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Post by ianphillips on Oct 15, 2022 20:14:16 GMT
Still waiting for my first discovery. I started watching Doctor Who in 2014, one year after Enemy/Web.
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Post by ianphillips on Dec 9, 2021 10:15:31 GMT
So is this new episode 7 negative a stored field negative or a suppressed field negative? I think you answered in the initial post that it was a suppressed field negative, but I'm a little confused on the wording, so I wanted to confirm that was the case.
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Post by ianphillips on Mar 10, 2021 5:10:56 GMT
I've been wanting to try something like this with the UCL Mission to the Unknown and footage of the actors from other projects.
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Post by ianphillips on Jun 20, 2020 3:51:09 GMT
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Post by ianphillips on Jun 14, 2019 22:17:23 GMT
Would those film strips be playable and are they missing scenes? At first I thought no, but on closer inspection I'm certain at least one of them is missing. Look at the one labelled 3". I've gone through every single surviving clip from Power, and there is never one that looks like that. In the film strip there are clearly three Daleks facing roughly towards the camera and a fourth Dalek angled towards them on the right. There is no surviving shot even remotely similar to it other than one from episode four which I have pictured beside the film strips. This clip in question features three Daleks entering the plotting room, and they take up positions roughly matching those in the strip, however it is the fourth Dalek that causes issues. Pictured is the final frame of the surviving clip, but note, if you will, that the final Dalek is just entering the shot in the last frame whereas, in the film strips, it is visible in shot and in line for several frames. Additionally, the first and second Daleks in line are touching or nearly touching the entire time the body of the last Dalek is in shot whereas they are noticeably separate in the film strip, and this is all assuming that the image on the film strip is flipped from that in the clip. Similarly, I would suggest that strip 1 is part of the existing "Daleks conquer and destroy" bit unless that film strip is not flipped because there is no surviving clip wherein a Dalek goes through that door and exits out of the right of the shot. Finally, I can't make it out very well, but the film strip just peeking out from beneath strip 1 on the far right does not feature any shot I recognize. All of this leads me to conclude that at least one of these strips includes missing footage because no surviving clip has frames that match it. Attachments:
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Post by ianphillips on Jan 18, 2019 4:19:10 GMT
So how does the quality of these compare to the Graham Strong recordings and the David Holman recordings? From what I've heard so far I'm getting that these new tapes are somewhere between the two.
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Post by ianphillips on Oct 11, 2018 0:49:11 GMT
And if I were a betting man I would say those 2 are Daleks Master Plan #4 and Tenth Planet #4 but I don't gamble so who knows ? Honestly, at this point no one episode is much more likely to turn up than another. I would agree, though, that DMP 4 at least is a very good candidate.
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Post by ianphillips on Sept 19, 2018 21:25:46 GMT
Thanks a lot Qasim. Do we know how recently Destruction of Time has been updated or who runs it? I was on it the other day and none of the posts are linked. I'm trying to get my hands on Wiped, but unfortunately it's harder to get in the States at a reasonable time! Cheers and thanks again. A I don't know who runs DoT, but it was last updated on the 14th, so it's up to date and a great source for information on missing episodes.
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Post by ianphillips on Sept 12, 2018 2:55:57 GMT
I realize now I made a mistake in my original post. It wasn't the Seeds of Death that was recovered from the BFI. It was the Dominators.
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Post by ianphillips on Sept 9, 2018 16:13:50 GMT
Stories 47, 48, and 50 were all given to the BFI, and that's why we have them today. Do we know why the BBC didn't decide to donate story 49, The Space Pirates, as well?
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Post by ianphillips on Aug 25, 2018 16:58:41 GMT
Wow, your him? I've already watched that series fully, it's brilliant. Thank you.
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Post by ianphillips on Aug 25, 2018 2:27:23 GMT
Yep, any DMP return would be amazing. For me, the best Doctor Who serial ever made. If only *ONE MORE* Missing Episode is ever found, I hope it's The Destruction of Time. Episodes 1-4 and 6+12 of tdm are masterpieces. I'm not a fan of 5 and 7-11 but I could watch the others endlessly. The destruction of time is chilling. I agree to that, although personally I’d swap out 3 for 11. Destruction of Time is unrivalled, though.
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Post by ianphillips on Aug 25, 2018 2:26:18 GMT
I just did an entire youtube series on this. It's Fury for me with Evil 2nd and The Myth Makers 3rd. I'll be sure to check it out. Is your channel name the same as your account name? No, my channels’s called Patrick Mcgann. The first video in the series is this: m.youtube.com/watch?v=eUsR15pcohQ
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Post by ianphillips on Aug 24, 2018 19:57:02 GMT
I just did an entire youtube series on this. It's Fury for me with Evil 2nd and The Myth Makers 3rd.
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Post by ianphillips on Aug 9, 2018 23:28:40 GMT
On this subject, is there any record as to which programmes the master tapes were reused for (e.g. the 3:10 from Ascot is taped over The Power of the Daleks ep1)? Have any of these master tapes - such as the 1975/76 (?) tape that once held Fury from the Deep - survived to this day? If so (and one's clutching wildly at straws here), will there ever come a day when some sort of technology can recover the original recordings from the magnetic tape by removing the various layers of later recordings??? Or was there a wiping process used (before the tape is ready for reuse) that guaranteed that the Doctor Who serial was 100% gone, no trace there anymore, nothing residual in terms of a signal to recover..? I doubt it. I'm not an expert on the exact process of wiping, but from what I hear it's a bit like melting an ice sculpture. You could collect the water and refreeze it to create something new, but you can't un-melt it.
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