the MAKING of "Thunderbirds Are Go" - 1966 - HD stereo
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- čas přidán 2. 02. 2012
- This was Gerry Anderson's finest hour. But sadly, the World was not READY for a TV Spinoff - and despite the movie being made in colour (UK TV was still black and white in '66) and scope (all TV was in 4:3) after a stellar premiere, the movie BOMBED in the sticks. And after that, it was all downhill for poor Gerry. Lew Grade dumped him. And a messy divorce from Sylvia didn't help. While he has continued to head up projects, NOTHING has ever come close to THIS... [update: Gerry Anderson - RIP]
- Krátké a kreslené filmy
RIP. Thanks for so many years of entertainment and wonder.
Thanks for putting this together kromedome87. When the movie fist came out, my family and myself went to see it at a drive-in. My father really "loved" drive-ins. I wound up on the roof of the station wagon. I was about eight. It was a really "fab" night. What wonderful things we grew up on.
Thank you Gerry Anderson from the bottom of my heart. RIP Travel well!!!
ASTOUNDING production! ... absolutely BLOWN AWAY by it!
I remember when Thunderbirds are Go! first came out a couple of my friends would come to the house so we could watch it at 0800 on Saturday mornings. We were quite enthusiastic. Funny, during the week for school, 8 always seemed to come too early and we weren't quite as enthusiastic.
Cool video & The round house on Tracy Island look like TB5
p.s. There is a compromise, which is being done more and more, these days. You deliberately delay the fixing, until most of the colour drains out - THEN fix it. It's still colour - but RESEMBLES B&W.
Again, digital can do that, too.
Every episode of the "Thunderbird" series (as was "Stingray before that) was shot in colo(u)r, even though British TV was still in black-and-white, for benefit of sale to the U.S., where colo(u) TV was growing.
By 1967, with the exception of some old movies and reruns, American TV had completely gone to colo(u)r. A black=-and-white "Thunderbirds" series would never have made it to American television. Stations would say "Black and White? No Way! We ain't pickin' it up!".
At it's release Thunderbirds got a nonchalant reception from the 3 major TV companies in the US and transmissions were sparse and doubt if the full series was shown there at the time? The first country to transmit it was the Netherlands. Syndication in the US came sometime later. Color was more of interest to Japan(who embraced the show) and were starting a color service.Lew Grade recognised children's TV always had legs and could run and run passing onto to the next generation and so on - hence another reason it was made in colour.
Dose anyone know what "FAB" stands for?
These days, B&W is almost DEAD. People don't like it, thinking it is CHEAP - despite the fact that being now SPECIALIST, it's actually MORE EXPENSIVE! Furthermore, since release prints are made locally - and few labs can DO B&W - most B&W films are shot in colour, then reduced to B&W - then printed onto colour stock.
Thus the powerful contrasts and pin-sharp definition B&W afforded are GONE. Of course, digital projection may change all that, but so far it's still to become the standard.