[QuadList] Richmond Jazz Festival YouTube Clip

[Steve Burgess]

Great YouTube clip of The Animals, Chris (memories of my youth!) - but disappointing too as this was surely from 16mm as it has all the hallmarks of film (dirt, 25Hz temporal resolution) and no signs of being a kinescope/telerecording (no image orthicon artefacts, for example).

There are so many proponents of celluloid as a medium but I've always hoped that one day (maybe when we we've ditched interlace) humanity will finally shake off "the dirty window" on reality it offers.  Because there was nothing else for decades we became culturally accustomed to image instability, dirt and the lo-fi way it portrays motion.  The first two can be corrected with modern digital techniques but you can't recover the information thrown away by only taking 24 or 25 pictures a second; to deliberately apply this effect to video material for artistic effect has always struck me as a bit bonkers - and really annoys me when, having settled into watching a video-shot programme which has been given the film treatment, a late-edit drop-in shot with full motion resolution sticks out like a sore thumb.

In 50Hz territories at least we have been spared the horrors of 3:2 pull-down!

To me - as a kid, and now (in my 50s) - the magic of videotape is in its fidelity; so much of the allure of that YouTube clip of the RCA Pavilion from '65 is surely because it has full motion resolution.  I, for one, appreciate documentary producers who "go the extra mile" to source the video archive when a kinescope copy is more easily to hand - think the Cronkite announcement of JFK's death; video of it is out there but you'll often get the kinescope.

Steve

Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 08:22:29 +1000
From: "Chris Patten" <cfpatten at tpg.com.au>
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G'day 

I worked on the Intertel OB for the Richmond Jazz Festival in London in 1965, we attached the Gemini system to our Marconi MkIV cameras.  We were hired by the US program Shindig:

http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/Richmond-65.html

There are clips on Youtube, but they are from the videotape not the 16mm film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA3wXOKlddU

It was a great three day shoot.

Cheers

Chris Patten
Sydney
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