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Post by Richard Marple on Mar 8, 2012 18:07:16 GMT
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Post by Philip Hindley on Mar 9, 2012 8:22:59 GMT
I would love to see some of this missing footage, or the alternate titles of the Quatermass films particulary the first two films with their American titles The Creeping Unknown and Enemy from Space, the feature length versions, not the trailers.Somebody pointed out to me that the USA copies were destroyed in the 1960's ? I have Five Million Years to Earth, but my one missing Hammer rarity, which I have been after for years would be the original trailer for THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT, now this really is a piece of missing Hammer footage !
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2012 12:45:38 GMT
Hammer are lucky, in a sense, that they can talk optimistically about recovering missing scenes rather than missing complete programmes (or even series), as with TV!
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Post by Peter Stirling on Mar 9, 2012 15:39:33 GMT
Didnt half the Hammer stuff end up as ballast for the M3 motorway?
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Post by felixdembinski on Mar 9, 2012 16:25:10 GMT
The wicker man did
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Post by rjesimpson on Mar 11, 2012 9:21:41 GMT
You're thinking about the stories of The Wicker Man. At one point it was fairly common for waste film to be sent for use as landfill, apparently.
Laurence - as a matter of fact, there are a number of Hammer films currently missing, material from the 30s, 40s and 50s. The current appeal is related to films which are being restored for Blu-ray, but there is a wider hope that material for other films will resurface too.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2012 10:06:27 GMT
Yes, i'm aware there are missing films. The point I was really making though is that proportionately the Hammer films have much less missing (which is good, of course) than many areas of TV do. The vintage TV fan's life has not been always been made a happy one by past archive policies!
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Post by Richard Marple on Mar 11, 2012 17:54:11 GMT
I've heard of old film being processed to remove the silver nitrate from it.
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Post by Greg H on Mar 11, 2012 18:23:21 GMT
I've heard of old film being processed to remove the silver nitrate from it. Sadly this seems to have been a relatively common occurence. For example the vast majority of Andy Milligan's films were lost this way. I have heard people say that if you watch Andy Milligan films there is no hope for you, but it would be nice to have the option to view 90% of his work! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_MilliganSo if anyone bumps into a film print of Milligan, give me a shout. Theres probably a few more out there. |
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