You know, I was wondering why BUCK ROGERS on MeTV looked like it was shot on video. This is a technical thing?
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You know, I was wondering why BUCK ROGERS on MeTV looked like it was shot on video. This is a technical thing?
Yeah, increasing the frame rate from the 24fps of film to the 30fps of video makes it look more like video.
There's also a thing that many HDTVs do by default called motion-smoothing, which interpolates intermediate frames and makes even film look like 60fps video (the format the Hobbit movies were shot in). It's done for the sake of making sports look better on TV without the strobing you get with rapid camera moves, but it ruins the look of film, and filmmakers have come out in protest of the way TV manufacturers make it the default (you have to go into the settings menu to disable it).
I have on several occasions complained that some film I've seen looks terrible when motion-smoothed, and then up-rated* to 1080p on my HDTV. So many times a production I've been happy to see the directorial care toward lighting and such almost ruined by smoothing it out and brightening it with the motion-smoothing. There is a look to film that is very different from video.
In fact, I remember older episodes of Doctor Who or The Tomorrow People that were disconcerting because the interiors were shot on video and the exteriors on film. The shininess of the interiors clashed with the more natural appearance of the filmed exteriors.
*Or whatever it's called. I forgot the term.
In fact, I remember older episodes of Doctor Who or The Tomorrow People that were disconcerting because the interiors were shot on video and the exteriors on film. The shininess of the interiors clashed with the more natural appearance of the filmed exteriors.
*Or whatever it's called. I forgot the term.
I saw so much BBC-TV growing up that I got used to that practice. There's even a Monty Python sketch about it. "Gentlemen! I have bad news. This room is surrounded by film!"
I've always thought it's videotape images that look more natural, i.e. more like what you'd see with the naked eye (albeit with lower resolution). It's the subtle unnaturalness of film, the subliminally lower frame rate and graininess, that creates its distinctive and appealing look.
Upscaled.
Barry Russo as John Duke, Rudi Solari in Flight From The Final Demon, an episode of The Fugitive!
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Season 4 of Mission: Impossible has started in my 50th anniversary viewing lineup.
He looks like he's enjoying himself. It's a bit weird, though, that his new boss has the same first name as his old boss...he says it exactly the same!
He looks like he's enjoying himself. It's a bit weird, though, that his new boss has the same first name as his old boss...he says it exactly the same!
It was a pretty common name among TV leads -- see also Jim West and Jim Rockford, and probably quite a few others, not to mention a ton of Johns and Joes.
I've long felt that you'd swapped Jim Kirk and Jim West as infants and raised them in each other's times, they would've turned out just like each other. West was basically Kirk without the more enlightened 23rd-century education and values.
They don't all have sidekicks played by Leonard Nimoy in consecutive co-starring roles.
Thank you. I didn't want to beat myself up trying to remember it, or I wouldn't have made my post.
Of course not, but the point is that with so many series having lead characters named Jim, it's not statistically unlikely that Nimoy would've been cast in two of them in a row. It would've been far more surprising if, say, Jonathan Frakes's first role after TNG had been in a show whose lead character was named Jean-Luc.
Your point. Mine was the way that he said it.
Was there a reason to say it differently?
That's weird seeing John Colicos and Morgan Woodward together for some reason! 
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John Schuck as a long-haul truck driver with two wife's in different cities on the current episode of 'Movin' On' on the Decades TV marathon.
As an aside, I think Claude Akins is one of those missed opportunities to have been a guest star on TOS.
A Klingon is too obvious, but maybe some Starfleet officer.
As an aside, I think Claude Akins is one of those missed opportunities to have been a guest star on TOS.
A Klingon is too obvious, but maybe some Starfleet officer.
Ed Peck seems appropriately named for this gig...
That Girl, "Nobody Here But Us Chickens" (Oct. 9, 1969). That's Slim Pickens next to him as a Col. Sanders spoof.
That Girl, "Nobody Here But Us Chickens" (Oct. 9, 1969). That's Slim Pickens next to him as a Col. Sanders spoof.
Never saw the show, but in the clip Harvey shared below, it’s a convertible 'cuda. They are worth serious money these days
Yeah, Darts in season 2 and 3, then the 'Cudas seasons 4, 5 and 6 (I believe the same cars got an updated fascia every year after the convertibles were out of production). They abandoned drop tops for a Challenger in season 7, then back to GM with a Camaro for the final season.
Peggy drove a Simca for a few seasons, very rare to see on TV or in real life in the US.
Ed Peck, the only guy to play a Kirk after William Shatner in the seventies!!! 
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