TV/Movies Megathread

[HVC]

Lyonel Baratheon Is my favourite character

[mongers]

'Cronos' neat compact horror film, under 1hour 30 minutes too! 


Also 'Paris, Texas' - the child playing the eight year old steals every other scene from Harry Dean Stanton, which takes some doing.

And the BFI stream I watched was a superb piece of tele-cine, if that word is even applicable nowadays?

[Duque de Bragança]

And the BFI stream I watched was a superb piece of tele-cine, if that word is even applicable nowadays?

Well, movies are captured and digitised differently these days, but movies, not just television programs, still need to be transferred to home video and streaming.
I believe people say more often than not scanned (original camera negative was scanned at 2K/4K/8K whatever using Data/Tele/cine whatever name brand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine

More info than you probably need. 

[mongers]

And the BFI stream I watched was a superb piece of tele-cine, if that word is even applicable nowadays?

Well, movies are captured and digitised differently these days, but movies, not just television programs, still need to be transferred to home video and streaming.
I believe people say more often than not scanned (original camera negative was scanned at 2K/4K/8K whatever using Data/Tele/cine whatever name brand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine

More info than you probably need. 

Yes definitely enough. 

IIRC the French Air Force in 1940 had a prototype telecine system in a bomber, it took reconnaissance photos/film, processed it onboard and scanned it in order to transmit it to the ground.     

[celedhring]

Didn't early Soviet satellites also develop and telecine film onboard? I always thought it was amazing that they got that stuff to work in space.

[mongers]

Didn't early Soviet satellites also develop and telecine film onboard? I always thought it was amazing that they got that stuff to work in space.

Yeah, the 'Analogue' world was quite clever at times. 

[grumbler]

Didn't early Soviet satellites also develop and telecine film onboard? I always thought it was amazing that they got that stuff to work in space.

That produced very low-resolution images, though. To get higher resolution, satellites would drop film packages that were caught mid-air by airplanes.

[celedhring]

Why mid-air? They couldn't get them to land in a controlled area, I guess?

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

If I understand correctly, the capsule wasn't strong enough to survive landing on the ground.  It could survive landing in the water, though.