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On the hunt for visual raw material, I ended up doing some digging, and eventually bought a digital back issue of Doctor Who Magazine special edition 34, with all the existing Marco Polo tele snaps cleaned, organized, and about as high quality as is possible to find. Interestingly they added a thing over all the images in the magazine, some purple frame design that slightly crops each image and heavily rounds all the corners. Lame.
But... importantly it is the digital version, so the online magazine viewer allowed me to "print", which allowed me to save as PDF. And wouldn't you know it, if you import those PDFs into Photoshop you can either choose to import the whole page as a layer, OR just pick out the embedded images. Choosing images in this case reveals that the purple stuff added was actually added non-destructively, and just like that the full frames are restored.
Each is still pretty small and low res, but upscaling is already going to have to be part of the workflow, and the clean up was nice enough to show improvement over what you'd see in a standard reconstruction.
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Now I'm trying to find all possibly obtainable (non tele-snap) photos from the production, and I'm having a bad time doing it. It's not that there aren't many images, it's that there is no central hub or organized way to find and keep track of them all, and I keep finding wild variations like the same image cropped differently but the one cropped less is super low resolution, or the one cropped more is in color, or little low quality images that are only on one blog and reposted to Pinterest 50 times, seemingly sourceless. Google image search can certainly be an adventure.
If anyone has any advice to offer on the photos, I'm all ears, anyone who knows of a collection or something. I do have the one from the BBC classic who site Marco Polo gallery with 20 images, and two extra images from the Hartnell gallery on the same site. These are some I found to be cropped pretty heavily in some cases, the original originals have to be somewhere, right?
But... importantly it is the digital version, so the online magazine viewer allowed me to "print", which allowed me to save as PDF. And wouldn't you know it, if you import those PDFs into Photoshop you can either choose to import the whole page as a layer, OR just pick out the embedded images. Choosing images in this case reveals that the purple stuff added was actually added non-destructively, and just like that the full frames are restored.
Each is still pretty small and low res, but upscaling is already going to have to be part of the workflow, and the clean up was nice enough to show improvement over what you'd see in a standard reconstruction.
..
Now I'm trying to find all possibly obtainable (non tele-snap) photos from the production, and I'm having a bad time doing it. It's not that there aren't many images, it's that there is no central hub or organized way to find and keep track of them all, and I keep finding wild variations like the same image cropped differently but the one cropped less is super low resolution, or the one cropped more is in color, or little low quality images that are only on one blog and reposted to Pinterest 50 times, seemingly sourceless. Google image search can certainly be an adventure.
If anyone has any advice to offer on the photos, I'm all ears, anyone who knows of a collection or something. I do have the one from the BBC classic who site Marco Polo gallery with 20 images, and two extra images from the Hartnell gallery on the same site. These are some I found to be cropped pretty heavily in some cases, the original originals have to be somewhere, right?