Owen Conway
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Post by Owen Conway on Jul 17, 2022 21:05:47 GMT
I can't say I'm too big a fan of the BBC outsourcing their archive. I personally don't think third-party companies can be trusted unless they have a proven track record of storing film and other such material without any incidents resulting in the loss of material.
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Post by Owen Conway on Mar 17, 2017 12:11:09 GMT
Want an even more absurd idea? Request search warrants for every property in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and investigate them all for missing episodes
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Post by Owen Conway on Feb 7, 2017 22:24:55 GMT
Yes, but CGI on its own can't recreate the acting. That'll always have to be an educated guess of the part of the animators, and if they're in a hurry they'll avoid the problem completely and produce something photographically accurate but lifeless. By the way, if the Universe is actually infinite in size - and for all we know it could be - exact replicas of you, me, all the missing episodes of everything, and all the shows that never got made are out there at a very great distance because there are only so many ways you can arrange atoms in space before you repeat yourself. That idea is even less useful than arranging pixels randomly. What we need is something like Stargate SGI's quantum mirror & raid archives in alternative universes. That'll work. Of course, the problem with using the quantum mirror is that the episodes you bring back with you may not necessarily be the same as was broadcast in this universe. Yes, I have watched every Stargate episode ever
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Post by Owen Conway on Jan 30, 2017 10:43:50 GMT
So did John Cura shoot his telesnaps based on a time interval or just whenever he thought the screen looked cool, because I notice that there are no images in the middle of cross-fades, which you think would have happened at some point. We don't have the negatives, so we don't know for sure, but like any photographer he would have edited his stills. He got through so much film, that he would have processed everything on site and had his own darkroom and printer to enable him to do this. He certainly took a great interest in the quality of what he was producing. On the paper sleeves for 'The Other Man', one of the episodes was photographed from the repeat, which was a film recording replay. The quality is obviously not as good as the other episodes and he wrote a short note on the envelope to Alan Bromly to explain. Paul The BBC site containing the telesnaps is old and broken now. Do you think the BBC will ever post the archive of telesnaps on one of their new Doctor Who websites, along with the telesnaps not previously featured?
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Post by Owen Conway on Jan 12, 2017 13:54:17 GMT
We have been really spoiled by the hard work of the Doctor Who Restoration Team since the 1990's for sure. Look at all the extras and features and interviews we have gotten since the DVD range started. Then take a look at the extra's on The Enemy of the World and The Web of Fear DVD's and just imagine if every classic series DVD was produced the same way what we would have never experienced You can tell Enemy and Web were rushed releases.
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Post by Owen Conway on Jan 10, 2017 12:54:34 GMT
Sadly this rumor was just another false rumor, hopefully Phil founds more missing episodes someday. I hardly think it's been given enough time to die out...if something has been found, it's not like they'd release it immediately just because someone posts it on an internet forum. I am personally waiting until Spring, if we have nothing by then, then we know it's just another false rumour.
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Post by Owen Conway on Jan 9, 2017 21:43:43 GMT
I think it's rather a shame colour television was developed. Really? I can't say I've heard this before?! Fair enough. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate it's existence and often enjoy programs in colour...but equally, I really enjoy B&W television like Doctor Who. I'm sort of...in the middle. Perhaps saying it's a shame it was developed is a sweeping statement of sorts.
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Post by Owen Conway on Jan 9, 2017 14:10:28 GMT
I would be interested to hear Mr Tipple's thoughts on this one? I'd also take issue with the '60's Dr. Who is supposed to be seen in black and white' line of thought. It wasn't an artistic choice, it was a technical and budgetary constraint. Hartnell is on record saying he'd love for Doctor Who to be in colour. I think it's rather a shame colour television was developed. It may have been a technical and budgetary constraint at the time, but I now feel as though it adds to the atmosphere of a story, and I consider the colour version to be a hindrance to the story. As such, I have no intention of going anywhere near it.
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Post by Owen Conway on Jan 8, 2017 14:39:29 GMT
Yes, it would have - however, the decision to colourise the animation was made after the animation was already in production in B&W, and so it was handed to a Canadian company and colourised. I've just watched the colour episodes. The good news is that the mistake with Ben and Polly's costumes in episode 1 has been corrected. The bad news is that the Dalek's dome lights now appear to be permanently lit, and several scenes have now feature altered animation, the worst culprit being the end of episode 5 / reprise at the beginning of episode 6. The "Daleks conquer and destroy" scene now features a different group shot of Daleks, and 'left handed' Daleks coming out of the doorway. This scene on the black and white version closely matched the existing film clip. Now, on the colour version, it looks absolutely nothing like it. Yes, I noticed that some shots were altered slightly - however, I was not aware of the Episode 5/6 change. It makes me grateful to have the B&W on DVD (even though I haven't watched it yet!). As for the costume change error...Cosgrove Hall made a similar error with 'The Invasion', so I'm not too fussed about that, though it's good to see it was fixed for the colour version. Isn't there another error in Episode 1 where The Doctor is wearing the examiner badge, even though he hasn't arrived on Vulcan yet? I'm also curious - was the copy sent to the colourisation company a new version to that, that was released on the BBC Store and DVD, or did the colourisation company make these changes themselves? I'd really appreciate it if anyone could answer that!
