videotape Vs film

I certainly do. 


Videotape gives the show (and all other shows recorded this way)
the look of a live stage play. Sort of like you'd see on a PBS opera/play.

When All In The Family in 1970/1971 became the 1st comedy to do this, most people associatd vid.-tape with the Network News and (again) PBS. So it was unique.

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Filming a TV series, makes it look more like a movie you'd go see in a theatre/cinema. Another good thing is,the quality in film lasts longer than vid.-tape.

With film,networks (if they wrre smart) saved the original negatives and
this later allowed for the restoration process to save many classic TV programs.

In NEWHART's case, I'm glad they made the change, Bob looked a bit "older"
on V. Tape and using film allows for sort of hiding that fact. It also makes the Stratford seem more liek a real place.

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I did. At first I didn't care for the videotaped episodes with Kirk and Leslie. The firs episodes I watched were in the filmed, Michael and Stephanie era so the 1st season episodes took a while for me to get used to. However, they have grown on me and they're some I really like such as "Shall We Gather at the River." I do think the decision to move from videotape to film was a wise one.

Found this quote on an old blog about this topic:

"First, with the start of the second season, the production format of the show changed from videotape to film. (Newhart preferred working on film, which allowed for a softer kind of comedy than the hard lighting of tape: tape, he says, is more appropriate for broad sketch comedy.)"
http://zvbxrpl.blogspot.com/2005/12/anatomy-of-re-tool-newhart.html

I never would have thought of something like that as a viewer, but it does make perfect sense.

Some really great episodes with Kirk are from that first season, but the filmed versions are visually so much better.

How do you not notice the difference? It's video v film. Thankfully they chose the latter.

I agree totally. I remember watching this as a child but never noticed things like that and didn't recall many things about the show like the character changes and film/video. Now seeing it in reruns I just came across some of the first 2 seasons and I thought it was from near the end of the series because like another poster said Bob looks a great deal older so I just assumed that it was a later season. I like the way the film looks to video, it offers a softer tone to the show.

George

Of course. A similar difference can be seen in the original Twilight Zone TV series. The videotaped episodes look and sound terrible, but the filmed ones look and sound great. Film requires the brain to smoothe out the natural graininess, which creates a softer, richer visual experience. And film audio is also better than videotape audio, which often sounds like it was recorded inside a large barrel.

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i am currently watching the first season.it seems fine to me.if you have good writers and actors (all in the family)the show will make it. film or video.