Posted by Marc Martin on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Running-Time-of-episodes-tp1495437p1495467.html

>I knew I shouldn't have re-opened this debate... : ) If you go
>back and look at the ITC DVD forum where we were discussing this last
>year, you'll find some pictures of the labels from the original audio
>recordings for a few episodes that clearly show that the camera was
>running at 25fps.

Yes, but that was Space:1999... this is UFO... :-)

In a bit of good timing, I received the new issue of Fanderson's FAB
magazine, and they have an interview with the guy who built a lot of
the instrumentation you see in UFO. He also was the guy who solved
their video monitor filming problem. He backs up what Gerry Anderson
said -- they didn't do a thing to the film cameras on UFO -- instead,
they built a device to alter the refresh rate of the video monitors
so they match the cameras. It sounds like they used a rate of 48 hz
on the video monitors (twice that of a 24 fps film camera) instead
of the usual 50 hz.

Also, if Carlton doesn't want people to know who is doing the
remastering of their DVDs, someone should tell Fanderson -- in this
issue, they mention (more than once) which company did the transfers
for UFO and Captain Scarlet, and then go onto to point out how much
better these transfers are than the ones for Thunderbirds &
Space:1999...

Marc