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Colour Versions of 'De Vrijbrief'

posted 14 years ago by Peter-5000
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Hi to all Floris Fans !

I still have a book of the "De Vrijbrief" episode which contains colour photos. When I bought the Video tapes of this series (years ago) I expected the the series to be in colour too - not so lucky. Later when I bought the DVDs (cardboard version) of the series I was told that the colour prints of the series had been lost during a fire. Does anyone know whether this is true ?
Since we only had black and white at home, I don't know whether it was ever broadcast in colour.

[–] couzijn 11 years ago

It is a good question. The tv broadcast was in black and white, the DVD release is in black and white. But all other Floris merchandise has colour pictures all over. The three famous 'Floris books' from 1969 (the green, red, and orange one) have great colour pictures of all adventures. My complete (!) set of Floris collector's cards from 1969 has photo's of all episodes in colour.

So the series *was* actually shot in colour. Have these (Ampex?) recordings been destroyed, like so much other material from the 1960's and 1970's? Such a shame.

Michel Couzijn

[–] Uberhamster 11 years ago

Rubbish. I've never heard any reference to it originally being in colour.
Those cards must have been colour photos, or colourized photos. Similarly, b/w films from the '30s until the '50s have colour posters, sometimes with colourised pictures on them.

[–] couzijn 11 years ago

There are hundreds and hundreds of coloured Floris photo's around: in books, in magazines, in collector's sets (I own over a hundred of them). Must have been an awful lot of hand colouring. If the movies were actually shot in black-and-white, then they might have had one or more photographers on the spot who took color pictures.

[–] Uberhamster 11 years ago

they might have had one or more photographers on the spot who took color pictures

That's very likely it, I've also seen that with other programs before.
I wonder how it would look colourized, if they based it on the photos.

[–] garmtk 10 years ago

Must have been an awful lot of hand colouring. If the movies were actually shot in black-and-white, then they might have had one or more photographers on the spot who took color pictures.

We are not living in the middle ages any more; of course there were photographers around the spot who took colour pictures.

As camera-assistant of "Floris" I can confirm that the series has been shot in b/w, just before Dutch television made the change from black-and-white to colour.

[–] couzijn 9 years ago

Thanks for your response. So now we know that the series was actually shot in B/W. And that all of those hundreds of colour pictures around were taken by photographers - who happened to take the same shots as many of the B/W camera men around. Still rather unlikely (considering the number of colour photos that match particular film frames), but I will believe you.

[–] Uberhamster 11 years ago

Who told you that? It would have been in the documentary, but I don't remember ever reading or hearing such a thing?