Post by Andrew Doherty on Mar 4, 2006 15:58:48 GMT
Chances are that somewhere in the U.S.A there may reside the colour video copies of the Hippodrome shows.
I am certain the holding company 'Archbuild' would find them to be a valuable resource for possible DVD releases, especially if they were the colour versions.
A black and white telerecording with Woody Allen as guest host and featuring Libby Morris did turn up in 1994 and was shown at that year's Missing, Believed Wiped event.
I wrote the following on another thread about the history of the Wembley Park Studios.
"The television studios at Wembley Park were the most modern in Europe, apparently, in March 1958 and had the first Ampex Video tape recorders.
Associated Rediffusion, so I was told, had taken over some existing film studios and had adapted, modernized and extended the (then) existing buildings, which had been used by Twentieth Century Fox. The earlier history of the Wembley Park film studios goes back to the late 1920s and was run by a company calling themselves British Talking Pictures, and here is something interesting. Walt Disney wanted to use the studios to produce cartoons with sound. But, guess what, British Talking Pictures turned him down and so Mr Disney returned to the U.S.A.
You can't help wondering what would have happened if he had stayed. Could Wembley Park have been the Walt Disney World HQ? He certainly seemed to be very interested in what was going on in the U.K. in the 1930s (notably, showing the first cartoons on BBC television)."
It is good to know that the 1958 Associated Rediffusion studio buildings are still being used.
Yours,
ANDy
I am certain the holding company 'Archbuild' would find them to be a valuable resource for possible DVD releases, especially if they were the colour versions.
A black and white telerecording with Woody Allen as guest host and featuring Libby Morris did turn up in 1994 and was shown at that year's Missing, Believed Wiped event.
I wrote the following on another thread about the history of the Wembley Park Studios.
"The television studios at Wembley Park were the most modern in Europe, apparently, in March 1958 and had the first Ampex Video tape recorders.
Associated Rediffusion, so I was told, had taken over some existing film studios and had adapted, modernized and extended the (then) existing buildings, which had been used by Twentieth Century Fox. The earlier history of the Wembley Park film studios goes back to the late 1920s and was run by a company calling themselves British Talking Pictures, and here is something interesting. Walt Disney wanted to use the studios to produce cartoons with sound. But, guess what, British Talking Pictures turned him down and so Mr Disney returned to the U.S.A.
You can't help wondering what would have happened if he had stayed. Could Wembley Park have been the Walt Disney World HQ? He certainly seemed to be very interested in what was going on in the U.K. in the 1930s (notably, showing the first cartoons on BBC television)."
It is good to know that the 1958 Associated Rediffusion studio buildings are still being used.
Yours,
ANDy
