Survivors (1975) peaks with this shot, I think. The horses, the snow, the countryside, the muted colours, the video-tape-blurriness. It's so beautiful.

The early video camera they were using to make the show was on its last legs in season 3 (the final season). Everything has a green tint and if you look at the left there are lines on the footage. But it allowed them to take advantage of the snow. They also took a risk and used radio mics.

I love this look for england.

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They say "the past is a foreign country" and I think this is shown to great effect in this scene from 1975's Survivors.

PS Some times it's pretty obvious who's going to die in each episode 😅

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There's something dynamic about Survivors for such an old show (1975). It has unpredictable writing but even accounting for that it's got some other x-factor.

Looked into it and it's one of the first dramas ever to switch from film to video tape on location, allowing them to do a lot more outdoor work and also rehearsing on location.

So they got visual degradation from the early-gen video but they got better acting and way more verisimilitude(?)... an interesting trade off

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Watching ye olde post apocalyptic series Survivors (1975) and it is delightfully brutal. Imagine 99.99% of people dying from a virus and the remainers have the moral values of the 1970s.

So there's a lot of men in thick woollen jumpers and tight jeans killing pigs to assert dominance in their newly formed hippy communes.

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