From: john porter (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Jul 02 2006 - 19:21:34 PDT
I love this tech history stuff!
Thanks.
--- Ken Bawcom <email suppressed> wrote:
> Ah, yes, the T.A.M.I. Show! I forgot about that one.
> According to the
> IMDb, it war recorded in "Electronovision." Is that
> the 50.8mm video
> tape of which you speak? According to the IMDb, 200
> Motels was on 16mm
> video tape. I do see even earlier listings for
> "Electronovision"
> releases, the first in 1964. Well, I did say "that I
> know of." I didn't
> remember any earlier video features, and didn't
> research it. TAMI was
> just a couple of years before I began to pay
> attention to such things.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken Bawcom
>
>
>
> Quoting Sam Wells <email suppressed>:
>
> >
> >> I also agree (who would disagree?) that HD is
> inferior to film in
> >> terms of how
> >> it captures light --- but it is far superior to
> "video" as it has
> >> been known,
> >> and in the hands of experienced cinematographers
> the results can be quite
> >> stunning.
> >
> > Yes but film can look good in the hands of inept
> cinematographers,
> > that's the problem ;-)
> >
> >>>> The first movie made on video (16mm videotape)
> and released to
> >>>> major theaters, that I know of was Frank
> Zappa's "200 Motels,"
> >
> > I don't know about first (what about the TAMI Show
> ?) but anyway, it
> > was "50.8mm" videotape.....
> >
> > -Sam
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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> <email suppressed>.
> >
> >
>
>
>
> "Those who would give up essential liberty
> to purchase a little temporary safety
> deserve neither liberty, nor safety."
> Benjamin Franklin 1775
>
> "I know that the hypnotized never lie... Do ya?"
> Pete Townshend 1971
>
>
>
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> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at
> <email suppressed>.
>
John Porter, Toronto, Canada
http://www.super8porter.ca/
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