"Captain N #7" - Original Camera Negative Cuts [35mm Film Scan]
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MERRY CHRISTMAS!! This is a 35mm film scan from a random collection of negative film cuts labelled as "Captain N #7". Most, if not all, footage on this roll is from "The Big Game" (Season 2, Episode 5), but all of the production camera markers say "CN#7", so that's what we're keeping as the title of this video as well.
This is not a fully edited and finished film, as the actual show was edited on videotape, but rather a 35mm negative work film intended for use with telecine/tape editing. It contains editing instructions and informational cards for scenes. It does not include thr full episode, so it cannot be used for a complete HD reconstruction. Shots vary in quality due to seemingly inconsistent photography. A minor amount of restoration was done aside from color grading (as negatives are not color timed, unlike a print) but the footage is mostly as-is.
Audio was synced from the DVD release as best as was reasonable, but there is extra footage and there are differences in frame counts between the two sources. Because of this, there are gaps and cuts in the audio sync and it could not be fully perfected.
This will also be available to the public for archival purposes in Prores on Archive.org (without audio).
Color grading: Quazza
Audio Sync: EPho3nix
QC: Tanks
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I never get tired of seeing cel animation so pristine and crystal clear!
Even when it's low budget and kinda scuffed, it's always so mesmerising to me to see the sketchiness of the lines and the cel shadows.
2 years ago I bought Disney plus, thinking that's what I was going to get. And I'm not sure, but I was thinking they upscaled rather than rescanned. I wanted to see all the pristine detail... but instead all their movies look like they were from yesterday now.
@MLaker221 when it comes to streaming services, it depends on which movie, which show and if they still have the original reels
@@MLaker221 sword in the stone is finally watchable
@@MLaker221 At least it isn't as bad as some of their 90's cartoons. Some of them will look alright, but some just look like the same lousy old VHS transfers they released on DVD.
I'd love to see some behind the scenes videos of the scanning process.
Now THAT would be interesting!!
it's absolutely amazing to see SOME surviving piece of material for ANY of DiC's shows. If I'm not mistaken it's only this and the terrible, overexposed restoration of the real ghostbusters pilot that have surfaced, which is a shame because it's always a pleasure to see old scuffed tv animation in HD. it's only a shame that they cheapened out on editing/mastering because I'm pretty sure people would remember these shows more fondly and appreciate them more if they were in actual good quality.
This is what you call a Christmas treat. You guys are the real heroes of animation preservation. Keep up the amazing work and God bless.
The guy that found that Ghostbusters pilot is a real asshole too.
to my understanding film elements for inspector gadget were found, but only one episode was released in some convoluted way with an nft tie-in.
@@ShermleyCollege hahaha woaw
that fucking sucks...
@@aquelescaraaaaaaaaaa i suspect film elements still exist on dic's oldest shows. i have seen a screenshot of the inspector gadget remaster and it's on par with this. no idea why they feel the need to release them that way though. progress seems secretive and slow.
ive also talked with someone before who's run across some 16mm prints of an early dic show: kidd video.
theatrical films exist as 35mm prints, of course. heathcliff was hard matted to widescreen though.
Merry CUT BACK TO SC CUT and a Happy CUT OUT THESE FRAMES to you too, Kineko Video!
This is much better than the Betacam scan on some cartoons where there are de-interlace errors and the frame rate doesn't quite match up right.
Even before this find, this was definitely one of the better-animated episodes of this show.
True, though there's a few odd moments like cels that appear to float a bit above the background causing shadows like at 7:48.
I never liked how this episode randomly threw in that stupid "You're automatically going to forget the most crucial part of your lifetime and the closest friends you will ever have when you go home," trope. Way to throw a random downer that we didn't need to think about.
That is annoying when they pull that shit.
I feel like I've never previously fully allowed myself to appreciate that they had Dr. Wily walking around in a pair of Chuck Taylors in this series
I'm just amazed that something like this wound up in someone's hands. Now I'm wondering what happened to the other camera negatives. This is an interesting find! Shame it doesn't have all the footage needed to restore this episode.
This is an absolutely amazing find. If only all the film negatives had been preserved of shows from this era; so many shows that were finished on tape are now forever locked at 480i 😥
True. They never had the digital foresight.
Reminded Aeon Flux got that treatment later on DVD.
I remember seeing a "CUT OUT THESE FRAMES" mistakenly left in in a Batman: The Animated Series episode on Blu-Ray. I don't remember which episode but it was in a closeup of a fireplace.
I'm sure many cartoons made during this time did this. Production slates to help the editors in assembling these shots. I recall a Garfield & Friends episode where a "Cut Film" slate was seen in one frame of a U.S. Acres cartoon.
@@ChristopherSobieniakWhat episode of Garfield and Friends?
@@BluestarTBA It was the US Acres cartoon "Sleepytime Pig" where a sandman tried to put Orson to sleep despite Roy waking him up. In a particular moment, Lanolin brings in sheep in a conga line and that's where the frame happens.
I didn't realize that Sleepytime Pig had a "CUT OUT" animation error, However, the "CUT OUT" frame was removed in the remastered version
@@BluestarTBA Well, nice they did that, I only ever knew it this way since '89.
'Look me up when you get back'. Dang, phonebooks is soo last decade, now that I think about it.
Imagining how Super Mario Super Show and SatAM would look if they were foind like this
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
What the hell, it looks like an anime from the 80’s with a weird art style in HD. I had completely given up that any of these shows would ever be seen in high quality ever.
DiC was known for aping the anime look. Check out "Beverly Hills Teens".
This is insane!!
