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Post by richardfitzgerald on Nov 11, 2011 8:45:41 GMT
Words do not begin to explain my enthusiasm here. Fantastic work to all involved here in this fascinating discovery. A Truely historic and amazing discovery!! Minus the tram-line scratching and that one mentioned join, sounding to be in good shape as well. Wishing we could see that brief clip featured, hoping this can be seen by us all here at some point in the near future. Very interested to hear as well that this was broadcast LIVE. Makes you now wonder as to why this was recorded initially? My best guess here: That Mr. Clarke at the time had requested a copy, or his management possibly? This seems to make the most sense here?? Amazing that material for 'Moon Rock' from 12/01/1970 exists. Fascinating in-depth info there Paul! He did let the cat out of the bag, I hear you there! Cheers, Lance. The latest episode with Sir Patrick's announcement about the recovery is currently available on iplayer here (at the 28 minute mark if you want to skip some fascinating footage from various Mars Landers): www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mk7hThe tramline scratches are relatively minor and don't really distract much (I hadn't noticed them to be honest when I saw the clip on my TV)
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Post by Peter Roberts on Jan 22, 2012 23:11:25 GMT
I'd love to hear more about how this came to be recovered Paul. It's now on the Sky At Night web site, which reports that it was "discovered in an African TV station". Other sources elaborate "recently found in an obscure African TV station." www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00m72mf
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Post by John Wall on Jan 22, 2012 23:37:49 GMT
I'd love to hear more about how this came to be recovered Paul. It's now on the Sky At Night web site, which reports that it was "discovered in an African TV station". Other sources elaborate "recently found in an obscure African TV station." www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00m72mfClearly the egregious Robert Mugabe is a fan of Patrick Moore as well as Dr Who !
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Post by Paul Hayes on Sept 11, 2013 21:31:23 GMT
I watched this for the first time yesterday, and just wanted to say thanks to all involved in its recovery. It's a fascinating little programme, so intriguing to see speculation about the historic events unfolding around them in those years to come. It's marvellous it's available for anyone to view now. A belated well done to all involved in its recovery.
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Post by Greg H on Sept 12, 2013 15:01:09 GMT
I watched this for the first time yesterday, and just wanted to say thanks to all involved in its recovery. It's a fascinating little programme, so intriguing to see speculation about the historic events unfolding around them in those years to come. It's marvellous it's available for anyone to view now. A belated well done to all involved in its recovery. Glad to hear it is good. May I ask where you saw it? Was it given away with a magazine?
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Post by richardwoods on Sept 12, 2013 16:51:17 GMT
I watched this for the first time yesterday, and just wanted to say thanks to all involved in its recovery. It's a fascinating little programme, so intriguing to see speculation about the historic events unfolding around them in those years to come. It's marvellous it's available for anyone to view now. A belated well done to all involved in its recovery. Glad to hear it is good. May I ask where you saw it? Was it given away with a magazine? It's available on the BBC Website at www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00m72mf
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Post by Greg H on Sept 12, 2013 17:15:17 GMT
Sweet! Thanks for the heads up.
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Post by richardwoods on Sept 12, 2013 18:01:55 GMT
No problem!
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Post by Kelly Davies on Jan 2, 2014 19:02:36 GMT
Greatest find ever
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Post by richardwoods on Jan 2, 2014 21:28:15 GMT
Shame the solar flares episode doesn't seem to be available yet.
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Post by stevewhite on Oct 13, 2014 17:07:39 GMT
On Sunday's broadcast (6/11/11) Sir Patrick Moore ended the programme by announced a special treat - an edition of the show from the early Sixties had been recovered, one that contained a studio interview with Arthur C Clarke on the subject of manned Moonbases! A brief clip was shown, which suggested the print was of very good condition. Hi all, This is in fact the discovery I was going to announce on December 3rd pre-empting a feature on the discovery which will be in the next edition of 'The Sky at Night' on December 4th. I've been rather caught out by the announcement by Sir P, but I can tell you he was very excited about it. The film was returned by a private collector. When I examined the film I noted a small cement splice within the first couple of minutes. Apart from that it's in generally good nick although does suffer from some scuffing and tramline scratching. When a decent Spirit transfer is eventually done, the visibility of the tramlines will be minimised. The programme is from September 10th 1963 and was broadcast live. I've no idea why it was recorded, and we only have one complete edition apart from this from 1963, a Special about an eclipse (I think!). This is the only surviving episode of the actual series of 1963 eps and it's fantastic to see Arthur Clarke on such good form. Regards, Paul PS - The 16mm print is now at the BBC Archive in Perivale. Hello Paul,
You say you don't know why it was recorded, was it not known to have been recorded before it was recovered and was it known to have been sold to Africa? Surely the sky would look very different from their perspective.
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Steve
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Post by robertboon on Jul 19, 2015 16:55:51 GMT
Anyone care to comment about this? According to this very thread (which lists the early extant episodes) and the Lost Shows database the Sky at Night for 24/04/1961 entitled 'Life on the Moon' is missing, yet in 2009 the BBC to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the first manned landings put together a number of pages including this. According to the web archive the page has existed since at least 6 July 2009. So its been in plain sight for 6 years! Could this be the other episode that Phil Morris announced he'd found?
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Post by RWels on Jul 19, 2015 18:36:56 GMT
Anyone care to comment about this? According to this very thread (which lists the early extant episodes) and the Lost Shows database the Sky at Night for 24/04/1961 entitled 'Life on the Moon' is missing, yet in 2009 the BBC to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the first manned landings put together a number of pages including this. According to the web archive the page has existed since at least 6 July 2009. So its been in plain sight for 6 years! Could this be the other episode that Phil Morris announced he'd found? Well, lostshows says "existence unknown", which isn't the same as when it says "missing". (Also, lostshows is occasionally wrong, it covers thousands of programs and is maintained only by volunteers.) The list on page 1 is for episodes that do exist (or at least partially), and it seems to be there. I don't know which episode was recovered by Phil Morris' expeditions - seems to be two 1963 programs - but as you said the webpage has been there for some time (and so has this thread) so it couldn't have been his yet - too early. Reading back, it looks as if another 1963 episode (or, one of these two) was returned by a private collector. Why it was sold to Africa? Who knows! But I think Phil Morris found the episode North of the equator so that would mean they have largely the same constellations as the rest of the Northern Hemisphere? Besides, SAN did't just do constellations, AFAIK? So anyway, the episode from 24/04/1961 exists, and doesn't seem to be a recent recovery.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2015 7:52:28 GMT
Not only has the 24 April 1961 edition been available for a long time on the BBC website, but Patrick showed an excerpt during his 20th anniversary programme in April 1977. It was also shown on a morning TV programme with Eamonn Holmes some years later, when Patrick was a guest. So I think it's likely this programme has never been missing.
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