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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-09 (Saturday)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 02:27:07 -0000 (UTC)
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Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>On 3/12/24 6:37 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>>On 3/12/24 11:12 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

>>>>>>. . . 

>>>>>Because SD looks like s**t on an 4k TV.
>>>>>IOW, not just the "FX", but *everything*!!

>>>>>I would have figured by 2002 that most everything was filming in HD -
>>>>>"...Jules Verne" had done so 3 years prior, and even shows on The WB,
>>>>>like "Babes of Prey" from the year previous, were filmed in HD.

>>>>>But I guess it took until c.2005 before everything, even stuff like
>>>>>"Tracker", was filmed in HD.

>>>>Huh?

>>>IOW, even through 2005, a lot of stuff was still filmed in SD. It wasn't
>>>until 2005 that even low-rent stuff like "Tracker" was filmed in HD.

>>Filmed in SD? That's not how it works. That's not how any of it works.

>>The premiere color Western television series for the late 1950s and
>>early 1960s were filmed on 35 mm film, just like movies. Some were in
>>Technicolor. Even b&w filmed tv series were filmed on 35 mm movie film.
 
>>By the mid to late '60s, they were using cheaper Eastman Color, which
>>faded after three years or so.

>>I just looked up Tracker: Super 16 mm Arriflex system. That's why it
>>looked like crap.

>>That's a method of television production that got worse.

>>I'm not sure what we count as the first tv series videoed, not filmed,
>>that didn't look like crap. Not The Secret Life of Jules Verne.

>"CSI"?

CSI was filmed for 16:9, I think from the beginning.

Various Panavision cameras, 35 mm film

>"Babes of Prey"?

4:3

Arricam ST and Arricam 435. Both are 35 mm film systems.

>I doubt either were "filmed", but both were HD.

Both were filmed. Ian, you're not listening.