BBC TV (England) is re-running Thunderbirds on digitally re-mastered film. The
last episode shown was the episode with the bomb in the atomic-powered airliner. |
"Anthony Appleyard" wrote:
> BBC TV (England) is re-running Thunderbirds on digitally re-mastered > film. The last episode shown was the episode with the bomb in the > atomic-powered airliner. > That's the very first episode if I remember correctly. Did the remastering make a difference? Did they touch over the strings, or add any sound effects? I ask partly because they might do this to UFO one day! James |
James writes:
>That's the very first episode if I remember correctly. Did the >remastering make a difference? Did they touch over the strings, >or add any sound effects? > >I ask partly because they might do this to UFO one day! Gerry Anderson is online at this very moment answering questions from fans, and it says that they did not touch over the strings, because it would be too expensive. However, Gerry would have preferred it if they did! There's also a question about UFO, where someone asked if Gerry ever thought of doing an in-joke where they'd do a close-up of a puppet hand... :-) To view the transcript or ask a question, go to: http://193.131.13.238/thunderbirds/online_intro.php -- Marc Martin, [hidden email] |
Marc Martin wrote:
> To view the transcript or ask a question, go to: > > http://193.131.13.238/thunderbirds/online_intro.php > Thanks Marc! I note that Gerry says that his favourite actor in any of the series was Ed Bishop, in UFO, though he declines to say why. Anyway, nice to know .. James |
BTW, here is an e-mail I got from Theo de Klerk, a Thunderbirds fan
who wasn't very impressed with what Carlton has created with their "remastered" Thunderbirds: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Theo de Klerk Subject: Thunderbirds Well, I've seen it. The new Thunderbirds. And I'm not impressed. Below some of my impressions - feel free to quote them in your web sites if you want to... The soundtrack, as I feared, has some additional sounds superimposed on the original sixties sound, but of a sound colour different from the original and therefore mostly an immediate give-away as being "added on". The Thunderbirds and the mobile carriers have additional whistling and rumbling sounds added respectively, no doubt to create a surround sound effect. The trees of TB2's launchpad make an additional noise as do the ground door that open behind TB2 when it is ready for launch. The good thing of the sound is a crisp dialogue - no tape noise in the background. Added together, at best you can attempt not to hear the additional noises and fake stereo/surround effects. At worst you wished there was an opportunity to switch back to the sixties-only soundtrack. No doubt this option will fail on the DVDs that are about to be published. The picture - in general the colours are well saturised, but how they managed to produce some vertical cable scratches in the picture, I'll never know. The colour balance is also not very consistent: between different shots the colour of the mobile control of Scott Tracy for example, does change in various shades of red to brown. The wires are still there and so are the cigarettes - the image itself was thankfully not touched. Overall, the money spent on the restoration of Thunderbirds is money wasted. Except for the crispier dialogue track and slightly better colours (than the laserdiscs but no better than the BBC broadcasts in the nineties put to an A/B comparison), the series would have been better off if shown straight from the original prints with no effects or repairs added. I seriously have to think about whether I want to buy those DVDs. Theo --------------------------------------------------------------------------- So I guess we should really hope that Carlton leaves UFO alone... :-/ -- Marc Martin, [hidden email] |
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> >remastering make a difference? Did they touch over the strings, > >or add any sound effects? > > > >I ask partly because they might do this to UFO one day! > > Gerry Anderson is online at this very moment answering questions from > fans, and it says that they did not touch over the strings, because > it would be too expensive. However, Gerry would have preferred it if > they did! Oh was he? Coo! That was nice!!!! > > There's also a question about UFO, where someone asked if Gerry ever > thought of doing an in-joke where they'd do a close-up of a puppet > hand... :-) Heh heh > > To view the transcript or ask a question, go to: > > http://193.131.13.238/thunderbirds/online_intro.php > Thanks Marc! Sheila Still UFO Crazy crazy crazy crrraaazzzzy! |
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> To view the transcript or ask a question, go to: > > http://193.131.13.238/thunderbirds/online_intro.php I posted a message but cannot see if I had a reply as this page is now "not found" :-( Anyone else had the same result? Do you think the page will come back? Sheila Still UFO Crazy crazy crazy crrraaazzzzy! |
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