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Post by RWels on Oct 29, 2014 20:26:41 GMT
Yours. Perhaps it's "avast!"? Meanwhile, @staff, I do occasionally find a weird new browser window opening while on this forum. Is that supposed to happen? |
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Post by Alex Taylor on Oct 29, 2014 20:43:48 GMT
Hmm. I am running avast, but it isn't reporting anything for that site. I also would not expect it to block an entire site - particularly since I *am* blocking adverts anyway - and the Firefox error being reported is that the connection was reset by the remote server, not me.
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Post by ianh on Oct 29, 2014 23:01:10 GMT
Hmm. I am running avast, but it isn't reporting anything for that site. I also would not expect it to block an entire site - particularly since I *am* blocking adverts anyway - and the Firefox error being reported is that the connection was reset by the remote server, not me. I'm getting it blocked here too... 'Threat has been detected.' I use Avast and also block ads. I've had this from a couple of other sites that I visit very often and for years. I assumed that it's because someone has reported the site (or something contained on it) in error, as I've always found they're ok again after a short time. |
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Post by Alex Taylor on Oct 29, 2014 23:21:26 GMT
I'm definitely not seeing anything like that - Firefox reports a 'connection was reset' error; IE just reports that it is unable to load the site, no reason given. Avast's own logs show no evidence that it's done anything at all - in fact, having just checked, I don't have its web-filter enabled anyway.
Very strange...
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Post by John Green on Oct 29, 2014 23:36:41 GMT
Virus! Virus!
I see that the BFI definitely refer to the two episodes being "a significant discovery earlier this year".
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Post by RWels on Oct 30, 2014 15:49:12 GMT
An interesting detail on the BFI page for the December event: It says they are "complete save for a few minutes in each case". So they are not pristine copies. Well, at some point we will no doubt hear the story of how they came to be in Frost's attic.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2014 20:36:07 GMT
Yes, it was initially reported as two complete episodes. I wonder what (and how much) of each is missing?
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Post by RWels on Oct 31, 2014 8:21:46 GMT
Yes, it was initially reported as two complete episodes. I wonder what (and how much) of each is missing? That's what I'd like to know too! Seems they are not pristine copies. Perhaps they came back from somewhere, it was exported to Ireland, Hong Kong, and Australia after all. Clever editing + off-air audio can make up for missing bits of course. There are several cases of that in Doctor Who so I hope they will eventually do that to S2E6 too. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2014 8:47:09 GMT
As they were in the Frost collection, I'd guess they aren't recoveries from foreign sales but copies which have always resided with him (although how bits went missing is another question - possibly he snipped segments out for some kind of specific purpose a long time ago?). I expect we shall find out eventually!
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Post by RWels on Oct 31, 2014 9:23:20 GMT
As they were in the Frost collection, I'd guess they aren't recoveries from foreign sales but copies which have always resided with him (although how bits went missing is another question - possibly he snipped segments out for some kind of specific purpose a long time ago?). I expect we shall find out eventually! Oh, I meant that prints that had been used and damaged may have come back to him. In any case, he didn't just take the master copy. If that is the case, then the missing clips might be exactly the ones recovered in Australia and some at the BBC. (I once discovered a case like that with an episode of Animal, vegetable, mineral?.) And that would apply only to S1E1 then. If only they'd listen to me!  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2014 11:23:53 GMT
That's a good point! You should maybe speak to Dick Fiddy about this. It's always worth the effort if there's a remote chance of something being retrieved in this way.
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Post by RWels on Nov 6, 2014 16:13:23 GMT
More news. Despite my earlier guess, it now appears that these copies actually ARE home made films after all. There was some sort of equipment to do this and it isn't even the first case of episodes surfacing that way. So it IS an amateur telerecording.
And the last song of S2E7, "Rhubarb tart", is missing.
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