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25th Nov 2016, 12:26 pm | #21 |
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Re: The Crown on Netflix
Oh yes, a very classy job.
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26th Nov 2019, 10:43 pm | #22 |
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The Crown on Netflix - reprise
Watching the latest series of 'The Crown' on Netflix, plenty of vintage TV, with very impressive post production TV pictures displayed.
However, many are actually B&W sets displaying a colour picture, I wonder why, since they seem to have gone to a lot of trouble to make things as authentic as possible? |
26th Nov 2019, 11:36 pm | #23 |
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Re: The Crown on Netflix
I mentioned My dealings with the Netflix props buyer in this thread
https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...=96824&page=17 Post 326. I found the people I dealt with to be very keen to get things right . There has been a bit of a drift on the latest series but I think this is permissible as most viewers wouldn't notice. The sets I provided were unrestored and do appear working in the programme so I guess they were simulated pictures. The props buyer told me they prefer to buy the props where possible rather than hire them. She assured me they would either be kept for the future productions or sold when they were finished with them as I expressed a little concern about their fate once the filming had been completed... By all accounts they had been all over the country picking up various furniture and equipment it seems they had gone to a lot of trouble to be authentic. |
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Re: The Crown on Netflix - reprise
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30th Nov 2019, 4:16 pm | #25 |
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Re: The Crown on Netflix
I'm watching the latest series. One episode shows the Royal Family watching themselves in a TV documentary, in 1967. They are watching it in colour. I thought broadcasts were only black and white then?
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30th Nov 2019, 5:25 pm | #26 |
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Re: The Crown on Netflix
BBC2 began colour broadcasts in 1967, starting with the Wimbledon tennis championships. ITV and BBC1 began colour on 15th November 1969, when they changed over to 625 lines Pal colour on UHF.
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30th Nov 2019, 5:32 pm | #27 |
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Re: The Crown on Netflix
Were they supposedly watching Royal Family? That went out in 1969.
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30th Nov 2019, 11:21 pm | #28 |
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It said 1967 at the start of the episode, but it must have jumped ahead as, I would imagine, the documentary would have been shown on BBC 1, to reach more viewers. The royals were, according to the story, trying to appeal more to the general public. It didn't say what the documentary was called.
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30th Nov 2019, 11:39 pm | #29 |
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Re: The Crown on Netflix
It's also conceivable that something really important might have been simulcast on BBC2 to show what the 625 line colour service was capable of, and on BBC1 to reach as many viewers as possible including those with only 405 line sets.
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1st Dec 2019, 12:34 pm | #30 |
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It may have been just a bit of dramatic licence. The Wikipedia article claims it went out in the summer of 69 on BBC1 and ITV, being a co-production. That was a few months before the launch of colour on those channels. It may well have been re-shown on BBC2, or on BBC1/ITV after colour started, but I can't remember. I think it was shot on 16mm colour film.
The general consensus seems to have been that it was a bit of an embarrassment and a PR mistake, and it hasn't been shown on UK TV since 1972. |