Hmmm......Rumblings in the jungle.......

[John Wall]

I was intrigued to look back and found this:

22 Feb 2013 at 2:38pm by davidstead

Having previous experience of the type of answers Paul can make to missing episodes queries, I would read the specifics of Paul's answers carefully.
He mentions the off the cuff remark about Power saying if it has been found, he hasn't seen it. Not that he doesn't know whether or not it's been found!

I mentioned the specifics of the G4/UM eps find about 3 weeks before they were announced to Paul and was given misleading statements from him.

I have recently heard from several close friends that something seems to be happening on the missing episodes front, from Africa. This seems to correspond with information Paul told me 2-3 years back.

Maybe there is more to Dan Hall's announcement than we think?

It would be interesting to hear what other people have heard from reputable sources......

Now, we know that the EotW/WoF prints were definitely back in the UK by the end of April so this isn't too far before.

[Nicholas Fitzpatrick]

Nov 24, 2013 21:39:25 GMT John Wall said:

Now, we know that the EotW/WoF prints were definitely back in the UK by the end of April so this isn't too far before.

End of April? Sometime in 2011 or 2010 based on when people started hearing rumours about a return of Enemy and Web from Nigeria (though that rumour seemed to include some missing Wheel episodes as well). There were 2 reports of film shipments arriving in 2011, one early in the year, one in September.

[Daniel Y. Shin]

Nov 25, 2013 3:48:00 GMT Nicholas Fitzpatrick said:

There were 2 reports of film shipments arriving in 2011, one early in the year, one in September.

Not Who according to the rumor that Mr. Morris hands over all his prints to the BBC immediately... can't fathom where it started however

[briancook]

apparently the 'DWRT' spent up to 100 hours per episode restoring them.
someone else do the maths.

[John Wall]

Nov 25, 2013 3:48:00 GMT Nicholas Fitzpatrick said:

Nov 24, 2013 21:39:25 GMT John Wall said:

Now, we know that the EotW/WoF prints were definitely back in the UK by the end of April so this isn't too far before.

End of April? Sometime in 2011 or 2010 based on when people started hearing rumours about a return of Enemy and Web from Nigeria (though that rumour seemed to include some missing Wheel episodes as well). There were 2 reports of film shipments arriving in 2011, one early in the year, one in September.

There was nothing to substantiate those. Really dumb things like consignments of film cans being sent by sea from Nigeria to the UK via Zambia - which is landlocked !

[John Wall]

Nov 25, 2013 8:55:04 GMT briancook said:

apparently the 'DWRT' spent up to 100 hours per episode restoring them.
someone else do the maths.

We have the dates for the work on EotW/WoF from the DWM article.

[Daniel Y. Shin]

Nov 25, 2013 9:10:36 GMT John Wall said:

There was nothing to substantiate those. Really dumb things like consignments of film cans being sent by sea from Nigeria to the UK via Zambia - which is landlocked !

I agree. Just a silly coincidence that two years later the person alleged to have received those unsubstantiated shipments returns two serials to the BBC. Nothing more will come of it though, certainly no more lost serials from such a large (allegedly three ton!) haul. No siree. No point in holding my breath. Philip Morris was busy attending celebrations dedicated to the 50th, hardly searching around in Africa. Marco what?

[John Wall]

Nov 25, 2013 9:38:39 GMT Daniel Y. Shin said:

Nov 25, 2013 9:10:36 GMT John Wall said:

There was nothing to substantiate those. Really dumb things like consignments of film cans being sent by sea from Nigeria to the UK via Zambia - which is landlocked !

I agree. Just a silly coincidence that two years later the person alleged to have received those unsubstantiated shipments returns two serials to the BBC. Nothing more will come of it though, certainly no more lost serials from such a large (allegedly three ton!) haul. No siree. No point in holding my breath. Philip Morris was busy attending celebrations dedicated to the 50th, hardly searching around in Africa. Marco what?

Who was it said that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit ?

I have no idea what may, or may not, have been recovered in the last six weeks or so - seems PM was out looking on 10/11 October.

[John Wall]

Nov 25, 2013 23:55:14 GMT Dan Kolb said:

Nov 25, 2013 9:10:36 GMT John Wall said:

There was nothing to substantiate those. Really dumb things like consignments of film cans being sent by sea from Nigeria to the UK via Zambia - which is landlocked !

But The Zambezi river leads to the sea.  

Most rivers tend to lead to the sea or a lake....

I reckon you'd need a combined cargo ship/hovercraft that was capable of going round the bottom of Africa......