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BFI
Oct 21, 2008 14:50:23 GMT
Post by Stuart Douglas on Oct 21, 2008 14:50:23 GMT
The BFI are featuring tyhe return of the yearly "Missing Believed Wiped" season on their website - including "some of the first exhibits from Bob Monkhouse's vast TV and film collection, and some BBC recoveries. Bob's lot includes The Flip Side, an episode of My Pal Bob, some Top of the Pops and John Osborne in Chelsea at Eight. The Beeb's efforts includes trailers for some 60s shows, a programme that's gone through the Beeb's new colourisation process designed to recover colour programmes from B&W-only recordings, and an episode from a 1950s classics-adaptation."
Anyone know anything further re the Monkhouse recoveries or the identity of the colourised programme?
Year of the Sex Olympics would be brilliant!
Cheers
Stuart
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BFI
Oct 21, 2008 16:26:34 GMT
Post by Joe Haynes on Oct 21, 2008 16:26:34 GMT
Could you proivde a link? i cant seem to find it
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Oct 21, 2008 17:03:43 GMT
Post by Greg H on Oct 21, 2008 17:03:43 GMT
Stuart, thast sounds like a pretty exciting line up!!!!! I was wondering when the Monkhouse collection was going to start surfacing. In all it sounds pretty exciting. I will get to it this year if I have to ride there by tricycle. Simple as that
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Oct 21, 2008 17:06:36 GMT
Post by Greg H on Oct 21, 2008 17:06:36 GMT
Also, do you know if this is frame by frame colourisation, or the snazzy new algorithms that work with chroma dots?
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Oct 21, 2008 18:04:02 GMT
Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2008 18:04:02 GMT
My guess for the colourised programme would be the January 1970 TOTP, as a sizeable chunk is already in colour and I know that the team have been performing tests on the b/w portions of this edition already. Just a wild guess though! I'll be going - lots of selling points AND I am actually free on that date! Amazing! I've just found the link: www.the-word-is-not-enough.com/blog/rob/2008/10/december_at_the_bfi.php
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Oct 21, 2008 18:20:33 GMT
Post by Greg H on Oct 21, 2008 18:20:33 GMT
I think you are probably right about the recolourised footage, probably will be the episode theyve been experimenting with Thats going to be interesting to see. It will be good when the full line up is announced, I saw a bit by Mr Fiddy about it, but couldnt find anything on the BFI site as yet!
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BFI
Oct 21, 2008 21:16:47 GMT
Post by Rich Cornock on Oct 21, 2008 21:16:47 GMT
please keep us informed on this link, im particularly keen to hear of any newly discovered TOTP
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BFI
Oct 22, 2008 6:46:19 GMT
Post by cperry on Oct 22, 2008 6:46:19 GMT
It's an excellent event and well worth going to, as always.
When I asked Dick he said the TOTP footage was a Gerry and the Pacemakers insert that had turned up on film, but having been involved with getting that footage back to the BBC, I told Dick that it was actually footage from Thank Your Lucky Stars, and not TOTP.
However, I believe that other TOTP stuff has turned up this year so Dick can switch to other alternatives if he wishes.
c
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Oct 22, 2008 8:10:52 GMT
Post by Kev Mulrenan on Oct 22, 2008 8:10:52 GMT
It's an excellent event and well worth going to, as always. When I asked Dick he said the TOTP footage was a Gerry and the Pacemakers insert that had turned up on film, but having been involved with getting that footage back to the BBC, I told Dick that it was actually footage from Thank Your Lucky Stars, and not TOTP. However, I believe that other TOTP stuff has turned up this year so Dick can switch to other alternatives if he wishes. c Chris! Fascinating to hear that a TYLS insert has turned up. Any more details? What convinces you it's TYLS? A distinctive background set? I'm presuming it's not from the surviving Merseyside special. As early as 62 vtr inserts were used on TYLS e.g. Dion, and I always thought some of those would survive.
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Oct 22, 2008 13:41:28 GMT
Post by cperry on Oct 22, 2008 13:41:28 GMT
Hi Kevin
yeh its the set thats the giveaway, I do know what song but can't remember off-hand, lol.
c
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Oct 22, 2008 17:09:27 GMT
Post by Andrew Doherty on Oct 22, 2008 17:09:27 GMT
A special mention for 'The Flip Side'.
This BBC2 drama was part of the 'Thirty Minute Theatre' series and was broadcast in in the winter of 1967 and I believe it to be the earliest surviving drama of the series. I was intrigued by Bob Monkhouse's appearance in a serious role (about a DJ with problems). So I watched this drama and was not disappointed. It has stuck in my mind all these years. Apparently, Bob Monkhouse recovered a tape of the production from a college that had recorded it.
Good to know it is now back in the archives.
Yours,
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Oct 22, 2008 20:33:48 GMT
Post by lee jones on Oct 22, 2008 20:33:48 GMT
Wouldn't it be intresting if some of those finds were from around xmas time -- maybe there's a glimpse of one of the old BBC xmas symbols on those recordings (maybe one of the TOTPs?). Oldest one yet found I think is from 1974.
ljones
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Oct 22, 2008 21:56:53 GMT
Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2008 21:56:53 GMT
Is The Flip Side (and the other Monkhouse material being screened) from recovered t/rs or off-air video, Chris? Just curious to know.
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Oct 22, 2008 23:17:47 GMT
Post by cperry on Oct 22, 2008 23:17:47 GMT
All the info you ask about is published on Saturday mate at the B Peter event.
:-)
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Oct 23, 2008 9:21:07 GMT
Post by Stuart Douglas on Oct 23, 2008 9:21:07 GMT
My guess for the colourised programme would be the January 1970 TOTP, as a sizeable chunk is already in colour and I know that the team have been performing tests on the b/w portions of this edition already. Just a wild guess though! I'll be going - lots of selling points AND I am actually free on that date! Amazing! Sigh - no chance of me getting down I'm afraid. Hopefully someone will post a report on the colourisation in particular. Oops - yeah forgot that Stuart
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