"Hey, Mayberry friends. This is for the Mayberry "techies." There are at least two episodes which have scenes that are reversed or mirror images....There may be more, but how and why did this happen? I'm thinking maybe poor editing, but there was very little poor work in TAGS production. I'm sure someone has an idea, so help me out.<<<
Well, Larry, I'm no expert on these things, but I'll hazard a guess. As far as I know, the editing of film involved physically cutting the original film (to remove anything extraneous to the scene) and then splicing together the desired segments to create a new "whole" piece of film. So I would think that after a piece of film had been cut but before it was spliced to another piece, the strip of film was accidentally flipped over so that the emulsion side was up instead of down. That would have resulted in a scene appearing reversed on screen. (I can't think of any reason why this would have been done deliberately.) Then, I would assume that duplicate copies were made of the original film so that thereafter the reversal became permanent. Can anyone more knowledgeable verify this? Thelma Lou (Janet) _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
