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Post by John Green on Sept 26, 2018 14:39:44 GMT
Apparently,there's to be a BFI release?
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Post by RWels on Sept 26, 2018 15:05:40 GMT
Apparently,there's to be a BFI release? Oh I hope they think of the things that I thought of! |
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Post by John Green on Sept 26, 2018 17:51:12 GMT
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Post by John Green on May 10, 2019 14:53:54 GMT
Do not adjust your set:
Includes all 14 fully surviving episodes, from both the Rediffusion and Thames series, five of which have never been previously released on DVD
New digital transfers of rare animations by Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) from his own film elements
Newly recorded interview with Michael Palin (2019)
Newly recorded interview with uninvited guest star Tim Brooke-Taylor (2019)
Newly recorded interview with series creator and producer Humphrey Barclay (2019)
Bonzos on the Box: Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band members reflect upon the history of the group and their appearances on television, in a special documentary made up of new interviews with key 1960s originators and personnel Neil Innes, Rodney Slater, Roger Ruskin-Spear and ‘Legs’ Larry Smith (2019)
**FIRST PRESSING ONLY** fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the series by the BFI’s Vic Pratt and full series credits
Other extras TBC
At Last the 1948 show:
Includes all the complete surviving episodes from series one and two, plus two reconstructed episodes, for the very first time
Newly recorded interviews with Humphrey Barclay and Tim Brooke-Taylor (2019)
Archive interviews with John Cleese, Marty Feldman, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Aimi MacDonald
**FIRST PRESSING ONLY** fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the show by series expert Steve Bryant, not quite 400 words by Tim Brooke-Taylor, and full credits
Thanks to Richard I at Roobarb for passing this on.
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Post by John Green on May 11, 2019 0:32:28 GMT
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Post by tom rogers on May 11, 2019 2:01:54 GMT
Thanks for that. I pre-ordered mine straight from BFI. I did try the links provided but Amazon UK will not ship these titles to the US and they are not listed on the US site. |
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Post by RWels on Jun 27, 2019 20:17:18 GMT
I have a vague recollection that there were several people who audiorecorded "the 1948 show". Graham Webb for example. But there was another one, mentioned some years back. Anyone remember the details...?
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Post by martinogorman on Sept 9, 2019 15:47:03 GMT
Series 1 Show 3 and Series 2 Show 4 were shown at BFI Southbank yesterday before a nice chat with Tim Brooke-Taylor and Aimi MacDonald - which were the two episodes that were found in 2015, I believe.
On the down side, they were unrestored - you could tell straight away from the Rediffusion logo - which I suspect means the new BFI release hasn’t had any work done on it. I wasn’t expecting any as this is a "niche" title, but hopefully someone can confirm this release looks better than the one issued in 2017 (which was pretty horrible)?
On the plus side, I’ve finally seen the original version of the Bookshop sketch!
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Post by RWels on Sept 9, 2019 22:39:03 GMT
Series 1 Show 3 and Series 2 Show 4 were shown at BFI Southbank yesterday before a nice chat with Tim Brooke-Taylor and Aimi MacDonald - which were the two episodes that were found in 2015, I believe. On the down side, they were unrestored - you could tell straight away from the Rediffusion logo - which I suspect means the new BFI release hasn’t had any work done on it. I wasn’t expecting any as this is a "niche" title, but hopefully someone can confirm this release looks better than the one issued in 2017 (which was pretty horrible)? On the plus side, I’ve finally seen the original version of the Bookshop sketch! Also, I am going to subtract points for not recreating the end credits where they were missing. They had the text, I told them the name of the font, it's not rocket science to re-make subtitles exactly as they were. Now whenever there's a gap in the material, it's just a script page and inferior audio now. Another option to reuse a bit of footage also went unused. Of course, before this we had nothing at all except a piss poor incomplete DVD. I'm not denying that. |
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Post by tom rogers on Sept 17, 2019 23:25:44 GMT
My order arrived in the post today. Didn't expect them to arrive until next month, so that is definitely a plus. I am going to dive in starting ths weekend. Many, many thanks again to all involved!
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Post by Ben Walker on Sept 18, 2019 9:57:03 GMT
So bizarre to see the bits with the mosquitos on the porch that the Goodies reused in the South Africa episode.
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Post by RWels on Sept 18, 2019 12:08:46 GMT
So bizarre to see the bits with the mosquitos on the porch that the Goodies reused in the South Africa episode. I once counted and there are 48 49 examples of reused material. Most obviously The 4 Yorkshiremen and a couple of others on Monty Python record albums and German episodes. But The Two Ronnies quietly recycled a lot of them as well. |
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