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Post by RWels on Jan 2, 2015 15:45:49 GMT
The DVD of Goodbye Again contains almost 2 hours of sketches of which only the location stuff is colour (and very good colour at that, 35mm film). The material from the rest of the 4 episodes does not appear in their original cuts and is b/w. Including one Scarlett Pimpernell medical checkup sketch. But I once got a clip where the same is in colour.  Where could this be from? |
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Post by Peter Stirling on Jan 2, 2015 16:17:12 GMT
The series was made in colour and it was thought that only B/W telerecordings remained, along with the colour location films saved by the director in his attic. For the present release the colour films were then overdubbed onto the B/W TR soundtracks to pick up the laughter.
Presumably (from this) the colour VTRs are about somewhere? - somebody just has not looked properly.
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Post by Tim Disney on Jan 2, 2015 16:18:41 GMT
It looks like the final edition of 'Closed Circuit,' better known as 'The Elstree Story' that was put together for internal consumption by the team at Central. It features a narration by Shaw Taylor and is generally out there in trading circles. I believe a few of these colour VT items were junked after 1983 and went "missing" (or dropped off the back of a TV station  I wouldn't be surprised if the eventual transfer of assets to Polygram had something to do with this. |
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Post by Peter Stirling on Jan 2, 2015 16:28:35 GMT
I don't know if it is on the DVD (in B/W) but I thought would be particularly interesting would be seeing Pete and Dud abandoning a hospital ward sketch only to have Ike and Tina Turner come in singing at full blast (IIRC-maybe a dream? LOL)
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Post by RWels on Jan 3, 2015 13:10:24 GMT
It looks like the final edition of 'Closed Circuit,' better known as 'The Elstree Story' that was put together for internal consumption by the team at Central. It features a narration by Shaw Taylor and is generally out there in trading circles. I believe a few of these colour VT items were junked after 1983 and went "missing" (or dropped off the back of a TV station I wouldn't be surprised if the eventual transfer of assets to Polygram had something to do with this. So you suspect the colour VT went missing only after that? That'd be sad! Anyway looks like you're right: same clip on youtube |
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Post by George D on Jan 4, 2015 10:20:54 GMT
What else on that compilation is now missing?
Has any research been dune to trace the archives?
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Post by RWels on Sept 29, 2019 14:37:42 GMT
By the way, someone went over the b/w recordings for Kaleidoscope, and it turns out that "The Elstree Story" used the shot from the US version - they had two different sets of cameras there, one for each side of the Atlantic. So they had different angles.
That means that there is no evidence that the normal, UK, "Goodbye Again" episodes existed in colour in 1981. Just the "Kraft" cuts.
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Post by RWels on Oct 6, 2019 14:55:46 GMT
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Post by John Green on Oct 6, 2019 23:46:47 GMT
Goodbye Again Colour footage of Pete and Dud recovered from the USA on 2” videotape and never seen in the UK! A complete Goodbye Again made at ATV Elstree for transmission in America; and found by Kaleidoscope in the USA. Many classic sketches filmed on colour cameras simultaneously as ATV recorded monochrome pictures for UK broadcast. Plus……. New footage shot specially for America and never seen in the UK to link the sketches! Classic sketches in colour including John Cleese in a cameo role. |
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Post by Jaspal Cheema on Oct 10, 2019 15:14:24 GMT
Goodbye Again Colour footage of Pete and Dud recovered from the USA on 2” videotape and never seen in the UK! A complete Goodbye Again made at ATV Elstree for transmission in America; and found by Kaleidoscope in the USA. Many classic sketches filmed on colour cameras simultaneously as ATV recorded monochrome pictures for UK broadcast. Plus……. New footage shot specially for America and never seen in the UK to link the sketches! Classic sketches in colour including John Cleese in a cameo role. That sounds absolutely brilliant and hopefully sometime soon we'll get to see it,either by the BBC or the wonderful Network releases! |
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