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Post by Dick Fiddy on Jul 1, 2004 18:33:16 GMT
This year's Missing Believed Wiped event will take place at the NFT in December. Among the items on view will be the recovered 2 editions of The Complete and Utter History of Britain. I was wondering if anyone out there had a missing item they would like included in this year's line-up. The normal practice with material is that we borrow the original from the donor, make a copy for the archive and a viewing copy to be screened at the NFT. Then the originakl is returned to the donor (if he ior she wants it back). Otherwsie we can provide a vhs copy of the donated material if that is preferred. If you want to offer something or need more info I can be contacted at dick.fiddy@bfi.org.uk
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Post by greg glenn on Jul 2, 2004 14:05:29 GMT
What's the story on the recovery of the two Complete and Utter History of Brittain episodes? I missed it if it was covered here.
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Post by Dick Fiddy on Jul 2, 2004 18:12:40 GMT
Somehow alerted about the Missing Believed Wiped initiative (I think from a newspaper article), Maurice Murphy, director of Complete and Utter History of Britain, - now living in Australia - contacted us regarding some recordings he had of the series. It transpired he had two half-inch helical tape recordings of episodes recorded on 14.10.68 and 31.10.68. He sent them to us and the tapes were worked on at the NFTVA (the delivery and first look at the tapes was captured on camera for the Time Shift: Missing Believed Wiped documentary).
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Post by Pete on Jul 2, 2004 22:41:38 GMT
what is the point in this show  it should be on the Shown on the TV and not in a film theatre. with a modern medium called television, there it should be broadcast as it was intended. this is not the 1920's or a 19th century magic lanten show !!!!! |
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Post by greg glenn on Jul 3, 2004 1:55:39 GMT
Thanks Dick. Recovered on tape and not film. Good news all around.
gg
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Post by Richard Fitzgerald on Jul 3, 2004 16:37:21 GMT
Somehow alerted about the Missing Believed Wiped initiative (I think from a newspaper article), Maurice Murphy, director of Complete and Utter History of Britain, - now living in Australia - contacted us regarding some recordings he had of the series. It transpired he had two half-inch helical tape recordings of episodes recorded on 14.10.68 and 31.10.68. He sent them to us and the tapes were worked on at the NFTVA (the delivery and first look at the tapes was captured on camera for the Time Shift: Missing Believed Wiped documentary). Hello again Dick. Do you know if the tape recordings held by Mr Murphy were made at the time from the original masters - I'm interested if LWT producers had the facility to do this in 68/69. |
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Post by GarethR on Jul 4, 2004 9:09:01 GMT
what is the point in this show To allow people to see programmes they are unlikely to be able to see anywhere else. Quite so. But until a broadcaster decides to show obscure old programmes to satisfy a very small audience of vintage TV enthusiasts, surely it's better to see these shows in a film theatre than not to see them at all? They must have been, since they've got the original VT clocks at the head (as glimpsed on the BBC-4 show). |
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Post by pete on Jul 4, 2004 14:44:04 GMT
surely BBC3 & BBC4 should so this insted of showing a load of old boring 60's garbage in june
a hell of a cop out
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Post by Richard Fitzgerald on Jul 4, 2004 15:18:33 GMT
They must have been, since they've got the original VT clocks at the head (as glimpsed on the BBC-4 show). Very interesting - I wonder if other LWT producers made similar copies of their programmes around the same time? |
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Post by GarethR on Jul 9, 2004 13:31:02 GMT
surely BBC3 & BBC4 should so this insted of showing a load of old boring 60's garbage in june Maybe they should. But they're not going to, so MBW is one hell of a lot better than nothing. Would you rather the NFT didn't bother and these programmes remained gathering dust on the shelf? |
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Post by CliveUK on Jul 9, 2004 14:10:56 GMT
> surely BBC3 & BBC4 should so this insted of showing a load of old boring 60's garbage in june
Which a lot of us happened to enjoy !
Horses for courses.....
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Post by William Martin on Jul 9, 2004 16:25:26 GMT
steady now |
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Post by Bent Halo on Jul 13, 2004 10:37:12 GMT
surely BBC3 & BBC4 should so this insted of showing a load of old boring 60's garbage in june Didn't the last MBW evening on BBC4 last Christmas pretty much replicate that year's NFT schedule anyway? |
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