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Post by Rob Moss on Jun 2, 2023 19:54:11 GMT
At Utopia 2023 convention Philip Morris has promised the number of missing episodes will go down. He’s says there’s 4 episodes in private hands in the UK and 2 episodes overseas. Personally I don’t think so. Either way I don’t think we the fans will get anymore episodes but anyway just wanted to report what he said 🙂 If you personally don't think so, I wonder why you choose to then rile people up with your choice of subject header? In truth this isn't new information. The six episodes in private hands isn’t new information, but “the number of missing episodes will go down soon” is, by all accounts.
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Post by Rob Moss on May 1, 2023 22:26:12 GMT
I believe some of episode two film trims were from 35 mm especially the cave interior scene shot at Ealing Episode One of Krotons and ep 6 of Wheel is all 35mm so they too look glorious Krotons and Wheel are both 35mm telerecordings from 625-line VT source, so wouldn’t be true HD.
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Post by Rob Moss on Mar 29, 2023 10:41:51 GMT
Why was it considered unreasonable to do the same with Episode 1 of Invasion of the Dinosaurs, an episode which had a head start over Mind of Evil, in that a partially coloured version already existed (thanks to the chroma dot process), whereas only a purely b/w print had been available for colouring Episode 1 of Mind of Evil? What was the over-riding factor that made it economically unviable to restore that single episode of Invasion of the Dinosaurs? Because recolouring the first episode of The Mind of Evil took much longer to do than planned and was a very stressful endeavour for those concerned. There wasn't the will or the money available to go through the same process again at that time. That is incorrect. Episodes 2-6 of The Mind of Evil only had chroma-dot recovery applied, so only required a fraction of the time, money and effort compared with that put into recolouring Episode 1 from scratch. Although what you’ve said is quite true, this does raise the question of why it was viable to manually colour a single episode for the Mind of Evil release but not for the Invasion of the Dinosaurs release.
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Post by Rob Moss on Mar 5, 2023 17:18:49 GMT
What you need is this link (in fact posted above already, I see), which gives all the details of which fans of the show recorded which episodes - missingepisodes.blogspot.com/p/soundtracks.htmlNo one can answer the question asked, because audio tapes and other details were not collected for serials which exist in full. Hence there are no fan recordings prior to 'Marco Polo'. David Holman and Graham Strong were not the only people who recorded the show, there was also Richard Landen, James Russell, David Butler and Allen Wilson. But Graham's tapes superceded everything else because they are such high quality. He didn't record the early serials, and for those David Holman's recordings are the best of all those which have come to light. In fact, the latest find is the Randolph tapes, a collection of recordings from 60 episodes. I haven't heard them, myself, but presumably they have been deemed not useful, because none of the David Holman or Graham Strong episodes have been removed from the blogspot table (see above link). My understanding is that the Randolph tapes are complete, and include all reprises and full credits with continuity announcements missing from previous off-airs in a few cases.
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Post by Rob Moss on Jan 29, 2023 21:41:07 GMT
Sorry to resurrect an old thread but I see with the upcoming release of The Sea Devils and The Day of The Daleks on blu ray we now have all these omnibus editions restored for us to enjoy again. Many thanks for all involved Although I would be very surprised if the eventual S13 box set doesn’t include an omnibus Seeds of Doom.
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Post by Rob Moss on Jan 27, 2023 4:29:05 GMT
Good to hear Season 9 is getting the Blu-ray treatment! And nice to see Katy Manning doing some new business, but these promo trailers seem to be a complete waste of budget – I'm constantly irked, especially, that the so-called writer/director always gets a whopping credit at the very beginning. It's not about him for goodness sake! They’re presented as mini episodes, and accordingly they have writer/director credits as a full episode would. Not sure why this irks you. In terms of being a waste of budget, the whole point of these is to engage potential buyers and show the set off as well as possible, which they do extremely well, IMO.
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Post by Rob Moss on Oct 29, 2022 16:28:41 GMT
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Post by Rob Moss on Oct 10, 2022 21:10:23 GMT
Well, one episode, The Lion, was found a few years ago... Other than that, it might be best to edit the thread-title, which you can do, Andy via the drop-down menu on your first post. 23 years ago, John..!
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Post by Rob Moss on Oct 2, 2022 12:54:31 GMT
Nice discovery bit I'm not going to get wound up over it as the untouched tapes will never be shared or be available. To me its already been decided that the best place for them is in an archive where only the privileged or well-connected will have easy access to them. Except that for any project where they would add benefit, they will be freely available. You’ll always be able to access the best quality version of the episode, so why are you getting snarky about not having access to these particular recordings? Did you get this wound up by not being able to access the raw recordings made by all the other people who recorded DW off-air..?
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Post by Rob Moss on Sept 22, 2021 19:46:01 GMT
Wasn’t AYBS entirely studio based..? When was there any film..?
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Post by Rob Moss on Jun 27, 2021 9:47:08 GMT
I expect the prints exist. Well of course they exist - the reason the episodes look so good on the blu ray is that they used the film prints as a basis for the restoration. There’s also an extended scene that was included because one of the film prints was actually an earlier edit.
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Post by Rob Moss on Nov 14, 2020 16:36:03 GMT
It wasn’t Gordon Astley, it was Tim Edmunds.
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Post by Rob Moss on Oct 26, 2020 18:30:20 GMT
...and I've just removed a link to a bootleg DVD site. Please remember that we can't allow copyright material to be traded via any means.
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Post by Rob Moss on Oct 22, 2020 21:58:24 GMT
The definition of "socially aware" is:
"alert to injustice in society, especially racism".
So can we please stop using it like it's a bad thing?
Actually this entire thread has gone way off-topic, so let's get back on track please.
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Post by Rob Moss on Oct 22, 2020 21:50:22 GMT
These sellers beggar belief, if anyone with half a brain & has been a Doctor Who fan for any serious amount of time would know all about the much lamented Restoration Team & the people involved with it, they would had they found something out with the internet, try & contact via PM, Steve Roberts, Paul Vanezis, Mark Ayres ,etc via social media with pictures! Maybe Mr 16mm gets his "mates" to ghost bid & buy to make things look good? You're assuming that the seller is interested in returning the material more than they are interested in making a few quid. Remember that as a "fan community" we all know about the RT, but there are people with more casual interest who aren't on forums and who don't know about the Restoration Team.
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