Another little YouTube find – the old BBC 2 Firecracker Ident, except every time a firecracker goes off the video suffers from VHS generation loss.
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Losslessly Joining JPEGs with JPEGTran
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The Introduction
On occasion, you may find that you need to join – or tile – two or more JPEG images into a single image and that you need to do so without the usual JPEG degradation that comes from saving an edited JPEG again and again and again. Fortunately, under some circumstances, there is a solution – JPEGTran from the Independent JPEG Group.
The Images
Our sample images are two tiles taken from The Map Project – in this case map Yorkshire Sheet CLXXIV.SW, a 1950s map of south-west York in the United Kingdom.
Aliens
Very true.
Coming This Summer…. McBain: The Movie
McBain: The Movie is a lost 80s action classic. What little footage remains has been spliced together below for your edification.
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Continue readingYorkshire’s Blake’s 7 Filming Locations
Visual Mutterings has quite a nice guide to Yorkshire’s Blake’s 7 filming locations. It sounds like an entirely successful trip!
Kubrickian Star Wars
From the chap who brought us 2001: A Space Odyssey – As directed by George Lucas a few months ago.
FANNY The Brave Dog (Lee Hardcastle)
A fun little 43 seconds exploring the idea of Uber for Zombie-killing.
Star Trek XII
So very true….
Death By Chair
Possibly my favourite ever Doctor Who death – the man-eating chair from 1971’s Terror of the Autons. It’s great fun with 70s Doctor Who remaining true to it’s nature – spending almost 30 seconds on inflating a plastic chair – and, as always, Roger Delgado remains the consummate professional through out.
