The NHL in 1971

[BallardEra]

Looks like from a movie mixed with actual gameplay?

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[ItsFineImFine]

Honestly I'd love to watch more old games but the quality of games on Youtube for the 90s alone is awful let alone the 70s or earlier.

Someone some day will hopefully properly remaster some NHL games.

 

[HockeyVirus]

Gotta say, the game is so much better today

 

[BLNY]

Looks like from a movie mixed with actual gameplay?

John Vernon movie - "Face-Off"

 

[spintheblackcircle]

Looks like from a movie mixed with actual gameplay?

I had this as a suggested video on YouTube yesterday

 

[tarheelhockey]

That’s by far and away the best quality footage I’ve seen of that era.

 

[Fantomas]

I always know who to block when I see jokers talking shit about the golden days of 1970s NHL hockey.

Also this footage was 'refined' with an AI program 100%. You can tell.

 

[Paper]

My great-grandfather use to talk about this era as being the greatest time to be able to watch the sport. He grew up watching Orr, Esposito and friends and still talks about them as though they were the greatest ever. I think we all think like that when you're watching the hockey players as a kid growing up.

 

[Fantomas]

My great-grandfather use to talk about this era as being the greatest time to be able to watch the sport. He grew up watching Orr, Esposito and friends and still talks about them as though they were the greatest ever. I think we all think like that when you're watching the hockey players as a kid growing up.

He could afford the ticket, I'm sure.

 

[MadLuke]

Face-Off (1971 film) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Tubi is the largest free movie and TV streaming service in the US. We are not available in Europe due to changes in EU laws.

It look to be very 1970s, if the tubi version is close to how the movie was conserved I imagine that clip went heavy on the image restoration to the point of creating a strange effect, but still nicely done.

 

[Stephen]

That on ice footage can't be game action, right?

 

[Overrated]

That on ice footage can't be game action, right?

Of course it can. I mean some of these are specifically made for the movie right but some are taken from actual games like the Bruins footage right? I am getting confused.

 

[MadLuke]

That on ice footage can't be game action, right?

A lot of the camera angle seem to be possible for the game action (to have camera filming an actual not needing to be on the ice) ?

 

[Stephen]

A lot of the camera angle seem to be possible for the game action (to have camera filming an actual not needing to be on the ice) ?

0:46 second mark doesn't look like it would be possible without a camera on the ice...

 

[Stephen]

That’s by far and away the best quality footage I’ve seen of that era.

You don't get this kind of footage for like 1998-2008...

 

[MadLuke]

0:46 second mark doesn't look like it would be possible without a camera on the ice...

The a lot but not all was quite intentional, number 18 (i would imagine they picked the number of a leaf player that looked the most like the actor) around 50s is an actor where the face is shot from too close to not use the actual actor and the angle too from the ice, there is a mix of real game and made just for the movie footage.

It is very limited hockey action when the camera is down...

 

[Nerowoy nora tolad]

Honestly I'd love to watch more old games but the quality of games on Youtube for the 90s alone is awful let alone the 70s or earlier.

Someone some day will hopefully properly remaster some NHL games.

A lot of the games we do have are VHS copies that were recorded from a live feed, then rerecorded twice, and the tape had the hell beaten out of it since by age and the internals of the VCR. I dont think theres any detail left to clean up or remaster at that point because you arent starting from a high quality master copy of film like a movie set would have used 50 years ago,

I think there may or may not have been original film copies produced by the camera crew some of the time, which then went into that stations archival storage (ie say you could have found some cool stuff of the bobby orr years in the right room at WSBK-TV in 1977), but what stuff survived purging the archives for more space is a crapshoot.

I wouldnt be surprised if say, the CBC could do what you are describing, but it depends on what quality of camera they shot the original film in, and whether an entire games worth is still out there.

 

[ItsFineImFine]

A lot of the games we do have are VHS copies that were recorded from a live feed, then rerecorded twice, and the tape had the hell beaten out of it since by age and the internals of the VCR. I dont think theres any detail left to clean up or remaster at that point because you arent starting from a high quality master copy of film like a movie set would have used 50 years ago,

I think there may or may not have been original film copies produced by the camera crew some of the time, which then went into that stations archival storage (ie say you could have found some cool stuff of the bobby orr years in the right room at WSBK-TV in 1977), but what stuff survived purging the archives for more space is a crapshoot.

I wouldnt be surprised if say, the CBC could do what you are describing, but it depends on what quality of camera they shot the original film in, and whether an entire games worth is still out there.

ok maybe not HD remasters but finding even 90s games in watchable quality on Youtube alone is pretty bad.

 

[MadLuke]

Gilles Proulx made a documentary in 1964:

Such a Simple Game

This short 1964 documentary depicts the national sport of French Canadians: hockey. Seen "from the inside" this seemingly simple game turns out to be not so simple. Hockey …

www.nfb.ca

There some film footage, some at a ice level. And the red of the MTL shirt pop out in a way we can forget looking only at black and white footage, some black and white look really gooda s well.

Footage against the Wings and Hawks

 

[The Panther]

Where's that YouTube footage of Jean Béliveau in the QMHL from around 1951? I've shared it before. The video quality is better than most available footage from the 1990s or early 2000s. It looks like HD.

 

[MadLuke]

I think it came from, the here's hockey! documentary ?


even slow motion look good:

 

[The Panther]

I think it came from, the here hockey documentary ?


even slow motion look good:

ha! Yes, that's it. Looks so good.

 

[Fantomas]

I think it came from, the here's hockey! documentary ?

Thanks. I didn't want this to end.

Where's that YouTube footage of Jean Béliveau in the QMHL from around 1951? I've shared it before. The video quality is better than most available footage from the 1990s or early 2000s. It looks like HD.

You don't get much better quality than with film. It's the best. Film also typically has that nice grainy look I really like.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Gilles Proulx made a documentary in 1964:

Such a Simple Game

This short 1964 documentary depicts the national sport of French Canadians: hockey. Seen "from the inside" this seemingly simple game turns out to be not so simple. Hockey …

www.nfb.ca

There some film footage, some at a ice level. And the red of the MTL shirt pop out in a way we can forget looking only at black and white footage, some black and white look really gooda s well.

Footage against the Wings and Hawks

Great stuff!

 

[Mike C]

Gotta say, the game is so much better today

Gotta say, the game is so much better today

Great stuff!

Just watched on Roku. Love how Plante went halfway to the blue line at the beginning

Game might be better on some levels today, but I love old time hockey.