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Post by Owen Conway on Jan 8, 2017 12:29:46 GMT
I'm still annoyed that the Americans apparently get a colour DVD version and we don't, when this is supposed to be a British show. i've no interest in Bluray and no way of playing R1 DVDs. Seems more than a little screwed up, to me. The BBC, over the past 5 years, have been bending over backwards for their American fans - as the BBC want to boost the surge of Doctor Who popularity in America. As such, Americans get little things that we don't. I too, think it is disgraceful - but that's BBC marketing for you... A "superior format" which the majority f the potential purchasers of this reease do not own and don't particuarly want to shell out to upgrade to. Rip off Britain again. Also, is it definite that the black and white animation was colourised? Wouldn't it have made more commercial sense to make it in colour & then release a black & white for the purists. Yes, it would have - however, the decision to colourise the animation was made after the animation was already in production in B&W, and so it was handed to a Canadian company and colourised.
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Post by Owen Conway on Jan 6, 2017 23:17:23 GMT
After watching the first three parts of The power of the daleks in colour, I was thinking to myself, are they going to do more of this kind of animation technique Release a Black and White version then release a colour version later The animation was done in B&W, and later colourised by some Canadian company, at the request of BBC America. They felt their viewer base would be more interested in the animation - if it was in colour. I, personally, will not be watching the colour version. Hell, I haven't even watched the B&W version yet.
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Post by Owen Conway on Jan 6, 2017 22:21:34 GMT
I'm only kidding, but I was just smiling over the notion of someone saying "It's two episodes that've been found. I've signed a confidentiality thing,so all I can say is that they run 24:11 and 24:17" Only in Doctor Who would people know! (Unless there are some that are exactly 25 mins?). As an addendum. If you use this example, you would know that the first episode is either The Abominable Snowmen, Episode 3 or The Space Pirates, Episode One and the second episode is Fury From the Deep, Episode 4. Source: Wikipedia (yeah, I know, I know - never use Wikipedia as a source.)Biggest lie teachers have ever told. Wikipedia is actually pretty reliable.
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Post by Owen Conway on Jan 5, 2017 22:40:45 GMT
I've always viewed Classic and NuWho in one sitting. I'm extremely impatient, I prefer it that way. However, I'm not easily offended by trivial things such as race issues in Toymaker, Tomb and Talons etc. Additionally, I refer to episodes/stories by their proper names. I'll be honest. As the first non-white in what was a KKK stronghold when I was 5 years old, I absolutely do not view the race, gender, ethnic, and cultural issues as trivial. Having said that... JNT once said about this that I have never forgotten: "Nothing exists outside of its own era. Remember that when 'Please Please Me' came out, it wasn't just novel - it was earth-shattering." (He was also referring to the portrayal of minorities and women in Doctor Who.) Every time I get upset at movies, comics, TV shows, etc., I always repeat that to myself so that I can cope better. It also gives me a long view of how much better society is now than it was when I was young. And I am glad that my all-time favourite TV show has caught up with the times and, honestly, is far better about it than anything I can think of on American TV. Now, I only get upset now when it winds up in politics. I was speaking of the way SJWs have trivialised racism and race issues in general. The word 'racism' has lost it's true meaning...
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Post by Owen Conway on Jan 5, 2017 14:16:48 GMT
Just curious - when did people start getting confused by this? IMHO, it is pretty clear what "episodes" means - you would never refer to the serial "The Tenth Planet" as one episode. Or is this just a function of having got into Doctor Who before Tom Baker where "episode" was part of the normal lexicon and we all had experience with the movie serials? Trouble is, since the series was revived in 2005 as mostly standalone 45 minute stories, the newer generation of fans do seem to generally refer to individual stories as "episodes"; they don't actually seem to realize that an episode means a single installment of a serial, they simply see "episode" as being interchangeable with "story". I regularly visit a few Doctor Who forums and Facebook pages and I've become so used to seeing comments like "my favrit Tom Baker episode is Talons of Weng Chang but its a bit racist" that these days I can barely summon up the energy to get irritated by it. It's probably not helped by the fact that most of them have never seen the original series as it was originally meant to be viewed, just either in bite sized chunks on YouTube or in one sitting on DVD. I've always viewed Classic and NuWho in one sitting. I'm extremely impatient, I prefer it that way. However, I'm not easily offended by trivial things such as race issues in Toymaker, Tomb and Talons etc. Additionally, I refer to episodes/stories by their proper names.
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Post by Owen Conway on Jan 2, 2017 0:46:45 GMT
I would rather steer the conversation toward the subject of Season 3 and 4 being rare for returns. Paul stated that the Airlock/UM2 returns were exciting for that reason. I'm curious to know if all serials in these two seasons have same same low odds. Are there serials that may have better odds of return over something else in those seasons? It seems to be an odd trend that the rarer episodes (like DMP 2) are found, whereas stories with a higher chances of being found (Marco) remain missing.
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