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Strange Production

posted 8 years ago by Toshi51
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This series appears to have been shot indoors with video yet the outdoor scenes seem to have been filmed in a grainy color film stock. It almost looks like Kodak 7242 16mm color newsreel film. The outdoor scenes may have been filmed in available light which would enhance grain.

Anyway, that aside, I enjoyed this production. Kenneth Moore always turns in a good performance.

I only wish there were captions for the hearing impaired or Americans who have trouble with some of the regional accents.

[–] Owlwise (1535) 4 months ago

The indoor video/outdoor film stock was the usual practice in British TY into the 70s. That's why the shows occasionally shot entirely on good film stock, like The Prisoner, still look so vivid & visually fresh today.

That said, I rather liked the video-for-indoor look of many British shows back then, which was almost like watching a play but shot from many angles. It gave a certain intimacy to such scenes.