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Post by Nigel Lamb on Apr 24, 2016 16:50:52 GMT
Many thanks for the link to the facebook page.
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Post by Nigel Lamb on May 10, 2016 19:37:15 GMT
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Post by John Green on May 10, 2016 20:13:29 GMT
Nature Red in Tooth and Claw.
(Or has that been done already?).
Anyway...23rd of May,which is soon,and £9.99,which is cheap.
Blurb says:
First broadcast in December 1954, Zoo Quest was one of the most popular television series of its time and launched the career of the young David Attenborough as a wildlife presenter. Zoo Quest completely changed how viewers saw the world – revealing wildlife and tribal communities that had never been filmed or even seen before. Broadcast ten years before colour television was seen in the UK, Zoo Quest was thought to have been filmed in black and white. Until now! Thanks to a recent remarkable discovery in the BBC’s film vaults, the best of David Attenborough’s early Zoo Quest adventures can now be seen as never before – in stunning HD colour – and with it the fascinating behind the scenes stories from David Attenborough and cameraman Charles Lagus of how this pioneering television series was made.
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Post by John Green on May 11, 2016 18:28:05 GMT
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Post by John Green on May 16, 2016 14:24:08 GMT
Eight days to go,and both the artwork and classification are To Be Confirmed.Mind you,it'll sell bucketloads!
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Post by John Green on May 18, 2016 22:24:41 GMT
For what it's worth,the DVD's being given as an hour and 40 minutes (and PG) here: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01F4FM76U/ref=dp_rt_cl_dp_0 The solitary review on Amazon says in part: I'd hoped the release may include the full series of colour episodes found but this release features the BBC 4 documentary, (we need to see all of it sometime though please BBC) which if you missed it, makes this release an essential part of an Attenborough completists collection or for TV historians. |
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Post by Barry Hodge on May 19, 2016 19:07:09 GMT
A wonderful programme. I may have missed something, but I assume the original sound recordings don't exist, so much of the footage would be left silent if an 'all-inclusive' DVD had been released. Judging by the BBC4 programme, they were using the soundtrack from the series - which suddenly jumped up in quality mid-sentence (though this may have been an iPlayer glitch).
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Post by Marie Griffiths on May 21, 2016 0:02:34 GMT
This was indeed a wonderful programme as someone too young to have seen Zoo Quest, I found the documentary an appropriate blend of old and new.
Showing all of the programmes would have been a dated drag. David Attenbourgh's insights into the adventure of the making of the series was gripping, boy's own adventure and put into context the bad zooalogical and health and safety standards of the time. The colour footage was clear, crisp and almost as a good as modern HD wildlife documentaries. I almost thought it was faked and filmed last week using his grandson as a stand in. The colours of the animals and the native people make all the difference on interpretation and the habitats and the lifestyles of those people are probably disappeared now. I also found the young Attenbourgh was rather dashing especially when going for a dip.
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Post by richardwoods on May 21, 2016 10:40:29 GMT
I'm lucky enough to remember the daytime repeats of Zoo Quest in the late 60's. Great stuff. Does anyone know, does the whole series exist in colour, i.e. did they use colour film for all the shots for the entire series? I must admit, when I first heard about it I immediately thought that someone has developed a cheap way to colourise black and white footage and wasn't saying anything.
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Post by Barry Hodge on May 21, 2016 17:52:57 GMT
I seem to remember they said 'some' of the series was found in its original colour, and again in the doc, they explained that low-light portions of the shoot were shot on black & white stock - every time they found the thing they were Questing for.
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Post by John Green on May 23, 2016 18:05:27 GMT
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Post by John Green on May 23, 2016 18:06:04 GMT
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Post by Dan S on May 25, 2016 1:06:36 GMT
Does anyone know, does the whole series exist in colour, i.e. did they use colour film for all the shots for the entire series? The reports said they found 6 hours of colour footage. I don't know whether that accounts for all the location footage (minus the shots they filmed in b&w due to low light), because it's quite possible that the stash they found doesn't contain all the colour film that was shot. And... WOAH! I just went on to Genome to see how long Zoo Quest episodes were (30 minutes) and I saw that they've added iplayer links onto the pages so you can watch all the old episodes of Zoo Quest, albeit in black and white of course. How long has this been going on? Now I'm gonna have a look to see what other things have iplayer links! |
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