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Post by Simon Exton on Jul 21, 2014 17:29:02 GMT
The world science fiction convention is being held in London next month and will be showing goodies like Nigel Kneale's "The Crunch" and the 1954 version of "1984". There's also going to be a special Missing Believed Wiped talk- is it too much to hope that there may also be an announcement of some recovered TV-SF?
In related news, the BBC production of "R.U.R." has been nominated for a Retro Hugo Award.
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Post by John Green on Jul 21, 2014 17:37:30 GMT
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Post by Marty Schultz on Jul 22, 2014 2:42:17 GMT
The RT are doing a Doctor Who talk. That would be interesting.. Isn't there mention of Doomwatch in the BFI season? A decent release of the existing episodes (or newly recovered -fingers crossed) would be very welcome.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 13:27:12 GMT
Interesting event. Hopefully someone who attends can report back if there's anything exciting to impart?
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Post by Vaughan Stanger on Jul 22, 2014 14:11:42 GMT
Interesting event. Hopefully someone who attends can report back if there's anything exciting to impart? I'm attending Loncon3, but I haven't seen a schedule yet. I hope to see the MBW stuff. If I do, I'll report back. |
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Post by Simon Exton on Jul 26, 2014 9:51:26 GMT
There's a Restoration Team panel too.
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Post by Simon Exton on Aug 18, 2014 20:12:17 GMT
Sadly, both panels filled up pretty quickly so I didn't manage to get to see either. Disappointing, but these things happen.
The screening programme was a massive disappointment. Most of the shows come out on DVD within a couple of months (Out of the Unknown, The Changes, Red Shift, 1984). Of the two that had any degree of rarity beyond that, one was cancelled and one was only half-shown. It absolutely paled compared to the available shows at the 87 WorldCon.
Fortunately, the rest of the Con was absolutely amazing.
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Post by Vaughan Stanger on Aug 19, 2014 10:13:37 GMT
(Copied from my post in the other similarly titled thread...)
Not a great deal to report, if I'm honest. I don't mean that either the RT or MBW sessions were disappointing--not in the least--but those hoping for revelations abour new finds would have come away disappointed.
Perhaps the most interesting titbit was that chromadot recovery has been applied to a clip from an otherwise missing OOTU (Liar!, I believe) and will be included on the DVD box-set.
The RT presentation showed a lot of before-and-after OOTU clips. All very impressive. The RT has clearly been hard at work, but admitted that for certain episodes (Lambda One, in particular) it's a case of "pragmatic" restoration, i.e. limited by budget and time, rather than the bells and whistles approach that is usually possible with Doctor Who.
MBW will be held on 7 December, with a Comedy session followed by a recreation of the BBC's "Our World" (from 1967, with The Beatles singing All You Need is Love). No sci-fi is planned, though that could change if something major lands on their doorstep... (I'd guess that would have to happen quite soon.)
Sadly the showing of Nigel Kneales's The Big Crunch was cancelled, due to late-breaking non-availability of a video transfer of the 16mm film (not the organiser's fault). They replaced it with the excellent Play for Today version of Alan Garner's Red Shift (unrestored, but very watchable), which is out in restored form on DVD soon. Also a little disappointing was the much shorter than advertised extract from The Other Man. What I did see of this 1964 alternate history WW2-set play was intriguing, but I felt frustrated by it overall.
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