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Transparent Animal

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Has it occured to anyone that Animal seems transparent during the Muppet Show Theme in the opening and ending credits? Is he really transparent or am I just crazy?
 
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I believe TMS was shot on video rather than film. Older video cameras sometimes produced a "ghosting" effect from the way the image was processed, particularly in tube-based cameras.

In some cases, the transfer from PAL to NTSC produces a similar effect. Since the show was shot in England, they presumably shot in PAL. (I think it's a camera issue, though.)
 
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Somebody brought this up back when the first season DVD was released, and Was Once Ernie said somehting about it being a "burn" effect, or something like that, meaning that certain lighting could make things remain on-camera.
 
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I know exactly what you're talking about, and it's only on the first season, when I got the DVD I noticed that. In the third season when the ending gets changed the "transparency" effect disappears as the lighting is changed.
 
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