On Mon, 15 Apr 91 10:24:00 +1200 <[log in to unmask]> said: >Another interesting associative distinction between film and video arises >from the fact that for a long time video was used only for studio-shot >sequences, while location work was entirely on film. Old BBC series like _Z >-Cars_ and _Softly, Softly_, familiar to British tele viewer in the '60s >and '70s, cut unabashedly from videod interiors to filmed exteriors. >As the character exited and emerged into the street, the image definition >and sound quality changed radically. The interiors were always clearly sets >; while the exteriors were shot in the mean streets of Birmingham or >Stepney. Oddly, no one noticed. > Monty Python did a gag basedon this difference. I'm having trouble remembering the particulars, but as I recall it starts with a bunch of men in some sort of a meeting inside (shot in video). One of them--Eric Idle or Michael Palin, I believe--looks outside the door. Cut to exterior shot (in FILM) of him looking out the door. He yelps. Cut back to interior (in video): he spreads the alarm to the rest of the group that "it's FILM out there!" Pandemonium ensues. ---------- i can't go on . . . i really can't go on i swear i can't go on so i guess i'll get up and go on --Dory Previn ---------- | | Bitnet : JBUTLER@UA1VM | | Jeremy G. Butler - - - - - - - - - - | Internet : [log in to unmask] | | | GEnie : J.BUTLER27 | | | | Telecommunication & Film Dept * The University of Alabama * Tuscaloosa |