LONCON3 - Missing Believed Wiped & Restoration Team
Jul 29, 2014 11:11:34 GMT
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Post by Anthony Tobin on Jul 29, 2014 11:11:34 GMT
Acknowledgement to a member of the Facebook ME page, David Brider, for this information.
It seems that Loncon3, being held in August at the east end of ExCeL and the International Convention Centre (ICC), will feature a Missing Believed Wiped session and members of the Restoration Team will be in attendance the following day.
guide.loncon3.org/#prog/day:2014-08-15
guide.loncon3.org/#prog/day:2014-08-16
This was somewhat unheralded! Despite being held in association with the BFI Days of Fear and Wonder, I could not find a mention anywhere on their site.
Does anyone have any insight or comments as to what might be involved with these sessions?
Thank you
It seems that Loncon3, being held in August at the east end of ExCeL and the International Convention Centre (ICC), will feature a Missing Believed Wiped session and members of the Restoration Team will be in attendance the following day.
Missing - Believed Wiped
Capital Suite 17 (ExCeL), Friday 15 August, 3pm - 5pm
Tags: Archive, BFI, Lost Television
Types: TV Screenings
Mark Slater, Dick Fiddy
Missing Believed Wiped is an annual event hosted by the BFI (British Film Institute) in which recovered television material from the UK which had missing from the archives and presumed to be lost or destroyed, is screened for the public. The event was co-founded by Dick Fiddy, television consultant with the BFI, back in 1993 - and in the intervening years some of the highest profile recoveries of lost material have been of genre television - including the recent high profile recoveries of lost Doctor Who episodes during it's anniversary year. In this special presentation, Dick presents snippets of recovered genre material that have come to light over the years and tells some of the fascinating back stories of how important cultural artifacts, thought long lost to posterity, have made the long journey back into the archives.
Presented in association with the BFI 'Sci-Fi: Days Of Fear And Wonder'
Capital Suite 17 (ExCeL), Friday 15 August, 3pm - 5pm
Tags: Archive, BFI, Lost Television
Types: TV Screenings
Mark Slater, Dick Fiddy
Missing Believed Wiped is an annual event hosted by the BFI (British Film Institute) in which recovered television material from the UK which had missing from the archives and presumed to be lost or destroyed, is screened for the public. The event was co-founded by Dick Fiddy, television consultant with the BFI, back in 1993 - and in the intervening years some of the highest profile recoveries of lost material have been of genre television - including the recent high profile recoveries of lost Doctor Who episodes during it's anniversary year. In this special presentation, Dick presents snippets of recovered genre material that have come to light over the years and tells some of the fascinating back stories of how important cultural artifacts, thought long lost to posterity, have made the long journey back into the archives.
Presented in association with the BFI 'Sci-Fi: Days Of Fear And Wonder'
guide.loncon3.org/#prog/day:2014-08-15
The Doctor Who Restoration Team
Capital Suite 17 (ExCeL), Saturday 16 August, 1:30pm - 3pm
Tags: Doctor Who, Archive
Types: TV Screenings
Mark Slater, Mark Ayres, Peter Crocker, Jonathan Wood, Steve Roberts
In 1992, a small group of Doctor Who fans within the television industry approached the BBC's Television Archivist with a view to securing funding for a unique project - the experimental restoration of a monochrome Jon Pertwee story back to its original colour form. So successful was this venture, that the 'team' expanded and has since been responsible for the restoration of many classic Doctor Who stories for DVD release and broadcast. Restoration has involved taking damaged and decaying archive materials, and bringing them back to original broadcast quality - and in some cases going even further. In this presentation, Steve Roberts, Mark Ayres, Peter Crocker and Jonathan Wood will discuss the ethos, methods and technologies they have brought to bear over the years on what has been an epic labour of love.
Capital Suite 17 (ExCeL), Saturday 16 August, 1:30pm - 3pm
Tags: Doctor Who, Archive
Types: TV Screenings
Mark Slater, Mark Ayres, Peter Crocker, Jonathan Wood, Steve Roberts
In 1992, a small group of Doctor Who fans within the television industry approached the BBC's Television Archivist with a view to securing funding for a unique project - the experimental restoration of a monochrome Jon Pertwee story back to its original colour form. So successful was this venture, that the 'team' expanded and has since been responsible for the restoration of many classic Doctor Who stories for DVD release and broadcast. Restoration has involved taking damaged and decaying archive materials, and bringing them back to original broadcast quality - and in some cases going even further. In this presentation, Steve Roberts, Mark Ayres, Peter Crocker and Jonathan Wood will discuss the ethos, methods and technologies they have brought to bear over the years on what has been an epic labour of love.
guide.loncon3.org/#prog/day:2014-08-16
This was somewhat unheralded! Despite being held in association with the BFI Days of Fear and Wonder, I could not find a mention anywhere on their site.
Does anyone have any insight or comments as to what might be involved with these sessions?
Thank you