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Post by Dylan Heath on Apr 14, 2017 20:34:15 GMT
Power Of The Daleks is my third favourite Doctor Who story of all time so I can't choose anything other than that, it manages to get all the elements of a good Doctor Who story in the right place while being a brilliant new Doctor story as well as in my opinion the best portrayal of the Daleks we have ever scene.
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Post by Dylan Heath on Apr 11, 2017 7:55:21 GMT
Evil would be the same amount of work as power. Both have 6 missing episodes. There's a lot more set and costume detail in Evil than Power however as it has the whole Victorian thing going on.
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Post by Dylan Heath on Apr 10, 2017 18:24:02 GMT
Power seemed to do well however they haven't released any statistics so we don't know. If it has turned over a profit we may get another animation, they'd probably be most likely to do a story with large name recognition like Evil Of The Daleks or Fury From The Deep as they'd sell the best. I really hope they animate evil of the daleks next, I've always wanted to watch it. I've watched the reconstruction, it's a bloody great story! Personally my most wanted would be The Daleks' Master Plan. Even though out of unanimated missing episodes I prefer Evil and Marco Polo and the project would be so big it's unlikely it'll happen any time soon, I just think that considering how unlikely to the point of near certainty that we'll never get it back and how absolutely brilliant episodes 1 to 5 and 12 are (some of Doctor Who's best in fact) I would want it most. Maybe one day when animation methods are cheaper....
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Post by Dylan Heath on Apr 7, 2017 15:11:26 GMT
I think The Macra Terror would be fantastic and would suit animation very well. Yeah especially with how surreal that one is.
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Post by Dylan Heath on Apr 6, 2017 20:02:20 GMT
Power seemed to do well however they haven't released any statistics so we don't know. If it has turned over a profit we may get another animation, they'd probably be most likely to do a story with large name recognition like Evil Of The Daleks or Fury From The Deep as they'd sell the best.
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Post by Dylan Heath on Mar 6, 2017 17:19:34 GMT
Looking for a needle in a haystack doesn't even cover how extremely hard, not to mention unlikely something like this would be to succeed. Even if you came across a house with someone who has one, they might not tell you, nor know, nor want to hand it over. There's far too many variables involved to make this even remotely feasible and honestly it's the most extreme desperation and clutching at straws I've ever seen from the Doctor Who community in regards to missing episodes.
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Post by Dylan Heath on Mar 4, 2017 10:17:18 GMT
I'm fairly sure that they'd put out a special edition DVD as recently discovered episodes usually sell really well. After all the two best selling DVDs are The Web Of Fear and Enemy Of The World. If Philip Morris does recover WoF3 I'd expect a special edition. They'd make one as I imagine it'd sell.
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Post by Dylan Heath on Mar 1, 2017 22:38:40 GMT
I'm fairly sure that they'd put out a special edition DVD as recently discovered episodes usually sell really well. After all the two best selling DVDs are The Web Of Fear and Enemy Of The World.
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Post by Dylan Heath on Feb 7, 2017 21:25:44 GMT
Sadly there are episodes we'll never seen again. I'm accepted that. It's really sad but ultimately you can't wish things back into existence - once they're gone, they're gone. I thought the recent attempt to bring Cushing back to Star Wars was exceptionally exciting. It cost many, many million of dollars and isn't anywhere near affordable for home use so it isn't something that applies directly to Doctor Who. However, I must admit, I have dreamt of recreating missing episodes, with full sets and actors wearing greenscreen masks and mo-cap, to digitally produce a likeness of Hartnell et al. It's nothing more than a pipe dream at the moment though, far far too expensive and the results aren't convincing enough, In the future however it certainly will be a possibility as the technology becomes better and cheap. Certainly not coming soon but I'm certain that it'll be possible in my lifetime.
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Post by Dylan Heath on Feb 6, 2017 18:42:58 GMT
I honestly think a computer guessing the frames will come round sooner than that being cheap though. But there isn't enough information to make that happen. If you have 0 existent frames of a 25 minute programme, it's all guesswork. If you have tele snaps that number in the 10s, not even 100s, then it's still guesswork. A computer is only as good as the information that you feed it. This isn't filling a gap of a handful of frames, or even a few dozen. This is hundreds and possibly thousands of missing frames between what currently exists. It will never happen that way. On the other hand, it may aid a CGI reconstruction. In the future GCI will certainly be able to create a convincing but inaccurate (with respect to the original footage) programme. Obviously that's true now but in the future using a variety of sources computers can build somewhat accurate reconstructions.
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Post by Dylan Heath on Feb 5, 2017 17:03:12 GMT
Computers are a lot faster than monkeys, we just need to wait until they're advanced enough which won't be longer than a few decades I should think considering how technology increases in power exponentially over time. Or alternatively they could use totally lifelike CGI that's bound to arrive before so long..... Mind you some of us will be in our dotage by then........ I honestly think a computer guessing the frames will come round sooner than that being cheap though.
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Post by Dylan Heath on Feb 5, 2017 9:21:38 GMT
Reminds me of Monkeys typing Shakespeare. Eventually they will do it, but it could take a million years. Same theory. Although I said similar with chroma dot recovery too... Computers are a lot faster than monkeys, we just need to wait until they're advanced enough which won't be longer than a few decades I should think considering how technology increases in power exponentially over time.
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Post by Dylan Heath on Feb 1, 2017 21:40:14 GMT
I reckon we have a good chance of getting Wheel back, along with Snowmen. If they were originally with Web and Enemy it stands to reason that they could potentially be tracked down. Unfortunately based on overseas sales we have less chance of finding stuff from Season 4... Let's hope they weren't in Jos as that burned down a couple of years ago.
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Post by Dylan Heath on Jan 31, 2017 22:02:45 GMT
I think I understand what you mean and it's something I have theorised for a while. Technology is getting exponentially better as days go by, for The War Machines there was a couple of seconds of frame missing in part 4 so for the DVD release they got a computer to predict what the frames would have been like and it looks absolutely indistinguishable from the actual thing. With that in mind say 20 to 40 years in the future, what if computers are so advanced that based on the script, telesnaps and other bits of material relating to the episode, would a computer be able to if a little inaccurately predict what each frame of missing episodes would have looked like? I know it's a bit out there but so was something like the Internet 20 years before it was invented, we know it's possible for computers to reach this kind of insane level of logical prediction if it was powerful enough so if I'm right we may have a viable alternative to original copies of the episodes even if the technology takes a few decades to develop.
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Post by Dylan Heath on Jan 21, 2017 15:01:06 GMT
There could be more episodes in the area if that is the case It's a remote possibility I suppose, most likely if there was anything there it's been thrown away at this point but if anybody had access to those buildings and a day to spare it may be worth a look. I'd be extremely surprised if anything turned up however. Is that particular building still in Mormon hands does anyone know?
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