Dean and Frank Christmas

[Dave A]

A new copy of a 1967 Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Christmas special is floating around PBS as part of their usual fundraisers. Check your local listings. Some earlier songs are added so it is not a pure Christmas show. It is a restoration from DC Video. Dave Crosswaite has done a spectacular job and the estates are to be thanked for this. It's a Burbank TK-41 tape special with the cameras tuned up to the best. Black tuxedos are black. White shirts are white. The blue cyclorama with star sprinkles is pure blue. All color after that follows. No idea of the post processing that may have been done. No need to interpret Technicolor. Just go view the format roundies were made for. It's easy to see each camera in 4x3 with their corner and left side errors. Your roundie will fix that problem. It is my new roundie show. Lot's better than any DVD floating around. I have to try to edit it down to the show itself. 90 minutes on the PBS fundraising air. A few stills from the 1080i MPEG4 recording below. They are a bit flat compared to air.