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I recall, the earlier series used quite a bit of Shostakovich and maybe some Carl Nielson. (Can that be right?) Music of that quality is just too powerful – it distracts from what’s going on in the story rather than enhancing it.
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Scott Filderman via Afamilyatwar-list<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, April 7, 2018 9:41 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> afamilyatwar-list@baylor.edu; William Murphy <lobsanghoskins@yahoo.com>; Brian Renforth <renforthb@live.co.uk><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Afamilyatwar-list] Tech Query<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A wonderful reply! The Onedin Line honestly plays now in 2018 like a major MGM movie every week, except it’s 40+-year-old series television. Enormous respect to you and your coworkers for such splendid effort! Every time I look at what
I consider a Work of Art, I think...the WORK is what makes it Art! Those French unicorn tapestries weren’t machine-made! <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="margin-top:0in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#715FFA">On Saturday, April 7, 2018, 11:28 AM, William Murphy via Afamilyatwar-list <<a href="mailto:afamilyatwar-list@baylor.edu">afamilyatwar-list@baylor.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">I worked on the last two series of The Onedin Line (music) in 1979-80, and was present at all the studio recording sessions. Studio noise
and "funnies" creeping into shot were persistent problems. Absolutely everybody, regardless of function or position, was encouraged to call "boom in shot" or anything else appropriate if they saw something; it gave me a tendency to keep one eye fixed on the
top of the frame that I have never lost. A particularly annoying noise was cable swish from the cameras, which then trailed enormous thick cables behind them; talkback leak was another one. Worst of all, however, were the directors who would merrily chirp
"we'll get it out in the mix" when something was pointed out, rather than re-shooting. This meant that sometimes literally hours of dubbing time would be lost trying to lose (genuine example) "What's on your sandwich?" between two lines of script. We once
spent nearly two hours trying to repair a non-period plastic "clunk" when James Onedin plonked a plastic decanter down on a table, with me and the director (the wonderful, much-lamented Gerald Blake) Foleying around with a real glass decanter as the scene
came around, and around, and around ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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via Afamilyatwar-list <<a href="mailto:afamilyatwar-list@baylor.edu">afamilyatwar-list@baylor.edu</a>><br>
<b>To:</b> "<a href="mailto:afamilyatwar-list@baylor.edu">afamilyatwar-list@baylor.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:afamilyatwar-list@baylor.edu">afamilyatwar-list@baylor.edu</a>>; Scott Filderman <<a href="mailto:scottfilderman@yahoo.com">scottfilderman@yahoo.com</a>>
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<b id="yiv0981922707yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1523111631504_33670">Sent:</b> Saturday, April 7, 2018 8:24 AM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Afamilyatwar-list] Tech Query<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I've just had a look. There a shadow, a tapping sound then part of the rug flips over, probably unnoticed by the two actors and no doubt
the majority of viewers, myself included! It's what makes older television programmes enjoyable, the work that went into them in addition to excellent acting. In general they're like outstanding theatre performances' preserved on tape with added filmed sequences.
It was magic. Modern Tele looks artificial and diluted in comparison.<br>
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I've noticed while the picture quality on most scenes is stunning, on a few more distant scenes there's colour fringing not unlike an old colour TV set that hadn't been converged properly (separate Red, Green and Blue images converged together, then setting
up the grey scale to give equal emission of the three guns to produce a perfect black and white image. This is before adding the actual colour information!).
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You've probably noticed the Granada logo differs in size too. Basically this was achieved by pointing the camera at a card!
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On a later black and white episode of Thames TV's, "Special Branch" this was clearly made using colour equipment and VT machine. One of the cameras gave a slight green tint to the whites, the other mauve!<br>
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Reading the Doctor Who restoration team's blog, although their work on the older black and white episodes are wonderful I became concerned by reading about the removal of production flaws such as an, "Occasional cough" from a lighting technician on their "restored"
versions of surviving 2" masters' of later stories. I've personally never heard these production flaws so they must have very sensitive hearing. To "correct" these is interfering with history in my view. However, my interest in Doctor Who declined rapidly
following the first Jon Pertwee season so I'm unlikely to buy them anyway.<br>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:afamilyatwar-list@baylor.edu" target="_blank">Scott Filderman via Afamilyatwar-list</a></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Sent:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">I tend to be sensitive to such production glitches as boom shadows, booms dripping into the frame, inadequate lens focusing, rips, tears, bad edits.
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and I thought it was a cat, perhaps playing. But no: it appears to be a long “something” with its right-hand end flipping up, and it makes a slight slapping sound. It lasts for just a few seconds. It has nothing to do with the foreground scene; nothing is
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