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Post by adamjordan on Sept 28, 2020 18:36:23 GMT
I have absolutely no idea what is happening with this seller. Or who and why someone would part with £140 for existing footage of inferior quality?
Very. Odd.
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Post by adamjordan on Aug 15, 2020 16:22:35 GMT
I'm sure I'm not alone in wondering if (hoping that) this will get a regular DVD release.
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Post by adamjordan on Aug 13, 2020 9:30:05 GMT
If people are making modern dupes I expect this practice to be shut down VERY quickly. Not to cast any aspersions on the seller (who appears genuine enough), just that the provenance of this footage is dubious. I don't think there's any ill intent from any party involved in this, I think someone for some reason decided to film his tv for a couple of minutes, moved house and forgot about it, then this person came across it and thought it was from the '60s. I agree this is most probably just an innocent sequence of events but there are more than just a couple of minutes of footage as there are more clips . Until we get some idea of the contents of the other Dr Who footage it's hard to say what this is about. From the images posted by the seller the picture does seem to wander, as if the person filming was changing camera position or maybe even holding the camera rather than using a rest or tripod. Some of the images show a deeply recessed frame on the monitor suggesting these were taken from a vintage TV set. How easy is it to play back VCR or DVD on an old set? That the footage shows the Doctor's first encounter with the Daleks from the moment they step through the door to the control room suggests foreknowledge of events. Curious.
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Post by adamjordan on Jul 7, 2020 9:14:25 GMT
The email also makes reference to 3 films which doubtless the BFI will be interested in as well. A new show for me, but v encouraging that little bits of our TV history can still come back 60 odd years later. drip, drip,drip. With the occasional SPLASH! I am so happy Talking Pictures exist.
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Post by adamjordan on Jun 10, 2020 8:43:37 GMT
Talking Pictures plans to show the previously-missing 19/4/1965 episode (series 7 ep.12) Music for Murder on Thursday 25th June @ 7:10 p.m., and on Saturday 27th @ 6:00 p.m. Thanks for the heads up . Looking forward to watching this. Never seen an episode. Maybe Talking Pictures could line up a season of repeats? I'd love to see that episode with Troughton AND Alfred Burke!
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Post by adamjordan on Jun 6, 2020 10:34:13 GMT
I found a Behind the News clip with Dr Who, but as I recall it was already known. Sorry, ABC's site is having an outage at the moment. Interesting. What did you (re)find?
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Post by adamjordan on May 3, 2020 10:24:03 GMT
Why not socially distance or self isolate with some classic DW? Last night I watched Spiders and Day 📺👍 I’m Watching one episode every evening. Just finished The Keeper of Traken and Tomb of the Cybermen. Starting ep 1 of Claws of Axos tonight!
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Post by adamjordan on Apr 9, 2020 11:03:57 GMT
Interesting. A complete episode, but Audio only. I doubt we will ever see any more recordings (Audio AND Video) of The Troubleshooters. Sad. Philip Morris did mention finding a missing episode of The Troubleshooters at a Starburst event (also a non-missing Callan) in, I think, 2016. Hopefully, one day we'll get to see it. On Saturday, during the FantomFilms Dr Who 'Missing Episodes' broadcast Phil Morris was interviewed about his episode hunting exploits. He mentions pulling back a carpet and finding a missing episode of 'The Sky at Night' and "several episodes of 'Mogul' ". Now, he had let on about finding one missing Troubleshooters. I can't recall if he said it was missing but Vaughan in the post above recalls it was. This was an early find so we're looking at 10 years ago. Have we been told what this episode was? Wikipedia mentions the following.... A previously missing episode from series two - "Birdstrike" - was returned to the BBC by a private collector in May 2010, with the assistance of classic TV organisation KaleidoscopeI don't know if this was the episode in question. Is it possible that Phil was on good terms with Kaleidoscope back in 2010? ( sadly, I don't think they have a good relationship currently) If not, then I'm not aware that we've been given any information about these found episodes which is a bit frustrating for fans of the programme. I had at first thought that the episodes referred to the first series o the Troubleshooters which was titled "Mogul" before the name change in series two onwards but then found this via wiki on a great fan website. The programme was a commercial success for BBC Television, exported around the world in sixty countries. Whilst further seasons of this programme were re-titled The Troubleshooters in the United Kingdom, the series retained the title Mogul for the purposes of overseas sales. There are many many episodes still missing so it would be interesting to know a bit more about these 'Mogul' finds.
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Post by adamjordan on Apr 9, 2020 10:22:55 GMT
.......... What is significant about episode three it is the on-screen introduction of Colonel Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart as played by Nicholas Courtney. (I say on-screen because Colonel Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart met The Doctor off-screen in episode two. Off-screen because Troughton was on holiday that week). We see the Colonel's boot in episode 2. I don't know who's foot is in the boot but not Nick Courtney.
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Post by adamjordan on Jul 20, 2019 17:05:20 GMT
Anyone know how this auction went? Rosebery's are withholding the hammer price for this lot.
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Post by adamjordan on Jun 17, 2019 19:37:13 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. Well hopefully someone will be able to pop down to South Norwood a few days before the auction and ask to inspect the lot in more detail and report back. Heck, I may do it myself. Is there any info yet on when this auction is taking place?
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Post by adamjordan on Feb 28, 2019 15:42:12 GMT
Considering the amount of times the Power tele-snaps have been reprinted and made available in one format or another over the past 33 years since they first appeared in Doctor Who: The Early Years, I'm actually a bit surprised that they made that much. It is similarly surprising how much money people will fork out for 16mm prints of existing episodes. Hopefully these telesnaps will decrease steeply in ‘value’ over the coming years. 😉
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Post by adamjordan on Feb 28, 2019 12:25:14 GMT
You may be interested to know that Chris Barry’s family have decided to auction off his collection of original cura telesnaps for all six episodes of Power of the Daleks Along with about 40 (apparently) enlarged prints of selected scenes. The auction is on Thursday at 10am at an auction house in Bristol. I suspect deep pockets will be required! Hammer price £1000 I hope the buyer was a fan rather than a dealer. It would be nice see this collection kept together, but at that price I’m sure someone who ‘ knows the price of everything but the value of nothing’ will be tempted to split these up. Regarding the Cura telesnaps, the definitive article on this is in “Nothing at the End of the Lane” issue Two.
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Post by adamjordan on Feb 27, 2019 11:21:10 GMT
Thanks so much for pointing this up.
Devo’s first two albums are brilliant. They’ll be playing this, one of the best covers ever, in a thousand years time.
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Post by adamjordan on Feb 26, 2019 15:10:21 GMT
You may be interested to know that Chris Barry’s family have decided to auction off his collection of original cura telesnaps for all six episodes of Power of the Daleks Along with about 40 (apparently) enlarged prints of selected scenes.
The auction is on Thursday at 10am at an auction house in Bristol.
I suspect deep pockets will be required!
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