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From: Roderick Stewart <rjfs@escapetime.myzen.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: the royal home movie archive
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Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 10:58:43 +0100
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On Wed, 1 Jun 2022 10:10:38 +0100, "NY" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:

>I wonder why the BBC chose to show some films zoomed out so you could see 
>the perforations and borders. A brief excerpt every so often reminds the 
>hard-of-thinking that this is archive material, but some films were shown 
>entirely with perfs, as opposed to just a few seconds at the beginning.

Sounds like another of those stylistic affectations that the director
thinks is "cool", or something. I really wish they wouldn't. A
television programme is supposed to be about its subject matter, not
about the technology.

Rod.