Video Collector said:

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ESB_TP Notes

On first listen thought ESB_TP sounded sped up, but then I start getting confused about the capture system.

This is just regular PAL speedup. In the Telecine process, the original 24 frames are captured, but on playback it is shown at 25 fps. PAL does not introduce any extra frames at all, just runs them 4% faster. The pitch change of the audio is imperceptible to most people without a side-by side comparison. Drives some people up the wall, I know. The PAL speed up is proof-positive that this was not camcorded off a projection.

You are right, but PAL speedup has nothing to do with whether it was camcorded or not. Since this was a British print, the person doing the camcording would not have been using an NTSC camera but a local PAL one. (although just because a tape is PAL doesn't mean the source was PAL anyway, but it would make little sense for a Brit to be doing this with a foreign camera).

But because of the excellent registration, uniform exposure, colour information, detail level, etc., this is undoubtedly a telecine, and as it is a british print it was probably done locally, transfered to the PAL format. Given the quality of this, I wouldn't be surprised if it also got copied to NTSC for overseas use.