CBS SPECIAL PRESENTATION--Remastered (or recreated), in HD

I don't know *WHO* is behind these, but they look and sound phenomenal. Use them to make home edits of the Christmas specials that we grew up with!

 

I concur, and us TV geeks are luckier for it.

 

Is it me, or do these all look exactly the same?

 

Now have him do the HBO "fly-thru" bumper.

Hey, HBO themselves actually put it up in HD on their channel. How cool is that?

 

It's kinda you, but you are forgiven. This guy went nuts and did them in every variation known to man. 4:3, 16:9, mono, stereo, film grain, GATE WEAVE! As Steve said...this guy had a LOT of time on his hands.

 

I wish someone could remaster the PBS logo from the early 1970s.

 

Well, thank God I'm forgiven! I'll be damned if I can tell any difference.

 

I couldn't either

 

I'm sure he was paid well for his work.

 

The HBO one I forgot about. Memories of a 6 year old watching movies with my parents and this would come on. Wow!!!

As for the CBS one, I have said it here before but every single time I see it I expect a slight jump in audio and a frozen pond to appear with the first chords of "Christmas Time Is Here" and animated children ice skating. Or newspapers with snowy winds blowing on them. Or snow flakes falling and Jimmy Durante starting to talk. That is the way I remember my Christmas TV viewing as a kid. I should use these to recreate like to OP said!

 

There are tons of these on YouTube, and I love watching them (yeah, I know, weird). They bring back great memories. As someone stated above, I'd also like to see a redo of the PBS logo.

 

Yep, and this one:

 

This was always a personal favorite for New Yorkers

 

This was always on when I came home from school.

 

Yes, that had real magic to it.

 

Wow, that is wacky. I think the look and feel is not quite the same as the original 1960s/1970s film version, I think because whoever did them didn't insert 3/2 pulldown in the 24-frame video image. But it's pretty close, as is the color. I also think the film weave is way too over-the-top.

Note that they grabbed the music clips from the Hawaii 5-0 soundtrack, which has composer/conductor Mort Stevens' music cues that made up this little fanfare. That was a very clever touch.

I'll say this: they got the fonts and kerning really, really close.

 

I think aside from people like you and me who are in the biz of TV/Film/Etc., I don't think 'civilians' would spot any difference. If I had to grade it? A solid "A", and on a charitable day an "A+".

As for the film weave...it's a cute touch. On original airchecks of it on YouTube, you can clearly see the weave when the CC bug is inserted over the original film. The film weaves, and the bug is rock solid steady.

 

For reference here, here is an original one, off the CBS broadcast master but obviously a couple gens down, and the youtube is slightly squeezed narrower. Just watch until 0:14

 

Yeah, but the 3/2 pulldown would've been easy to do. I wonder if a clean copy of the film still exists, and they couldn't just scan that and fix that up. There's something about digital titles vs. film titles where they are not quite the same, no matter what.

 

Maybe it's because it's so compressed, but the original definitely has more oomph for lack of a better term.

 

I recreated a take-off on the "CBS Special Presentation" for a project and the most time-consuming part of that was tracking down the Mort Stevens LP to get the snippets of music to edit together because I could only find the original in mono.

 

The Hawaii 5-0 soundtrack did come out on CD. That's one of the rare TV soundtracks of that era to actually use real cues from the session tapes used in the series itself, and not a re-recording.

It shows you how skilled a music editor can be in creating an entirely new piece -- in this case, a memorable stinger for a network TV logo -- from several unrelated pieces of music.

 

That gate weave looks wildly artificial...that said, I have no idea why you'd want those versions.

 

No, the slates let you know what's full-frame, what has film grain, what has gate weave, what's mono, what's stereo, and so on. This is very typical in the promo business, where you have dozens of almost-identical trailers and bumpers and promos that are almost identical, but not quite. The subtle differences can be very important to studio execs, network execs, clients.