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Post by thomgray on Sept 26, 2017 7:26:27 GMT
Yes Are You Sitting Comfortably was great, it linked to that Future Generations BBC trailer. Fantastic programme, and I remember watching it very clearly as a child.
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Post by thomgray on Sept 23, 2017 7:50:26 GMT
Hi all,
I'm looking for two documentaries I remember watching years ago that seem to have vanished without a trace.
The first is a programme called the Wonderful World of Puppets, broadcast in 2000 on BBC 2. There's some clips on YouTube but otherwise no mention. Anyone else remember it?
The other is even more obscure, it was a long programme called Watch Without Mother, broadcast on Channel 4 c1998-2000. It featured Oliver Postgate cartoons and Willo the Wisp. I cannot find a single reference to this programme anywhere, does anyone have ant info?
Many thanks
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Post by thomgray on Jan 30, 2017 20:50:40 GMT
What?
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Post by thomgray on Jan 2, 2017 23:21:56 GMT
Unearthly Child Part 1. Without it I think the Tribe of Gum would be incredibly tedious as that first ever episode really hooks you in. I'm also grateful for the pilot, even though it isn't all that enamouring on its own it provides a chance to see what was altered in the remount. It's incredible it exists at all!
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Post by thomgray on Dec 7, 2016 10:01:06 GMT
As a lot of people pointed out at the time, the practicalities of using cine film would have meant filming every episode impossible to achieve. You'd need dozens of reels and several cameras to capture a single episode. That's why the surviving 8mm clips are so short, cine film was not designed for hours of continuous filming. Plus even a single reel was expensive. Inventive idea, though.
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Post by thomgray on Nov 21, 2016 17:10:28 GMT
Just finished episode 2 after trooping home in the rain from HMV to buy myself a copy. There were only five copies left, the store assistant said they'd been selling like crazy. My hope is that high sales will push the BBC to do more!
Given the limitations faced by the production of this release (lack of time, less than half an episode's worth of existing footage, etc), this really is as good as it gets unless an episode (or six) gets found. I can see some of the reasons for the criticisms surrounding the animation, but any scene with a Dalek in just looks incredible. It's also great to have a disc with the telesnap version, let alone the surviving clips which I had heard were not going to be included originally.
All in all, with no new DW series this year, this really is the Doctor Who event of 2016!
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Post by thomgray on Nov 19, 2016 18:55:06 GMT
Many of us like to arrange our DW DVDs in transmission order, with sometimes strict rules. Does Shada go between Horns of Nimon and the Leisure Hive or stay in its Legacy box set? Does Scream of Shalka go right at the end of everything else or between Paul McGann and Christopher Eccleston?
But my big question is where do you place the Lost in Time boxset? So many orphan episodes without a proper home! Vote below...
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Post by thomgray on Nov 3, 2016 21:05:08 GMT
I'm really curious to see how they make animated opening credits in colour... And in black and white for that matter!
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Post by thomgray on Nov 2, 2016 21:32:12 GMT
Not exactly an extra feature as such, but maybe the Lion episode could be remastered now, as Vidfire wasn't able to be used on the Lost In Time DVD due to the fragile condition of the film. Maybe nowadays it could be cleaned up.
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Post by thomgray on Oct 13, 2016 11:35:03 GMT
My least expected episode would be the 'fourth' episode of Planet of the Giants, or possibly the first version of the Daleks that had to be remounted. Unexpected, but not my preferred choice of missing episode!
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Post by thomgray on Sept 6, 2016 23:05:39 GMT
There will be a DVD release too. Beyond excited
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Post by thomgray on Sept 6, 2016 23:04:06 GMT
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Post by thomgray on Sept 4, 2016 15:48:52 GMT
He also said that he heard they had found this one.He pointed to a photo of the massacre but that it was beyond repair. This is probably a question for another thread, but in what does it mean when they say film is not repairable? Even if individual frames were the only thing salvageable, they match the quality of a telesnap? I have this image in my head of film that is so decayed it falls apart when you touch it, like in The Time Machine when the main character visits the library and goes to lift a book from a shelf and it collapses into dust. Also, if anyone remembers the story of The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon, then maybe there is hope yet to find footage
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Post by thomgray on Aug 29, 2016 23:17:51 GMT
If this is true then it explains a lot... Looking forward to hearing more!
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Post by thomgray on Aug 21, 2016 7:19:39 GMT
This is easily the best quality animation for a recon! Cosgrove Hall folded a few years ago so unless it's an old clip it's unlikely to be them.
Breathtaking.
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