I had stopped posting the Little House caps because not enough were clicking on them anymore. It just didn't seem worth the time & effort for the little hits & response they were getting. Even more frustrating, is most just go to the last page of the gallery without bothering to check the previous 1 or 2 pages.
When I post a new set of pix, it's almost always more than 1 page long, so by skipping the previous pages, you're skipping more than half of all the new pix posted of the newest set. Most of the bigger, higher resolution, best pix are posted in the beginning of each set, so by only checking the last page of a gallery, you're not only skipping some of the other new pictures of the same set, but many of the best ones of the set too.
But why bother typing about it, if 90% scroll right by whatever I typed to get to the pictures?
These, like many older TV series were only originally produced on 320-360p tape or low quality 16mm film. To save on Satellite bandwidth for the TV networks to broadcast them nationwide, they tended to send everything up in only 320-360p. So it was just a waste to produce them in any higher quality. Although American TV was capable of handling 550p resolution, TV networks didn't want to use that kind of bandwidth on the satellites (or in cable feeds) except for special occasions & events, like a big game or expensively produced movies.
High bandwidth video also caused adjacent channel interference, a big problem with cable companies who have a lot of channels, side by side on the dial. Lower bandwidth video solved the problem. By around 1970 we already had 36 channels on cable, & that didn't even include all the premium, movie, & scrambled channels.
It's quite a long process to get any caps of these or other old TV shows looking good enough. Even at 360p, the subject may be only standing in half to 2/3 of the screen, so the subject is only 180-240p high in the frame. So how can one blow it up to 400p & still look good? It's a long story. First I take many captures around the same scene. Then I select the ones that look the best out of them. Each capture goes through 3 stages of processing with 3 kinds of different imaging software. Up to dozens of clicks later an image is done, cropped, re-sized, & compressed. After a whole set is done, I'll flip through all of them again, deleting the worst ones of the same scene.
Then I have to post them all. That takes some time too. It's quite discouraging after all that to not get enough views on them, or no responses.
This last set is from the last half of the 7th year of the series. It's still a lot of the blander prairie & settlers dresses. But you gotta love the combination with pigtails, curls, & pretty bonnets. Most of us sissies when dress shopping tend to go after the frilly, silky, delicate short dresses. Not very practical for doing chores, milking a cow, rolling on the ground, or riding a horse in.
I'm sure if some of us had a prairie style dress, if we could, we'd get some pigtails or curls, & try to do some chores in them.
After this set we're onto year 8 of the series. That's where Nancy Olsen (Nellie's clone?) joins the show. So there will be quite a few real pretty dresses & curls again. Year 9 was the final year of the series. I have all their special movies too. They were produced separate from the series as "Specials". I don't remember many pretty dresses in the movie specials, but there are a few I'll find.
Of the 9 years of the series there are 22-24, 50 minute episodes to search for images to capture for every year. It's been a long, time consuming process. To delay the process more, many of the episodes were well written & very good. I often had to stop the capture process just to enjoy watching an episode here & there.
Golly, last night I watched the 2 part episode "Sylvia" from series 7, & it brought a tear to my eye... 2 kids in love with a tragic ending. Indeed, except for the Nellie & Nancy episodes I stopped watching the show much because too many episodes were too tragic, sad, & depressing. There's a few happy & fun episodes too, but all too often watching the show would bring me down & were depressing.
Anywho, here's the rest of Series 7. The first picture is a deliberate wide shot because I wanted to capture the beautiful kerosene table lamp, & the one on the wall.
No electricity & TV in that era, but we didn't exactly live in the stone age either. Most homes were quite comfortable, with lots of books to read. No home was complete without a few shelves or boxes full of books. In just a few decades after that era we had radio. I loved some TV as a child. By the time I started building my own radios as a kid I almost stopped watching TV except for just a few TV shows here & there. I didn't start watch more TV again until I was around 22 when I bought my own color TV. It was a small 19" used one, & had to fix it, but I was the first one in my family to own a color TV. But I didn't really watch too much until VCRs became affordable. Once I was able to watch what I wanted when I wanted, FF past the crap & commercials, I loved it. Loved saving my favorites on tape.
Enjoy!
Love & Spankings,
-Betty Pearl-
Topic: Nellie, Nancy, & Friends Gallery - Part 2 (Read 71632 times)
