Simpsons - Some Echanted Evening outtakes

[nakak]

I finally bought the first season of the Simpsonson DVD and I saw the outtakes for "Some Echanted Evenings", which are snippets of unused animationsfrom that show. I believe they came out crap and the producers had the animators do it all over again.

I noticed that the picture quality was bad. It was scratchy, and the film transfer looked like they projected the film and used the video camera instead of a telecine. Not to mention, a timer on the top left corner of the screen.

Was that the only existing copy of the unused animations? Did they lost the original 16mm film of the scenes?

I admit, it was interesting seeing it though. And I thought the commentry was hilarious.

[Peter Paltridge]

How does a telecine work? I've never heard of such a thing....is it how they got film reels onto TV broadcasts before the invention of videotape? Probably, but how did it work?

Wow, I've been asking a lot of questions lately.

[nakak]

Telecine is when you transmit film reels (usually 16mm) to TV. This was before video tape was used. It is also used to transfer film to video.