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Post by Jon Preddle on Jan 18, 2012 23:13:40 GMT
Yes, that's the same Dallas Jones. But please don't go hounding him after info about the photos! He won't tell you!  |
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Post by Simeon Carter on Jan 18, 2012 23:18:51 GMT
I did send him an email earlier as I was curious if it was him or not but I wasn't going to pester him with questions. That must get so irritating!!!
In his photos section, under 'Doctor Who Gallery' does anyone know who he is with in the third image?
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Post by Jon Preddle on Jan 18, 2012 23:21:49 GMT
In his photos section, under 'Doctor Who Gallery' does anyone know who he is with in the third image? The woman is Kerrie Dougherty. I don't know who the other chap is. |
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Post by Brad Phipps on Jan 19, 2012 1:03:40 GMT
5) Can I find those images which have been published online? If so where?
This is my site, which hasn't been updated in ages. Am in the process of moving it to a new location. The new site is here: themissingepisodenexus.blogspot.com/All Feast of Steven images can be accessed here. #8 fell off the radar a while back but since I've forgotten all access codes for the Angelfire site I can't get back in to fix it. So I read in this thread that image 8 is actually incorrect and is really a shot of The Aztecs? I shall have to fix that! |
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Post by Brad Phipps on Jan 19, 2012 1:04:59 GMT
Oh and the entire site is still a work in progress, so tread carefully. |
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Post by Simeon Carter on Jan 19, 2012 7:48:32 GMT
I will take a look. Thanks!
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Post by adamjordan on Jan 19, 2012 19:19:42 GMT
I wonder if it would be productive to run an article about John Cura and in the features section of some local or national papers. I know there's a guy from Kaleidoscope who runs a regular feature on old TV in the wolverhampton Express and Star. A lot of effort has been exerted to make people aware of the missing episodes (with mixed success it seems!). It is extremely unlikely that those would be held by a casual reader, but off-air photos of old TV programmes? Obviously it wasn't a common practice but the chances of someone holding snaps of old TV shows must be far higher than holding an episode. I think this would interest features editors as it is a subject that very few people seem to know anything about (but then, that seems to go for much of the missing tv subject in general)
I guess that many of the non Cura snaps we have are from ex production crew and long term fans who have stayed in touch. (Did Ian Levine not take snaps to accompany his famous notebooks?) This seems like a small pool compared to the rest of the television viewing population.
I remember buying some photos from the Time Warrior taken from the TV from a fanzine in the pre video days. We are only looking for stuff taken 4 years previous to that. And in a broader context there is a lot missing from the 70s too.
Seems like an untapped avenue to me.
I wonder if the original Dr Who Fan club members might have taken off screen snaps?
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Post by John Green on Jan 19, 2012 19:30:40 GMT
Shouldn't someone put up a blue plaque to John Cura in Clapham?
I must get a certain magazine (or the omnibus) to find out more of telesnaps' history.
Somehow a few Z-cars photos turned up in a nearby auction-house,though I didn't buy them.
Once again,please.I've always believed that if you pointed an ordinary camera at a TV you got no image.Is this an urban myth held by just one person?
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Post by Simeon Carter on Jan 19, 2012 19:36:34 GMT
jgreen if you point an ordinary camera at a TV you do get an image (try it). The off-air photographs are further proof of this. On another note in this video at 4:10 is that the Gary Leigh who recovered the 20 Feast Of Steven images or is he someone else? www.youtube.com/watch?v=keNiW4zskpE |
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Post by Jon Preddle on Jan 19, 2012 19:39:56 GMT
On another note in this video at 4:10 is that the Gary Leigh who recovered the 20 Feast Of Steven images or is he someone else? Yes, that's him. Gary Leigh / Gary Levy seems to have dropped off the radar though. |
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Post by Simeon Carter on Jan 19, 2012 19:43:36 GMT
Many of the people involved with the Off-Air photographs have barely any info on the web. The only people I have been able to find images for are Gary Leigh, Robert Jewell and Dallas Jones!
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Post by John Green on Jan 19, 2012 20:04:07 GMT
Thanks Simeon.I haven't taken a photo in 20 years.
I get the impression-haven't gotten the Nothing at the End mags yet-that John Cura perfected a method of avoiding any strobe effect from off-air photos.
While he sold telesnaps to actors,directors,etc.,I get the impression that there was little or no attempt to capture particular aspects of any production,and the shots were taken in every sense mechanically?
I must send my cheque off.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Jan 19, 2012 20:09:57 GMT
jgreen if you point an ordinary camera at a TV you do get an image (try it). The off-air photographs are further proof of this. Certainly true : I was scanning in some negatives recently from the 1980s, and in one family snap the TV screen is showing an image that was clearly from Howard's Way. I checked the date and it was actually from the 1st episode in 1985 (not that this is in any way missing of course). |
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Post by Brad Phipps on Jan 19, 2012 20:16:16 GMT
Many of the people involved with the Off-Air photographs have barely any info on the web. The only people I have been able to find images for are Gary Leigh, Robert Jewell and Dallas Jones! Maybe I'll add it to my website, with permission from the NATEOTL team of course. Have got a busy life now so only do updates when I can. Not that I'm getting issue 3. I'll have to gleam the information from elsewhere. |
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Post by David Cann on Jan 19, 2012 20:26:17 GMT
Certainly true : I was scanning in some negatives recently from the 1980s, and in one family snap the TV screen is showing an image that was clearly from Howard's Way. I checked the date and it was actually from the 1st episode in 1985 (not that this is in any way missing of course). Hmm, interesting... who knows? Off-air snaps of 'The Feast of Steven' could be lurking in the Christmas family photo album of an unsuspecting owner, and the same could be said for any episode (though it's more likely that more photos were being taken on Christmas Day, I guess, which is why I used that example). But I guess it would be a bit much if we asked the public to check their photo albums from the 50s/60s/70s in the hope that missing material would be lurking in the background!  Still, perhaps it's worth a look, just to be sure... not that the quality would be very good if it was in the background anyway. I can just imagine it - a perfectly timed shot of a Rill, or the Doctor smiling down the camera delivering his famous festive line, ruined by cousin Bob's shoulder obscuring the screen! (no offence if anyone actually has a cousin called Bob  ) |
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Still, perhaps it's worth a look, just to be sure... not that the quality would be very good if it was in the background anyway. I can just imagine it - a perfectly timed shot of a Rill, or the Doctor smiling down the camera delivering his famous festive line, ruined by cousin Bob's shoulder obscuring the screen! (no offence if anyone actually has a cousin called Bob 
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