Sparkling BBC Color 1965

[NewVista]

Wonder why picture is letterboxed to Cinemascope? Yet still amazing

Maybe EMI Cameras?

This DJ that intros in news recently for latent scandals w/ teens at the time?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUByCFkm9EI

[Dave A]

The host is the late Jimmy Savile...the BBC's in-house pedophile. He is creepy.

The series...there are 8 of them...are film.

http://www.ovguide.com/pop-gear-9202...000000057b99ab

Nothing that wide in the mid-60's analog days. The framing is correct for what you see.

As an old studio tv guy, the lighting is pure tv studio lighting techniques but shot on film which can trick you.

If it was letterboxed later there would have been all kinds of excess framing above and below for air in 1965 4x3.

[W3XWT]

Billie Davis' "Watcha Gonna Do" reminds me so much of the "torch" singing of the late Julie London

Excellent video...

And, yes... he's the D.J.

[Eric H]

It's on the IMDB, 35mm Techniscope, 2.35:1 Aspect Ratio so the video is correct, still it looks amazing, great music also.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237588/technical
Looks like the music is lip synced though, you can always tell when what they are singing matches the hit record version exactly, live versions never do.

[Sandy G]

Jimmy Saville REALLY looks "Eeeee-Uwww !" knowing what we know now...Makes yr skin crawl. But there was also an EXCELLENT color production from right around the same time of the Animals singing their '64 hit, "House of the Rising Sun". Eric Burdon looks especially menacing & sinister, but in an ENTIRELY different way than Saville..

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by Eric H

It's on the IMDB, 35mm Techniscope, 2.35:1 Aspect Ratio so the video is correct, still it looks amazing, great music also.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237588/technical
Looks like the music is lip synced though, you can always tell when what they are singing matches the hit record version exactly, live versions never do.

This explains a lot - looks like film transfered much later on digital with wideband chroma - no color smear that you would see with analog, perfect transient response, etc.

The lighting and use of multiple cameras is video style though, as stated.

Use of multiple film cameras for producing TV shows was pioneered by I Love Lucy (in black and white) - resulting in the availability of high quality syndication copies up to the present day.

[NewVista]

OK , I connected the DJ's BBC career with this production but 35mm film would explain technical superiority and absence of registration errors!

This is a great archive. Billy Davis, what a talent as well as The Nashville Teens, like the piano improv.

[daro]

Originally Posted by NewVista

OK , I connected the DJ's BBC career with this production but 35mm film would explain technical superiority and absence of registration errors!

This is a great archive. Billy Davis, what a talent as well as The Nashville Teens, like the piano improv.

I didn't realise that Nashville Teens was actually a British group & I always thought that they were from the US.

The quality is superb of that video.

[NewVista]

Originally Posted by daro

Nashville Teens was actually a British
.

Just checked out orig version by song author (slower, no piano)

[Penthode]

The BBC in 1965 was still NTSC in preparation for the launch of colour in 1967. (The EMI 2001 camera was only available I believe from about 1966).

Also, BBC production in those days was primarily film. The move to video production was just beginning and in the late '60's and early '70's was a mix of film (for outside shots) and video (in the studio).

This presentation starring the BBC's resident sexual pervert looks as if it was fully produced on film.