Blue screen?! That's even more bizarre. That's viewing tape that's never been written to. If anything had ever been recorded on that section of tape then it would be black - as you indicated.

Here's a thought. Have you cued through the entire tape? Just to make sure that your camera hadn't been knocked at some point between recordings (perhaps inadvertently fast forwarded a few seconds or minutes) and so when you started your next take it would have left a few mins gap between the recordings, which, if the tape was new, would show up as blue during that period.

Just a thought,

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