I know this channel usually does anime and some trailers (always excellent), but to see Western animation like this is crazy! I knew film was somehow involved for TV animation of the time, but I wouldn’t have known the majority of production was in video!
And in 35mm? I figured it’d be 16mm given its cost and size. A bit hefty of a format for a cheap throwaway Saturday morning cartoon. 😂
That's what they did, before "digital ink & paint" became the new hotness in the 90's and studios moved to that so editing film negatives, let alone shooting on cels became a memory.
very nice upload, hopefully you got more
Where did you get this original film's negative cuts?
I would like to see Captain N remastered on Blu-Ray release.
Oh my gosh, this was my favorite episode as a kid! It didn't hurt that i was obsessed with Mega Man at the time, Mega Man 3 wasn't even out yet! I've never seen this episode look this good before!
Amazing! This is so cool seeing this!
I always liked cel animated drafts if cartoons. If you can pause on the date, it says October 13, 1990; the day where these shots were made.
I really do appreciate the negative you guys got, though it's a shame considering most 80's and 90's versions of SMC's (Saturday morning cartoons) we're edited by videotape via telesync and most of these negatives we're hard to find.
I don't think that's the date these were shot... The episode itself aired on NBC on October 6th, 1990 (one week before).
More likely, it said October 13th because that's when the episode was originally projected to air, but after these shots were done, either the NBC fall schedule shifted a week earlier, someone changed their minds on the episode order for season 2, or another episode was pushed back due to production issues.
This is the closest to have a "BD" release for the show.
As-is, it’s like some type of avant-garde CZcams Poop. I love it ❤
finally, simon belmont in hd
Amazing!
7:28 Kid Icarus finally fulfills his namesake
What a freaking mess, imagine editing this with all these random instructions.
That was what they did. I'm sure they did edits on video itself rather than film at this point.
I wish we could have have a complete series of "Captain N: The Game Master" on Blu-ray but with restored versions from original camera negative cuts.
In a perfect world, that would be nice.
@@ChristopherSobieniak of course it would.
*CUT OUT
these
FRAMES*
This is amazing... and also encouraging that maybe some of the source material exists for Captain N and the Super Mario series. They need to be remastered and put out on blu-ray. PS: I'm assembling the pieces of the above clip but the episode is 22 minutes long. That means this is only reel 1 of 2. If you or anyone has the missing parts, I'll gladly put in the time to put the whole thing together and clean it up.
As mentioned in the description, this was never meant to be a completed, final assembly. The show was edited on videotape, and this was used to transfer the footage to video for editing. That's why all the scenes here are out of order, some are outtakes, some are repeated, and there are some gaps. There is no "reel 2" the way you're implying. Because of this production method and because all original materials like this cannot be easily located, scanned, reassembled, and edited all over again, it is currently not possible to do a full, native HD restoration of this show. If one of the original negatives somehow fell into our hands, that must mean they could be scattered further all over the place, so there's little hope all can be recovered for such an undertaking.
@@KinekoVideo The real issue here is finding all the negs. But editing them to a new DI isn't the real hard job, is it?
Actually.. seems to me that finding aaaalll the negs for the entire series would be the hardest part, but editing these negs again also seems hard as well. Specially if all negs would be like this. It'd be basically a whole new post production.. redoing the episodes again
@@javieralbadalejo6354 I love doing that stuff. I rebuilt DTV Monster Hits from HD and AI upscaled elements and loved the experience. czcams.com/video/uEkshjonCKE/video.htmlsi=CbOKQFMl5kPv4H6x I could do this full time.
@@KinekoVideo I understand. Thank you for the reply.
I wonder what Super Mario World looks like in it’s 35mm print.
Captain N, the Sexually Confused Yet Physically and Emotionally Open Minded Master.
4k scan for a blueray release!🥳
Let's hope that a restoration of the episode will be made
now we need is ruby spears mega man
Wow
id love to know what dumpster you guys fished this out of. (im guessing it was included in a bulk of other stuff) drop dead gorgeous.
This is different to say the least, Through I guess behind the scenes will be more rough then the actual content
"Workprints" are the same way.
i'll never understand why american cartoons had to move to editing on video tape so early, and then the film reels just gone abandoned as if it has no purpose at all. it makes me sad.
Says a lot that we got into film-to-tape transfers early on in the 80's when Japan didn't even see it as a thing they had to do for another decade.
8:28 jumpscare
Any other cartoons that mistakenly left a cut out these frames slate
Looks amazing! Thanks for preserving this material.
Is this normal for this kind of show to use 35mm film instead of 16mm?
Yes, it was more common for American animated shows to be shot on 35mm than anime ones, especially in this era of videotape editing.
Very interesting! What about anime from this era? Was videotape editing also common in Japan?
@thiagoalves7904 Not until the 90s. Around this time the vast majority of TV anime was shot on 16mm and still completely edited on film.
@@KinekoVideoHowever The hand drawn animated Sanrio OVAs from 1989-1994 used 35mm film instead of 16mm, i think
Did the audio had to be sped up?
I'm surprised at how good this show actually looks when upscaled and remastered
This is not upscaled. It is a native 4K film scan from original 35mm film materials.
You have the complete series?
No
3:16 Simon
Would it be possible to reconstruct the entire episode using the HD footage and the SD footage?
you could, but it would be a lot of work for less than half an episode's worth of HD footage looking very mismatched with the majority SD footage.
@@joethemanager1 I mean yeah the quality may be jarring but the cobbled footage will be the closest to an HD/original copy
@@ariverbytheseaIt would. I'm sure it would be easy assembling the necessary cuts needing to build on a timeline to the finished audio.
Captain N BD set when?
Next is Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater 1987 [35mm Film Scan]
one of the worst shows ever
True.