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Post by Alex Taylor on Aug 14, 2013 8:15:57 GMT
If you run across any recordings of 'The Muppet Show' from ATV, please let me know. The UK edits of most of these are not in general circulation, and I've no idea if they still exist at all.
I can transfer Betamax tapes, if that's any help to you.
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Post by Alex Taylor on Jul 19, 2013 14:05:17 GMT
Because they were in the film-library, not at Enterprises, and as such nothing to do with her.
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Post by Alex Taylor on Jul 17, 2013 7:57:37 GMT
It still seems odd that they held off a dvd release until next year, i wonder if they have found something else? If I'm correct about the timescales, it hasn't been "held off" - it simply won't be *ready* until next year.
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Post by Alex Taylor on Jul 16, 2013 13:55:14 GMT
Based on the length of time stated to produce the other animations, next year was realistically the earliest it could happen. Dan Hall has mentioned that a 'normal' DVD release is usually commissioned around 18 months prior to the intended release-date, and Chris Chapman mentioned a few months back that discussions about the animation for Ice Warriors had started three years previously.
UWM:2 was recovered slightly under two years ago. If ~3 years is the time required to produce two animated episodes, then next year sounds about right for the release. Indeed, the very length of the delay implies animation - if they were just going to bung the episode on a DVD as an extra then we'd likely have heard about (or had) it by now.
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Post by Alex Taylor on Jul 15, 2013 18:50:46 GMT
I'm pretty sure the TP colourization wasn't an April Fools joke,they were pretty serious that TP4 had been found,even down to Michael Craze having recorded linking material for it.I think it was them that had been fooled.They did a follow up article a few months later having realized that the returned tape was blank but even then still believing that TP4's return was somehow imminent! The colourisation was an April Fool. The return of TP4 was reported as genuine, and was a separate unrelated story. The issue in which the news was reported went to press too late to pull the story, but they were able to squeeze a 'stop press' line of text down the side of the page.
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Post by Alex Taylor on Jul 15, 2013 17:29:16 GMT
I could be mistaken, but wasn't that one of Darren Gregory's bizarre cries for help/ attention? (Whatever his motivation is.......) He returned a blank uMATIC tape. But as far as I know the oil rig is a whole other yarn If you're thinking of the 1992 'recovery', it was a pair of Shibaden tapes which purported to hold a copy of the complete serial (two episodes per tape). Depending on which story you heard, either both tapes were blank, or else the recording on the second was only of Episode 3. Don't think it was DG, either, unless he was using a pseudonym.
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Post by Alex Taylor on Jul 15, 2013 17:27:26 GMT
Not sure where I heard/read about it but there was a rumour a private collector had all of the Macra Terror but wasn't sharing it, (and this was long before the RC twerp last year). I think that's generally believed to have originated with the 8mm off-screen film, which includes part of the opening titles from an episode of 'Macra'. The existence of this led first to the rumour that a complete copy of that episode existed as an off-screen recording, and this then became 'there's a complete copy of the story out there!'.
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Post by Alex Taylor on Jul 9, 2013 8:38:25 GMT
LETS INVADE TEXAS!! No declaring war - not allowed.... "This isn't war. This is pest-control." :-D
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Post by Alex Taylor on Jul 4, 2013 10:28:05 GMT
Although an awful lot of people use the two words interchangeably. See also 'filming' when referring to videotaping or recording...
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Post by Alex Taylor on Jun 28, 2013 21:49:03 GMT
Is there any method of getting back issues of DWM? I would like to see that article. eBay :-) I've recently completed my collection via that route. Plenty of issues being listed up there, usually quite cheaply.
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Post by Alex Taylor on Jun 28, 2013 17:28:26 GMT
W were able to do all of the censor clips for all of 'The Underwater Menace' for the budget we had. Paul Thanks, I thought that was the case from what I'd read. Are the Australians intending to hang onto the films for the foreseeable future? I'm sure I read somewhere a while back that there was a possibility that they would be disposed of at some point.
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Post by Alex Taylor on Jun 28, 2013 16:09:30 GMT
Hi Mark, The plan was to have a basic restoration of 'Air Lock', so I cobbled together an ending which is basically the same as was finally used in the DVD release. I think the transfers were done on the Wednesday, around mid July. I think I'd already done the closing by the weekend as a rough edit. We didn't want to go the whole hog restoring it because that is a lot of work and with no release, there would be no budget and therefore, no pay. However, towards the end of September, Terry turned up 'The Underwater Menace' part 2. I knew immediately from Ralph's description of the cuts in the opening two minutes, that it was the censored print from Australia, so we got that underway immediately as I knew we'd be screening that in full, and not 'Air Lock'. Sue Kerr at Worldwide authorised the finance for the scanning of the censor clips and the overall budget for cleaning and transferring the films. Paul On the subject of the censor-clips, are you able to tell us whether the other clips held in Australia were re-scanned at the same time, or was it just those for UWM?
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Post by Alex Taylor on Jun 26, 2013 17:15:37 GMT
Given the number of episodes to be covered, there will presumably be three volumes :-)
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Post by Alex Taylor on Jun 24, 2013 21:10:47 GMT
Sadly it is. He told me that he knows The Invasion 1 exist. Well it was really complicated Complete and utter bollocks from start to finish, in that case. Darren Gregory is a prolific hoaxer with a long and inglorious history going back at least as far as I can remember and probably longer. Whether he's behind the latest lot of rumours I have no idea, but I can't say I'd be surprised if he were. Over the years he's claimed to have (or know the whereabouts of) who knows how many of the missing episodes, but it's not true. Invasion:1 may or may not still exist somewhere, but one thing is certain: Darren doesn't have it.
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Post by Alex Taylor on Jun 24, 2013 21:07:31 GMT
Wasn't there some confusion between the first episodes of Invasion and Invasion of the Dinosaurs at some time? Yeah, a long-standing fan myth! The first place I recall reading it was in Peter Haining's "25 Glorious Years", although it's probably older than that. The theory goes that as IotD:1 was titled "Invasion" it was wiped by mistake in place of Invasion:1. This can be demonstrated to be nonsense, since Invasion:1 was wiped some years before IotD was even made... Additionally, tapes weren't wiped on the basis of the programme title; they were numbered.
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