Scanning and Restoring a 16mm Kinescope Film

Scanning and Restoring a 16mm Kinescope Film at Reflex Technologies

[@batterymakermarkii2654]

So nice to see Dinah Shore again...

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

About 15 years ago, the live sitcom The Goldbergs TV series was restored and depending on the quality of the kinnie, it had a "live" or at least a "videotape" look to it. This still looks like a film

[@jasonbeard4713]

I recently found a 16-millimeter kinnie of an episode not on the DVD set.

[@fromthesidelines]

In the 1956-'57 season, Dinah Shore appeared twice a week, 15 minutes- Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:30pm(et)- for Chevrolet on NBC. Once a month, she also did an hour-long "CHEVY SHOW". In the fall of '57, the quarter-hour series ended, as she continued the hour shows on a weekly basis (on Sundays), through 1961.

[@flashscanhd]

looks good, nice work

[@scottrogers2971]

Very nice

[@empinball4638]

Does your company offer a restoration of the "video look", restoring an interlaced 60 fields a second option? Some UK programs have done this, though it's probably easier given the different systems (they ran their telerecording cameras at 25 frames a second so they don't get all that horizontal noise for example).

[@tsuwaque]

Deinterlacing can be easily done at home

[@empinball4638]

@@tsuwaque It's more like REinterlacing. Taking one frame of film and changing it from looking like a kinescope into looking like videotape. I read that it could be done with off the shelf software and that was a decade or more ago, so I'm sure it could be done at home with a bit of skill.

[@goodiesguy]

@@empinball4638 It CAN be done if you know how to use AVISynth, but it depends on the quality of the source material.

[@rogerb5615]

A similar technique has been used to make Jackie Gleason's 1950s "Honeymooners" TV series look like it was taped today.

[@UNOwen1]

+ReflexFilmScanner; the output is beautiful. My question - and I'm NOT asking 'how', WHAT shows the (2:16) 'proprietary software application' do? Thanks.

[@d0r4em0n]

Which is better, 16mm or 35mm film?

[@sh-ig9fm]

35 mm is better cos it has grater quality 16 mm is smaller and I think cheaper

[@niknikktm]

@joquendoTV Say what???? How did you figure that? 35mm has more than twice the physical area with which to capture an image. I suppose by your logic then 8mm must be the best format and 70mm the worst??? I'm afraid you've got it bass ackwards.

[@404TVfr]

@@niknikktm bass ackwards. Can I keep that?

[@beamthedeer]

Objectively, 35MM offers the best picture quality (unless you start looking at 70MM and 15/70 IMAX), not to mention room for two digital soundtracks, but I personally prefer 16MM because it might not be quite as good as 35MM, but it still looks pretty decent, and the cameras aren't quite as big.