1977 Phillies - 'Unfinished Business' - Enhanced & Color-Corrected - 1080p

Huge thanks to Rob Crimmins for posting this 16mm film on his KZbin channel 3 years ago. The film was completely red-shifted as you can see here -- • 1977 Phillies -- but after toiling with it for several hours in Da Vinci Resolve, I was able to bring it back to a much more normal look. I also denoised and sharpened it using Topaz. The film still isn't 'clean' by any means though - lots of scratches, specs, and skips that were inherent to the source. The original audio was out-of-sync which I've corrected. I also de-hissed it using Audacity. You can see before/after screenshots here as well -- imgbox.com/g/D...

[@teejaythedeejay1965]

John Facenda, NFL Films and baseball is the trifecta. Thanks Dave!

[@JD-fb1pp]

Is there any better narrator than John Facenda?

[@mattdon2164]

I absolutely love this! I never knew Stave Sabol, John Facenda and NFL Films did an MLB highlight film. Wow! Thank you, David. This is amazing!

[@surfshack2]

Great upload. Me and all my friends were huge Phillies fans as we lived about an hour away on the Jersey shore. I went to a half dozen games from 76-80. I remember the Yankees beat the Dodgers in the 77 World Series that year. The next year the Phils lost again to the Dodgers in the NLCS. It wasn’t until 80 that the Phillies went all the way. The NLCS against Houston was epic. Those were amazing times. Thanks for sharing 👍

[@romelovesdan]

This looks Sooooo much better! MLB missed a huge opportunity to have many of the better or upcoming teams to make more teams films and then, market them properly! Many that were made were never seen outside of the home market, and mostly at business gatherings to drum up ticket sales. Of course, the MLB season is long with multiple TV partners both local and national. NFL and its NFL Films organization was an easier league to document. I think NFL Films and the NFL Music played a HUGE part into NFL Football surpassing MLB in mass popularity. MLB should have at least done NL/ALCS documentary films like they did with All Star Games and World Series.

[@dantheman5745]

So true.

[@romelovesdan]

@@dantheman5745Thanks you. Your informed opinions always matter.

[@sonicboomg862]

Awesome keep those 70's & early 80's Phills videos coming.....great stuff.

[@henrymcallen5703]

Wow! This is such a nice surprise Dave. The Phillies teams of the mid 70’s were REAL good. Just couldn’t get past the NLCS. Team was loaded offensively. 1980 Phills won the whole thing but I always thought these teams were better.

[@davevolskysbackdoor5673]

Huge thanks to Rob Crimmins for posting this 16mm film on his KZbin channel 3 years ago. The film was completely red-shifted as you can see here -- kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKKyfaN5pcdngqc&t -- but after toiling with it for several hours in Da Vinci Resolve, I was able to bring it back to a much more normal look. I also denoised and sharpened it using Topaz. The film still isn't 'clean' by any means though - lots of scratches, specs, and skips that were inherent to the source. The original audio was out-of-sync which I've corrected. I also de-hissed it using Audacity. You can see before/after screenshots here as well -- imgbox.com/g/D7LtX6aWHp

[@dantheman5745]

Being a Reds fan, I didn't expect to get hooked on this. But here I am. What a blast from the past, from my personal Golden Age of baseball. It looks terrific, Dave. BTW, he wasn't one of the most prominent Phillies, but Tommy Hutton was a phenomenal hitter....as long as he was facing future Hall of Famers. A lifetime .248 hitter, against Tom Seaver, Ferguson Jenkins and Bob Gibson, Hutton hit .320 or better vs all of them. And 3 of his 22 career home runs came off of Tom Terrific. One of the more inexplicable baseball anomalies I've ever come across.

[@yankeechicken61]

Trying to capture an entire baseball season in 30 minutes! All the same, great job Dave.

[@rubenrivera1496]

Love these classic yearbooks

[@mxxjss]

No matter which team you root for these NFL Films productions on the 70s Phillies are great for any baseball fan.

[@topoftheapple8139]

this is awesome just for the John Facenda, The Voice of God, narration

[@chrisrose6014]

Closest thing we go to NFL Films was This Week In Baseball which was an excellent show!

[@romelovesdan]

Time to release the rest of the TWIB seasons streaming and DVD on demand!. We got the 1977 TWIB episodes on DVD years ago, then,.........

[@romelovesdan]

The 1977 Phillies were a great team....John Facenda narrating....However, my favorite part of this film, is to see some of the fantastic Pittsburgh Pirates uniform combinations. Weird the pivotal plays were damaged /edited out of the October 3 NLCS Game 3 the original "Black Friday".

[@mattdon2164]

I remember watching that Friday afternoon Game 3 live on tv in real time. I just could not believe what I was seeing. Manny Mota and Vic Davalio. I was 13 years old at the time and still see it as surreal.

[@romelovesdan]

@@mattdon2164 We followed via radio, until the last hour plus in out 7th graded Math class & lunch where a teacher had a TV...in LA with some Philadelphia transplants in my class. Wild swing of emotions back and forth. Looks like the out was made at first...still....

[@mattdon2164]

@@romelovesdan Yeah, it was an amazing turn of events. I thought Phils were going to close out the series and then….

[@jfayiii]

Excellent! I've never seen this before.

[@benjamin1383]

Mike Schmidt was bad ass

[@brianbachmeier34]

Excellent

[@Bruce12867]

Not a Phillies fan, but this is just plain awesome. I would have loved to see how NFL Films would have spun the Cleveland Indians teams of that era.

[@canesfan29]

I wish there was a list of videos that NFL Films did for other sports. I know they did a PGA championship video once

[@gustavsorensen9301]

If there had been an mlb films, like nfl films, I might actually like baseball

[@davevolskysbackdoor5673]

This is as close as you'll get I guess, since this was actually produced by NFL Films.

[@romelovesdan]

Absolutely! MLB missed a huge opportunity to have many of the better or upcoming teams to make more teams films and market them properly.

[@romelovesdan]

@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 The Sabols loved their Phitin' Phils as well...

[@wheelinthesky300]

Amazing footage quality. 1977's equivalent of High Definition. I may be wrong, but I think its some kind of super slo-mo 16mm film.

[@davevolskysbackdoor5673]

It was produced by NFL Films, who had been shooting that type of slo-mo footage since the mid-60's.

[@benjamin1383]

If had there been an nhl flims it would rival nfl flims

[@p44r]

At 25:50…….WHY did the Prates go away from the coolest uniform combinations of all time …9 different sets of black gold and white with or without pinstripes ..gold batting helmet black crown

[@domf1962]

Great team dam dodgers

[@p44r]

Wear these uniforms full time again ..the present Phillies P sucks

[@rickross199]

Funny title lol. They didn't finish any business until 1980.