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Post by lousingh on Jun 9, 2023 23:59:11 GMT
With 6 missing episodes recovered from Philip Morris and 2 more from Paul Vanezis, the # of missing episodes will decrease to 91. We know that Philip Morris and Paul Vanezis are admins here and are monitoring the posts, but can't reveal any details about the episodes cause of NDA's, plus we really don't want a repeat of the omnirummor and WoF ep.3 being stolen. As long as we remain calm and respectful and refrain from leaking details, we should be fine. No, stop repeating rumour as fact and we'll all be fine. Thank you.
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Post by lousingh on Jun 9, 2023 16:25:32 GMT
It is theoretically possible to recover previous images if you have an ultra-clean version of what wiped it and if the original wiping was not perfect.
As a practical matter, not a chance.
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Post by lousingh on Jun 3, 2023 0:52:50 GMT
Maybe they already found one in Burnett's collection.
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Post by lousingh on May 27, 2023 3:19:16 GMT
None of us are gonna be around forever, So it's high time we stopped walking on eggshells, and these collectors are exposed (: Bluntly, this does not work. Look at it this way. There are numerous missing paintings that made their way into private hands. Heck, there are true crime shows which documented some people who have seen some of these missing works. Some people even know the names of the possessor. Some of these missing artworks have multi-million dollar rewards for their return, no questions asked. You don't see those being returned, do you? (Duggan from "City of Death", Part Three: "It would be an expensive gloat...") Also from the art world: one guy's mother destroyed a slew of priceless paintings to destroy the evidence when her son thought he might get arrested. Certain collectors might prefer destroying a missing episode if a fan of Doctor Who tried to apply pressure to them. (Think of Lon and Tegan in the cave with the curator in "Snakedance", Part Two and Part Three.) Aside: we are lucky that people have been kind enough to reveal that they have missing episodes. That is the reason why I am hopeful that they will be returned some day -- why reveal that you have them and allow an interested party verify their authenticity if you have no intention of returning them? I respect everyone who has negotiated with these collectors because of how touchy some of my fellow collectors are. We probably can't appreciate how hard everyone has worked to find these episodes.
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Post by lousingh on May 21, 2023 19:46:19 GMT
As a collector, I need to reiterate that the money may be completely irrelevant to those who have missing episodes. The fun is knowing that you have them, other people want them, and that they can't have them. The one thing that would work would be a trade of something equally desirable from someone who is willing to lose the deal for the benefit of fellow fans of Doctor Who.
I have made copies of a few ultra-collectibles for family and friends, which really irritated my fellow collectors to the point that several will not deal with me. ("I made a copy for my girlfriend's birthday" and "my late cousin was dying of cancer and he was a fan" do not fly among these people.) The people's standing in the rest of the collector community may concern them more than any psychological utility of doing good.
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Post by lousingh on Apr 20, 2023 23:16:17 GMT
I’ve often wondered if a random NTSC Pertwee episode or story could still be sitting in storage at some PBS station somewhere. I know it’s unlikely after all this time, but have all those PBS stations been checked? Not only for Doctor Who but other BBC material. I have a friend who checked with every PBS and Canadian station who broadcast colour Pertwees. Vancouver was the only possibility. They said that they had found some and sent them to the BBC office in Toronto, but the Toronto office never got them. I have a suspicion that the ultra-superior copy of "Terror of the Autons" floating around Canada was pilfered from that trove.
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Post by lousingh on Jan 17, 2023 2:22:16 GMT
Being idealistic like this is not practical. Paul V. has said that a number of collectors have missing stuff - not just Who - and won't release dubs to anyone. Most people in the world are not paragons of virtue. Except that several episodes that we can all see today were returned/on loan from people. I'd guess mostly the orphaned episodes - of which there are quite a few. Some of them may want to recover the cost of obtaining the film, which the BBC is loath to do. Others are like people sitting on missing art -- they have a private gloat. Some collectors just want to keep them because of their mindset as collectors. Just feel lucky that, aside from the 6 we seem to know about, most collectors of missing episodes have been more generous. And feel very lucky that our fandom made audiotapes of every episode, John Cura made telesnaps, that a college remade _Mission to the Unknown_, and that BBC are making animations of missing episodes.
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Post by lousingh on Dec 26, 2022 16:48:20 GMT
Bias alerts: 1. I think people should not update old productions to make them conform to modern sensibilities. I think we should see the biases of the time, warts and all.
2. I have seen productions of plays, musicals, and operas with Japanese, sub-Saharan Africans, Mexican, and Syrian actors and actresses playing Caucasian parts. I got used to it because the acting was superb. And I still laugh at Dave Allen's last scene from Hamlet sketch.
IMHO, the reproductions should be as faithful to the original as possible. I personally would put a disclaimer about actual Buddhist monks shaving their heads.
Because the video shows bald monks with more prototypically (stereotypically?) Asian, the animators needed to do a better job making sure that we could distinguish between the characters visually. I also would have striven to make the characters look as much like the actors who played the parts as possible.
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Post by lousingh on Sept 14, 2022 1:56:40 GMT
I just found out that the speculation that intelligent life predated humans is called "The Silurian Hypothesis" and is, indeed, named after "Doctor Who and the Silurians."
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Post by lousingh on Aug 12, 2022 22:29:49 GMT
That is an interesting theory. I don't know what younger fans think. I know that episodes being missing is more annoying and does not add a mystique to the series.
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Post by lousingh on Jul 15, 2022 23:45:04 GMT
I hope we’re all grown up and tolerant enough to avoid the pitchforks 👍 I’d like to see Space Pirates as it’d complete Season Six. It’s the second Robert Holmes story and there must’ve been something that got him the commission to write Spearhead. I don’t think there are Telesnaps for SP? Is there much visual material? I have seen a recon of The Space Pirates in the last year. Milo Clancy is one of Holmes's best characters. Also, as someone who actually remembers the moon landing, I will attest that the story is paced realistically for the space shots. I also liked the development of Madeleine Issigri and General Hermack throughout the story. The Space Pirates takes the expansive time scale to build its characters and their relationships. You can see the development of Robert Holmes as a writer after The Krotons.
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Post by lousingh on Jul 3, 2022 21:45:04 GMT
I subscribed to your YouTube channel. Thank you for all your work.
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Post by lousingh on May 15, 2022 4:23:50 GMT
I am a Buffalo, NY resident. The mass shooting was about 1 mile from where my wife was working. Their primary competitor locally closed all their stores early as either a security precaution or out of respect, depending on who you ask.
The suspect is in custody and pled nor guilty.
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Post by lousingh on Apr 21, 2022 5:43:41 GMT
I thought this was the episode which William Hartnell was given a personal copy. I recall people saying that his family watched it at Christmas sometimes.
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Post by lousingh on Apr 3, 2022 20:53:59 GMT
When I am watching the episode carefully, I prefer the telesnaps with the subtitles. When I have them on while I am doing other things, I prefer the narrations.
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