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Post by rmackenziefehr on Jun 29, 2018 0:50:40 GMT
Is it true that the BFI has thousands of undocumented film cans in its archive, and if that is the case, is it possible that more b/w was donated in one form or another & still lurks there undocumented? This is a very generic question. Even if that is true (and no doubt there will be some uncataloged stuff everywhere), there is no reason to assume it's DW, or even TV, or even from anything missing. Quite- the Library of Congress has been running mini-festivals concerning unidentified materials in its collection for several years now, and, if those festivals are representative, it is likely that whatever unidentified holdings are at the BFI will be fragmentary in nature and chiefly from the silent and early sound eras.
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Post by richardwoods on Jun 29, 2018 19:01:01 GMT
Mind you things can be lurking in this sort of archive, Girl on a Trapeze in the US springs to mind. While as you say there's nothing to say that donated b/w television is in the BFI uncatalogued material, who's to say that it isn't? In reality we won't know for sure until everything they hold is catalogued. The odd episode of something may turn up.
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Post by rmackenziefehr on Jun 30, 2018 0:49:17 GMT
Mind you things can be lurking in this sort of archive, Girl on a Trapeze in the US springs to mind. While as you say there's nothing to say that donated b/w television is in the BFI uncatalogued material, who's to say that it isn't? In reality we won't know for sure until everything they hold is catalogued. The odd episode of something may turn up. Fair point and never say never- however, my understanding has been that the discoveries of lost British TV in American archives has been of a "hiding in plain sight" nature, in which the issue was one of the archive in question not realizing it was something missing, rather than not knowing at all what it was.
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Post by samnurden on Jul 2, 2018 17:23:29 GMT
I hear on occasion that The Underwater Menace episode 3 was spared junking because of the fish people ballet. Are there any other episodes that were spared for similar reasons or is Menace 3 unique in that? Apparently, Space Pirates Episode 2 was saved for historical reasons. Being the first Doctor Who episode to be filmed at the T4C. The quality from the episode is superb from what I remember and looks crystal clear, which is cool.
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Post by samnurden on Jul 2, 2018 21:22:49 GMT
First episode recorded at the T4C. Probably should have been more clear on the details. It moved away from Lime Grove, anyway.
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Post by Jon Preddle on Jul 2, 2018 21:41:03 GMT
I hear on occasion that The Underwater Menace episode 3 was spared junking because of the fish people ballet. Are there any other episodes that were spared for similar reasons or is Menace 3 unique in that? Apparently, Space Pirates Episode 2 was saved for historical reasons. Being the first Doctor Who episode to be filmed at the T4C. The quality from the episode is superb from what I remember and looks crystal clear, which is cool. I doubt that any DW story was ever preserved for "historical reasons". This episode (along with a handful of other DW eps between 1964 and 1969) was recorded in the studio onto 35mm negative film rather than Video Tape. Accordingly, the film was preserved by the BBC's Film Library. And, yes, it does look superb, as one would expect from 35mm film stock.
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Post by samnurden on Jul 3, 2018 16:39:05 GMT
Apparently, Space Pirates Episode 2 was saved for historical reasons. Being the first Doctor Who episode to be filmed at the T4C. The quality from the episode is superb from what I remember and looks crystal clear, which is cool. I doubt that any DW story was ever preserved for "historical reasons". This episode (along with a handful of other DW eps between 1964 and 1969) was recorded in the studio onto 35mm negative film rather than Video Tape. Accordingly, the film was preserved by the BBC's Film Library. And, yes, it does look superb, as one would expect from 35mm film stock. That's fair. In the case of SP E2, it makes sense to me personally, but that historical significance stuff is what Doctor Who Magazine printed, a long old time ago.
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