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Starlog #3 — Dream Machines - Movie and TV Spaceships

 
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Bud Brewster
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 3:58 pm    Post subject: Starlog #3 — Dream Machines - Movie and TV Spaceships Reply with quote

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Enjoy this exceptional Starlog article from issue 3.

Click on each page here to see a large, easy-to-read version you can zoom in on. Click on the large version again, and then zoom in as close as you want!
















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PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 4:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The choice of images for some of the ships seems curious, as they don't show off the ships all that well. And he didn't include any of the ships from TV shows that were very popular in the 1950s. But I'm probably projecting our modern Internet access to images onto the authors, who were more likely limited to a folder of stock photos.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 6:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The Archive.org scans do a great job of copying the text, but the scans of the magazine photos are often marred by strange grid patterns which obscure the images.

And frankly my efforts to heighten the contrast and clarity of the text on each page — which have darkened because of age and poorly-made scans — tend to wash out the black-and-white photos. I've made efforts to preserve the color images by pasting them back onto the enhanced B&W pages after correcting them, but often they aren't that good to start with, so the finale results are not that impressive.

The purpose of posting these articles is, of course, to present them in a highly legible form. The pictures they display, even if we were holding perfect copies of the magazines in our hands today, would not impress us after becoming accustom to the hi-definition, color-enhanced images we enjoy here on All Sci-Fi.

But I'm sure our members are enjoying these classic articles from magazines we all treasured in our youth. Very Happy

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 6:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bud, your efforts to place these iconic classical articles in this site is to be HIGHLY praised! I know just how hard it can be to enhance them to the quality that you do.

These are from the heyday of STARLOG when the articles weren't just a "plug" for an upcomming movie, but a real act of love by the writers for the genre.

Thank you!

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 7:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Gord, your kind remarks have warmed the cockles of my heart! Very Happy

I'm not sure what cockles are, but I'm sure they're better when they're warm than when they're cold! Cold cockles just don't sound very pleasant. Sad

I'll continue to find and enhance these articles for the enjoyment of All Sci-Fi's members. All I ask in return is that you guys read them (as I do) and offer a few original comments that express your own feelings.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 8:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It wasn't the quality of the scans I was criticizing. If you look, for instance, at the image of the ship from The Man from Planet X, an explosion is going off which obscures much of the detail of the ship. The photo from Conquest of Space also leaves a lot to be desired as far as showing off the features of the ship.

Similarly, much of the tails of the ships from Flash Gordon and When Worlds Collide were cropped.

I thought the article was supposed to show off the "dream machines" of sci-fi.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 09, 2018 11:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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You're right, the photos look terrible in this article and several of the others. I can only assume that perhaps the scanning process washed out the photos, and my efforts to make the pages a little brighter to get rid of dark smudges around the text on some pages made the photos even worse.

Here are "before and after" images of the two pages you mentioned, with the first image being my "cleaned and corrected version" and the second image being the original without any alteration. Notice that I even had to twist the second page counter-clockwise to align it right!












As you can see, the pictures in the scans of this particular issue just weren't very good to start with. I didn't make them too much worse by brightening the image. Compare the pages above to the Destination Moon article, which has fairly good pictures.



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 09, 2018 5:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

They should not have left out the terrific looking space ships from Ray Harryhausen's ''Earth vs the Flying Saucers.''
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 09, 2018 7:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The didn't leave out the saucers from Earth vs the Flying Sauces, but they certainly didn't include a very good picture.






A better tribute to the saucers in that great movie would have included a picture more like this!



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 09, 2018 9:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bud Brewster wrote:

The Archive.org scans do a great job of copying the text, but the scans of the magazine photos are often marred by strange grid patterns which obscure the images.

The moiré patterns are caused by interference between the scanning raster and the halftone dot pattern in the original magazine images. I don't know how long ago those scans were done, but modern flatbed scanners and their accompanying software have a "descreen" function to minimize that odd effect.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 10, 2018 7:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Archive.org does let you browse through the whole magazine (or indeed download a copy), though you miss out on Bud's enhancements:

https://archive.org/stream/starlog_magazine-003/003#page/n0/mode/2up

As far as I can see, they have a lot of the later issues of Starlog there, and many of the earlier ones - hopefully the later scans are better.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 3:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I've yet to discover a way to get Archive.org to display the complete list of Starlogs they have, in chronological order.

However, I have discovered a useful trick that allows me to quickly find any Starlogs according to its issue number.

Here's the ULR for issue #1, which takes you to the front cover (page number "0").

https://archive.org/stream/starlog_magazine-001/001#page/n0/mode/2up/search/Across+the+Space+Frontier

Notice the part of the URL which includes 001/001#page/n0. That indicates issue #1, page "zero", which is the cover. But if I simply change both of the 001's in the URL to 002's and hit enter, like this —

https://archive.org/stream/starlog_magazine-002/002#page/n0/mode/2up/search/Across+the+Space+Frontier

— I get the front cover of issue #2. To get issue #3, I just make the same change.

https://archive.org/stream/starlog_magazine-003/003#page/n0/mode/2up/search/Across+the+Space+Frontier

Furthermore, if I want to start at the table of contents of one issue and go directly to the table of contents of the next issue, I just flip to the table of contents of the issue I'm already looking at, then I change the issue number in the URL to the issue number I want to go to.

Here's why it works! Very Happy

Notice that the URL below for the table of contents of issue #1 includes this — #page/n1/ — which means that page 1 is the table of contents for that issue.

https://archive.org/stream/starlog_magazine-001/001#page/n1/mode/2up/search/Across+the+Space+Frontier

Therefore, if I change the two issue numbers in the URL from 001 to another issue number (like 003) and hit enter, I'll go directly to the table of contents for issue #3.

Using this method, I can jump from issue to issue and view each table of contents quickly to see what articles it contains!

Using this easy method, I'm making my way through the Starlogs issues as I search for interesting articles to post on All Sci-Fi!

If you guys are trying to find specific issues, I suggest you try this easy method. Very Happy

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 7:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've downloaded a LOT of the great magazines from Archive.org and love them all! What a great way to spend an evening perusing through a group of old friends and discovering new ones!

From golden age comics with Captain Marvel, Bulletman and Ibis to classic sci-fi and horror pulps this site is a goldmine!

(Not to mention the old radio shows and movies!)

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 12:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You want Starlog Dream Machines? Try this...

Starlog Photo Guidebook: Spaceships

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 24, 2018 9:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This was taken at the 1970 M-G-M auction just after The Time Machine was sold.



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