1. Can anyone find a working link to Chris Weston interviewing Ian Kennedy - I'd like a nice quote for my new book
2. The Dan Dare aborted ATV series pushed chromatography (very early blue screen technology) a year later Captain Zep came out on BBC. Anyone else consider a) that this is what it would of looked like, or b) was this the same talent getting a series out once the license had expired?
TV chroma key (chromatography is a chemistry thing, IIRC) was used fairly frequently during Jon Pertwee's run on Doctor Who in the early 1970s, so the BBC had existing talent in that area. (Indeed, they had their own technical term for the process: Colour Separation Overlay)
(http://media.aintitcool.com/coolproduction/ckeditor_assets/pictures/4945/original/dinoshoot.png?1326474534)
And in those days, I'd imagine, you worked for the BBC or for ATV but not both.
thanks
Love the pic. i know its Dr Who but it looks like the Chewitts parody ad!
The BBC had developed and used it's own system. The commercial stations used a variation developed independently. My memory is hazy as to the differences between the two.
Prior to Captain Zep, budgetary challenges led to the Doctor Who production team attempting a story with many of it's backgrounds created using CSO. This was in the late seventies. It wasn't deemed a technical success.
I know Trout here on this board is a big fan of Ian's work, he may have a link/way in, maybe PM him as he's in the middle of moving to Canada so not about so much ::)
Those fine U.N.I.T types are about to give that tree and house a good blasting with their smg's ,alas missing the enormous plastic dinosaur in front of them. No wonder they always got fucking massacred.