Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on May 15, 2012 12:42:50 GMT
I know the members of the Forum were talking about this one in 2005, before I joined, so this isn't a new find (read on), but there a couple of things I ought to mention....
to reacquaint yourselves:-
cinema.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=3&ti=1,3&Search_Arg=dial%20m%20for%20murder&Search_Code=GKEY^&SL=None&CNT=50&PID=-H9YrbbxWCjMS2Xb_-mU9EZqlJ&SEQ=20120515052608&SID=42
""Dial M for murder (Special : 1967)
Dial M for murder / produced by ABC ; produced by David Susskind in conjunction with Rediffusion Ltd. of London ; directed by John Moxey ; adapted for television by Frederick Knott.
United States ; Great Britain.
[1967-11-15 (9 PM PST)]
Version: [Probably a pre-broadcast version consisting of 80 min. of takes of part of the show only].
Cast: Laurence Harvey (Tony Wendice); Diane Cilento (Margot Wendice); Hugh O’Brian (Max Halliday); Cyril Cusack (Chief Inspector Hubbard); Nigel Davenport (Lesgate).
...: Special.
Source: 1952 Broadway play by Frederick Knott.
Broadcast on ABC.
Record date: December 19, 1966.
Summary: "Londoner Tony Wendice has married for money, but money isn’t enough. Tony has his pride, and his wife has wounded it by seeing another man. To satisfy his ego, and collect a tidy inheritance, Tony devises an elaborate plot to murder his beloved"--TV guide, Nov. 15, 1967.
...: PRESERVATION HISTORY: Preserved at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Credits heading(s): Knott, Frederick. Dial M for murder.
BBID (expression): 31949
Database: Film and Television Archive
Location: Non-circulating SRLF archival copy
Inventory Number: T71004
Collection: TV Television Collection
Format: 1 videoreel of 1 (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 2 in.
Notes: ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: High-band, original.""
My two observations:_
1)
IT'S COLOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obviously, Rediffusion were not showing colour at the time, and this was obviously done for export (like TITJ, some Palladium shows etc), rare, but did occur, as we know.
Now was it a two camera thing or was converted (colour to B/W, and NTSC to PAL)? Either way the BFI's copy is not colour.
2)
The catalogue states that 80 minutes was all that was on the tape. Now the show WAS 120 minutes long....BUT HANG ON....was that in the US or also for the UK transmission on 07/05/68 (about two months before the change to Thames/LWT), because in the US, the adverts even in the 1960's could easily take up one third of the allotted broadcast time....
to reacquaint yourselves:-
cinema.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=3&ti=1,3&Search_Arg=dial%20m%20for%20murder&Search_Code=GKEY^&SL=None&CNT=50&PID=-H9YrbbxWCjMS2Xb_-mU9EZqlJ&SEQ=20120515052608&SID=42
""Dial M for murder (Special : 1967)
Dial M for murder / produced by ABC ; produced by David Susskind in conjunction with Rediffusion Ltd. of London ; directed by John Moxey ; adapted for television by Frederick Knott.
United States ; Great Britain.
[1967-11-15 (9 PM PST)]
Version: [Probably a pre-broadcast version consisting of 80 min. of takes of part of the show only].
Cast: Laurence Harvey (Tony Wendice); Diane Cilento (Margot Wendice); Hugh O’Brian (Max Halliday); Cyril Cusack (Chief Inspector Hubbard); Nigel Davenport (Lesgate).
...: Special.
Source: 1952 Broadway play by Frederick Knott.
Broadcast on ABC.
Record date: December 19, 1966.
Summary: "Londoner Tony Wendice has married for money, but money isn’t enough. Tony has his pride, and his wife has wounded it by seeing another man. To satisfy his ego, and collect a tidy inheritance, Tony devises an elaborate plot to murder his beloved"--TV guide, Nov. 15, 1967.
...: PRESERVATION HISTORY: Preserved at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Credits heading(s): Knott, Frederick. Dial M for murder.
BBID (expression): 31949
Database: Film and Television Archive
Location: Non-circulating SRLF archival copy
Inventory Number: T71004
Collection: TV Television Collection
Format: 1 videoreel of 1 (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 2 in.
Notes: ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: High-band, original.""
My two observations:_
1)
IT'S COLOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obviously, Rediffusion were not showing colour at the time, and this was obviously done for export (like TITJ, some Palladium shows etc), rare, but did occur, as we know.
Now was it a two camera thing or was converted (colour to B/W, and NTSC to PAL)? Either way the BFI's copy is not colour.
2)
The catalogue states that 80 minutes was all that was on the tape. Now the show WAS 120 minutes long....BUT HANG ON....was that in the US or also for the UK transmission on 07/05/68 (about two months before the change to Thames/LWT), because in the US, the adverts even in the 1960's could easily take up one third of the allotted broadcast time....