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Post by John Wall on Feb 23, 2024 9:14:53 GMT
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Post by John Wall on Feb 19, 2024 11:57:56 GMT
I know who the uploader is. I just watched this missing Dramarama: youtu.be/kCi2WlBnEOQbecause of you, Ray - between this, the episode of Lulu's Party and all of Champagne on Ice, you really are knocking them out the park this month! Yep, and he only works mornings 😇
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Post by John Wall on Feb 15, 2024 21:47:48 GMT
Did he actually return it, or just admit to having found it..? Phil returned prints of various episodes in 2018 and 2019. They are listed in the TIEA 2018 thread. 'My Old Man's a Tory' was amongst them and it was indeed an original 16mm print. In addition, I have secured for the BBC Archive a second 16mm print of 'My Old Man's a Tory', a better print of 'The Likely Lads: Entente Cordiale', also the original prints of 'A Star is Born' and 'Faraway Places', plus an original BBC Enterprises print of 'Dad's Army: The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage' as an alternative to the current archival print which has some scratching. Paul That’s a damn good haul 👍 Like Ray, whaddya do in the afternoon Paul 😇?
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Post by John Wall on Feb 15, 2024 20:54:42 GMT
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Post by John Wall on Feb 11, 2024 9:12:23 GMT
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Post by John Wall on Feb 10, 2024 9:36:43 GMT
TPTV is showing the 1967 movie “They came from beyond space” at 13-00 today.
Worth watching for the proto Nestene sphere and the lead driving a vintage car.
It was released on 1 May 1967.
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Post by John Wall on Feb 10, 2024 9:16:03 GMT
I suspect the animations, like a lot of Doctor Who produced over the last 60 years, has a comparatively small budget, relying instead on the skill, ambition, dedication and love of the industry professionals involved. How very Doctor Who. The animations are done by commercial companies. That no one seems to have been able to make the sums add up to animate the two missing episodes of the Crusades - seemingly due to the number of characters/costumes - tells us something. However, something like Power or Evil is a different matter. Daleks are DW’s biggest monsters, so will probably sell well, and you don’t have to worry about different costumes and facial expressions! The financial arrangements with the animators probably vary. A commercial organisation needs to be profitable so that they can invest, pay dividends, etc. If work is thin the balance can tip towards the customer. In most cases, however, there’s likely to be a discount for a bulk purchase. If, hypothetically, it takes one week to animate one DW episode then placing an order for four, five or six should reduce the cost per episode as it’s guaranteed work for people which is good news. Going back to the demand the profit margin can reduce or even disappear if there isn’t much work as it can be important to keep people ready for the upturn - it may even be worth making a small loss. This happened in the construction industry in the early 2010s, after the financial crash, when prices became very competitive. A lot of things depend on market conditions and understanding these is key to getting a good deal.
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Post by John Wall on Feb 6, 2024 22:46:10 GMT
That's very encouraging news Bruce!I'm always lost in my bubble of buying classic Who blu-rays and animation Steelbooks that I overlook the fact that it's also a commercial enterprise and that healthy sales equate to healthy revenue and thus further releases.I will be buying more animations without a doubt. That’s something that really needs hammering home, DW makes money for Auntie and as long as that’s the case BluRays, animations, etc will continue.
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Post by John Wall on Feb 6, 2024 0:55:33 GMT
To maybe get a better feel of how decisions are made, I'm curious how much markup there actually is and how much the animators are paid for their work, how much the rt gets paid for their input and whether these are financially profitable for bbc They’re obviously profitable. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t be made. The rest of your questions, you won’t get an answer to because, to be frank, it’s none of your business. Absolutely. From one end you’ve got the cost of paying the animation studio, etc, etc, from the other it’s worth noting that the likes of Amazon, HMV, etc get a cut. However, overall there must be at least a reasonable ROI for the releases to continue. One thing we can conclude is that animation isn’t affordable with the level of sales realised.
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Post by John Wall on Feb 5, 2024 14:55:59 GMT
To maybe get a better feel of how decisions are made, I'm curious how much markup there actually is and how much the animators are paid for their work, how much the rt gets paid for their input and whether these are financially profitable for bbc Look at, for example, the end credits for an animated story such as Evil and start counting the number of people involved in the animation. Some of those are only going to do a few hours but others are going to be employed for weeks and weeks. I dunno how much they’re paid but it’s going to be considerably more that the National Living Wage - and then there are the overheads.
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Post by John Wall on Feb 4, 2024 20:48:57 GMT
Whaddya do in the afternoons Ray 😇?
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Post by John Wall on Feb 3, 2024 21:45:21 GMT
It's about time they released another B&W season! Well, there’s insufficient funds in the BluRay budget for animation so let’s see: Season 1. Marco Polo missing but there are no telesnaps for Episode 4. Season 5. Wheel has two surviving episodes, an animation for the start of Episode 1 and telesnaps for the missing episodes. Season 6. Space Pirates has one surviving episode and no telesnaps. Without funds for animation a BluRay release could do little with either Marco Polo or Space Pirates. It’s difficult to see the point of a telesnap reconstruction for six out of seven episodes. My hope is that Wheel will be animated for the “standard” DVD/BluRay range which would mean that it could be included in a future BluRay release of Season 5.
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Post by John Wall on Feb 3, 2024 17:57:17 GMT
Exactly. Also, since it does contain a larger area and cleaner image, it would be suitable to transfer the scenes to the restored footage when it's fully restored. Plus, if the B&W film sequence print has the Chroma dots, we can use the color recovery method on it while the rest of the episodes gets manually colorized. A black and white sequence print would not have chromadots by nature of how chromadots come into being ie: via taking a b&w film of a tv monitor where they forgot to filter out the colour information. So the three RGB dots on the screen will all have different values to be counter worked out from the b&w telerecording. If it was film , filmed on location there wouldn't be any chromadots because there is no monitor involved. I can easily explain this in more details via private message. A basic understanding of how television was made back then would make it all clear it is quite simple really but without knowing the technology back then it won't be discernable Just file it with “NTSC prints” and “Beta scans”.
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Post by John Wall on Feb 2, 2024 14:01:47 GMT
March 18th is showing as the release date on hmv for season 15....lots of chatter on various groups about season 6 coming soon. I really hope not. I understand why they did 2 without the crusade but I think space pirates would be such a good animation and it would really suck for a collection to come out without it and it get one later down the road. A Troughton set is long overdue and Season 6 is obviously the most likely candidate. However, 'The Space Pirates' would almost certainly have to be animated first since there is so little visual material available to make a reconstruction. Indeed, it could potentially make a great animation and I think it would really benefit from the process, although with no indication that this story is coming any time soon in cartoon form (nor, indeed, Season 5's 'The Wheel in Space'), I fear we might have to wait a little longer for Pat to make his Collection debut... Those two are the obvious Troughton seasons and Five has the advantage that Wheel has two surviving episodes. I’m happy to have another colour season if it means getting an animated Wheel or Space Pirates.
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Post by John Wall on Feb 1, 2024 23:41:43 GMT
I may well cancle my amazon order and try an in person order at hmv where I can pick it up on the day or the a different vendor. I miss zoom. 10% off every order with a fresh email address and would regularly turn up the Friday or Saturday before release. Just amazon are giving me no reason to stay, late delivery no cheaper elsewhere. I'm a hungry who fan lol I’m away for a long weekend on the 25th so I’m not that bothered!
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