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In my copy, the very last shot is actually of the EM on the backstage set looking at the camera, with an obviously stuffed Kermit puppet waving from the bannister over the exit. This fades out and the JHP logo is tacked on.

Ok, was this a Freudian slip? :)

It all depends on what's meant by 'uncut'. :) There are multiple 'official' edits of many of the shows out there, prepared by Henson. In some respects, it's like the difference between the original and SE releases of the Star Wars trilogy - the latest version (whatever that happens to be) is...

I've not seen a digital projection yet - I think the nearest cinema to me with the equipment is Manchester, and the new trilogy wasn't worth the trip. :) However, I would have thought that you'd still have some flicker there - it's still being scanned serially. Personally, I prefer the more...

If you'd like to drop me a line, I'll see what I can do. :)

Professionals take the view that if you want the film look, shoot on film! Progressive-scan video gives the frame rate without degrading the resolution, but film has somewhat different image characteristics anyway - video can tend to look rather 'flat' in comparison. I don't know what the...

Ok, thanks! Did they use the same shot of Zoot each year, or did that change as well?

Sorry, I misunderstood what you were getting at there. Video-to-film transfer is a whole 'nother story! It's a pretty effective way of 'filmising' video, and it's the format most pre-1970s TV has survived on, which leads so some interesting projects such as VidFIRE, which attempts to restore...

:D "This tape is absolutely crawling with Quad scratches! I'm gonna have to PaintShop them!" I spend way too much time staring at video monitors!

The 'film look' is nothing to do with the lower frame rate, it's caused by de-interlacing the picture. Interlaced video effectively runs at _50_ pictures per second (60 in the US), which gives it a much more fluid look than film. Deinterlacing 30fps video will make it look like film (at least...

So, can you confirm whether the 'ITC' version was attached to all 120 shows on their first broadcasts? VHS from that era is a tad hard to come by... :)

:) Slight misunderstanding! PAL and NTSC are analogue composite colour formats; nothing more, nothing less. The underlying system of lines and fps is entirely irrelevant. (Brazil, for example, uses a 525/30 system with PAL colour; no one seems to know why). The UK had a 625/25 system for...

Woo-hoo, my 100'th post! :D Which is entirely consistent with the 4% speedup :) Nope - no chance of that. If it was shot digitally, there's no such thing - PAL and NTSC are analogue formats. Digital is entirely different. Plus, I can spot NTSC artefacts at a hundred paces, and there's...

There's a ton of information available here: http://tv.cream.org/ 'Tickle On The Tum' was a Granada production IIRC (a friend of mine used to work there), from the early 80's, and starred Ralph 'Streets of London' McTell. Somewhere about I've got an outtakes reel featuring (amongst...

Yeah, I was trying to avoid saying that he was wrong :) Maybe a typo - 'UK' instead of 'US'? Luke? The UK broadcast definitely runs to slightly over 84 minutes 43 seconds.

Hey hey hey! Yous guys beatin' up on my servant? Right... Throws down gauntlet, narrowly missing own foot.

If the UK transmission is 85 minutes and the US one 88, it's nothing more than the standard 4% speedup. No extra footage on either side of the pond :)

The film is pan&scan, and apparently cut, BTW.

Well, I hope it wasn't his own hair! :D

Sounds like a Macrovision thing to me. Are you running the signal through anything else before it reaches your TV?