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Post by Alistair Gordon on Oct 19, 2012 5:50:27 GMT
Simply prepare a flyer saying that a collector will pay good money for any old films, give contact details and then post through the letterboxes in your area.Or get a distribution company to do it for you thus covering a larger area (how much would a national distribution cost?) .Probably has a better chance of success than spending money putting an advert in a S.Leone newspaper.
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Post by Ash Stewart on Oct 19, 2012 6:38:27 GMT
It's worth a try... Probably get nothing of note, but you never know. There's a slim chance, but given the choice between slim and none I'd take slim any day of the week. The cost of national distribution would be prohibitive, though; remember there are circa 20 million households in the country...  |
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Post by John Wall on Oct 19, 2012 7:49:55 GMT
You'd get a lot of people offering stuff you don't want and if it's not phrased well they'd expect you to buy it.
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Post by Richard Bignell on Oct 19, 2012 8:23:08 GMT
(how much would a national distribution cost?) To reach all the occupied households in the UK, you'd be looking at around £865,000 plus the cost of producing 21.5 million leaflets in the first place... |
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Post by cjones on Oct 19, 2012 9:09:43 GMT
The idea of offering money for eps was discussed on a previous thread about a week ago, and the consensus was that it was not a good one. Its sole advantage it that it gets more people looking.
Wouldn't it be simpler (if equally time-consuming) to compile a list - region by region - of every antique, house clearance and s/h shop, and systematically go through it every 2-3 months, phoning up each and asking if any film has come in?
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Post by D. Frame on Oct 19, 2012 13:07:12 GMT
(how much would a national distribution cost?) To reach all the occupied households in the UK, you'd be looking at around £865,000 plus the cost of producing 21.5 million leaflets in the first place... O, quite cheap then, really. Now where did I put my wallet? |
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Post by Neil Megson on Oct 19, 2012 15:49:58 GMT
Wouldn't it be simpler (if equally time-consuming) to compile a list - region by region - of every antique, house clearance and s/h shop, and systematically go through it every 2-3 months, phoning up each and asking if any film has come in? If anyone has the time, inclination and money for the 'phone bill to do this, it's a good idea - but what happens when they say "yes, we have 50 cans of film from a house clearance, unlabelled, no way of viewing them" - who's going to volunteer to check out every find ? I suppose anything could turn up - not just DW and other TV, but missing feature films, shorts, educationals, home movies of historic occasions... |
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Post by cjones on Oct 19, 2012 16:33:31 GMT
I often thought it would be a good idea for some one to start a society with a mission to buy up all home-recorded film they can get their hands on from the 30s/40s/50s/60s, digitise it, and make it available to social historians etc. There must be thousands of hours of film which will go to ruin because no-one can view it and thinks it's worthless. Perhaps such a society could also have a remit to look for lost episodes. But then, we've gone down that road very recently on another thread...
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Post by Simon Collis on Oct 21, 2012 20:49:39 GMT
I often thought it would be a good idea for some one to start a society with a mission to buy up all home-recorded film they can get their hands on from the 30s/40s/50s/60s, digitise it, and make it available to social historians etc. There must be thousands of hours of film which will go to ruin because no-one can view it and thinks it's worthless. That's a great idea. Only question is who is going to pay for it? Good luck getting central government funding these days... Perhaps such a society could also have a remit to look for lost episodes. But then, we've gone down that road very recently on another thread... I'm sure if such a society existed, they'd pretty quickly be contacted by the relevant interested parties and would be amenable to turning over any material found. |
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Post by jackw28 on Oct 21, 2012 21:06:26 GMT
i'm gonna see if i can get my parents to find me a doctor who film print, per se: the time meddler ep. 4(unedited), and maybe even missing episodes, like: the crusade ep.4, the highlander, any eps, so, we'll see happens in a week, or in christmas.
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Post by stevendoig on Oct 21, 2012 21:27:46 GMT
Yep, I'm going tae ask my mum and dad for a missing episode for christmas as well.
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Post by Steven Sigel on Oct 22, 2012 10:26:30 GMT
I think there is a misconception on just how much film is out there vs how many dr who prints were made. I buy up large collections all the time and currently have over 10,000 reels of film. And I suspect I've had 10 times that much go through my hands over the past few decades. The idea that you could buy up random collections and find anything missing is very unlikely.
In terms of who prints, from the research Jon Preddle has done I don't think that
More than a half dozen copies (if that) were printed for any given episode. And most of those are known to have been destroyed.
It's not impossible to find something, but you would have to be prepared to spend a lot of money and go through a lot of film.
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Post by Rob Moss on Oct 22, 2012 10:42:33 GMT
i'm gonna see if i can get my parents to find me a doctor who film print, per se: the time meddler ep. 4(unedited), and maybe even missing episodes, like: the crusade ep.4, the highlander, any eps, so, we'll see happens in a week, or in christmas. Pack it in. |
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Post by Daniel Hornby on Oct 22, 2012 11:26:12 GMT
i'm gonna see if i can get my parents to find me a doctor who film print, per se: the time meddler ep. 4(unedited), and maybe even missing episodes, like: the crusade ep.4, the highlander, any eps, so, we'll see happens in a week, or in christmas. Pack it in. Rob, if he's actually 13, he's just genuinely deluded and like most 13 year olds who think they can do anything because us old folk are too slow these days! |
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Post by jackw28 on Oct 22, 2012 20:26:56 GMT
Then i'll just do it myself, though it will be very hard. i know more about hoaxes and rumours than you think!
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