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Post by Bobby Clark (synthpopalooza) on Oct 14, 2013 0:32:38 GMT
There were rumours that one of the two missing Dad's Army episodes had been recovered, but this is uncomfirmed.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2013 10:09:19 GMT
The place for everyone to get up to date information regarding general TV recoveries will be at Missing Believed Wiped on 21st December at the NFT! That's traditionally the event where a rundown of the significant finds for that year is given.  |
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Post by Paul McDermott on Oct 14, 2013 10:10:51 GMT
The place for everyone to get up to date information regarding general TV recoveries will be at Missing Believed Wiped on 21st December at the NFT! The countdown begins!  |
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Post by Alan Hayes on Oct 14, 2013 10:45:02 GMT
However, I think that anybody who's frequented this board for a while, read various publications, studied various websites, etc, etc would realise that a find of that magnitude, from a single location, was a non starter. Possibly the only conceivable source could be if somebody had half-inched a significant proportion of what came back from down under in 1975. If you're trying to imply that all 11 prints didn't turn up in one location, that seems a bit disingenuous. Why should the story we've been told be a deception? If there's anything that can be learned from Philip Morris' search and recovery of these prints, it's that previous wisdom, whether from this board, various publications or websites, was inaccurate. The likelihood of finding a complete and a nearly complete story in one location is surely far stronger than finding them in separate places. If the latter, I would expect various orphaned episodes and not all (or nearly all) the pieces needed to make up just two stories. |
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Post by Richard Develyn on Oct 14, 2013 12:42:06 GMT
If there's anything that can be learned from Philip Morris' search and recovery of these prints, it's that previous wisdom, whether from this board, various publications or websites, was inaccurate. +1 Richard |
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Post by Alex Dering on Oct 14, 2013 12:58:48 GMT
One detail I'm eagerly waiting to hear filled in: "WHEN did Phil Morris find those dust-covered canisters?" If he found them last year, or two years ago, then I'm much more inclined to believe that there are more episodes to be revealed. If he found them three months ago? Well, I hope he keeps looking in Africa because, by my back-of-the-envelope count (using broaDWcast.com's resources), there's about another 60 episodes that could be sitting in various spots in Africa.
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Post by Paul McDermott on Oct 14, 2013 13:13:30 GMT
If there's anything that can be learned from Philip Morris' search and recovery of these prints, it's that previous wisdom, whether from this board, various publications or websites, was inaccurate. +1 Richard As we well know, logic merely enables one to be wrong, with authority!  It's the old knowledge versus certainty thing, you bang up against it everywhere - even in the hunt for old film!  Happily, the benefit of a modification to our existing model includes the extraordinary discoveries currently being enjoyed the world over. Perhaps in future we might consider quoting this bit of Douglas Adams on the first page of the next Missing Episodes guide: "...though it cannot hope to be useful or informative on all matters, it does make the reassuring claim that where it is inaccurate, it is at least definitively inaccurate. In cases of major discrepancy it was always reality that's got it wrong." Until and unless, y'know - PM actually puts himself and many others out of work by eventually finding everything?  |
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Post by Richard Develyn on Oct 14, 2013 14:13:23 GMT
I'm also interested in whether anything else coming back has been checked to see it was in the rightly labelled canister.
(still holding out for Web 3)
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Post by Pete Morris on Oct 15, 2013 2:50:12 GMT
However, I think that anybody who's frequented this board for a while, read various publications, studied various websites, etc, etc would realise that a find of that magnitude, from a single location, was a non starter. Possibly the only conceivable source could be if somebody had half-inched a significant proportion of what came back from down under in 1975. If you're trying to imply that all 11 prints didn't turn up in one location, that seems a bit disingenuous. Why should the story we've been told be a deception? You haver misunderstood. Alan is saying that the rumours of 90+ episodes being found all at once is utterly impossible. That's a non-starter. Not the 11 that were found. |
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Post by Alan Hayes on Oct 15, 2013 12:07:39 GMT
If you're trying to imply that all 11 prints didn't turn up in one location, that seems a bit disingenuous. Why should the story we've been told be a deception? You haver misunderstood. Alan is saying that the rumours of 90+ episodes being found all at once is utterly impossible. That's a non-starter. Not the 11 that were found. I see, I thought you were referring to the 11, which of course is a find of "some magnitude" and without compare post-1981. I agree, 90 would have to come from many locations. |
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