wulbert
pfm Member
I was very struck by the comments below a You Tube video of Led Zeppelin backstage at Madison Square Garden in 1973. Posters were amazed at the "HD" quality of the (film) footage. They had trouble believing that image capture was that good 40 odd years ago. Comments like:
"The camera quality is insane"
"It feels kinda strange knowing that this vivid footage is from over 45 years ago Robert Plant and Jimmy Page were so young back then...
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIwAaVUZ-MCmteRudEL5k-g
"Not gonna lie, I like older HD cameras better than new ones. They just look so cool, I can’t describe it."
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR5LCz9tVZ0-vk6KsctSOIA
"This footage is from 46 years ago, but it looks like its from 2023"
It made me wonder if younger people today have lost the knowledge that celluloid film even existed and was capable of producing high quality images many decades ago?
I saw this effect when I showed my own kids the "Apollo 11" movie (shot on 70mm film). They refused to believe it was real at first. Could not understand how something that old could look so good. I think they see "old" digital video from the 90's or before; shot on phones, handycams, amateur video gear etc and just extrapolate backwards that any moving picture capture more than 15 years old must be grainy, fuzzy rubbish. It kind of annoys me for some reason.
How do they think the old, classic Hollywood films shown on TV were made?
"The camera quality is insane"
"It feels kinda strange knowing that this vivid footage is from over 45 years ago Robert Plant and Jimmy Page were so young back then...
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIwAaVUZ-MCmteRudEL5k-g
"Not gonna lie, I like older HD cameras better than new ones. They just look so cool, I can’t describe it."
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR5LCz9tVZ0-vk6KsctSOIA
"This footage is from 46 years ago, but it looks like its from 2023"
It made me wonder if younger people today have lost the knowledge that celluloid film even existed and was capable of producing high quality images many decades ago?
I saw this effect when I showed my own kids the "Apollo 11" movie (shot on 70mm film). They refused to believe it was real at first. Could not understand how something that old could look so good. I think they see "old" digital video from the 90's or before; shot on phones, handycams, amateur video gear etc and just extrapolate backwards that any moving picture capture more than 15 years old must be grainy, fuzzy rubbish. It kind of annoys me for some reason.
How do they think the old, classic Hollywood films shown on TV were made?