Ace St.John
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Post by Ace St.John on Nov 5, 2018 11:03:26 GMT
In the late 1980's (or possibly early 90's) I dreamt that I went into a store and there was VHS video tapes of both Tomb of the Cybermen and Power of the Daleks in full colour and I was absolutely shocked and amazed at both the recovery and the fact they were now in colour. As if they'd really been shot in colour and only seen in black and white. Soon after this dream (or few years later) in real life Tomb of the Cybermen was recovered and released - something I'd never have expected. My dream may of been inspired by there being many colour publicity shots taken for these serials. *********** I also recall reading in the letters page of DWM that a guy had a dream that The Crusades was recovered and there was technicolour footage of Julian Glover in a forest and that the whole serial was colour. The letter in DWM I believe was printed between 86 and 89 I reckon.
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Post by Brad Wolfe on Nov 5, 2018 23:14:10 GMT
Separately, I dreamed The Highlanders was found in storage at a Maori community radio station in New Zealand and The Evil of the Daleks was recovered in Australia. Goes to show how much I obsess over missing '60s Who in my waking hours! If only I were Mystic Meg.
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Post by lousingh on Nov 8, 2018 14:51:01 GMT
Addendum: Honestly, if I had the wherewithal (i.e., money and time), I would poll every Doctor Who fan alive who saw the original versions of the missing episodes and try to reach a consensus on what happened between each telesnap. Then I would have people walk through them as if they were performing the episodes, and do what was done for "The Power of the Daleks" myself for everything left. That is how much trust I have in those dreams and memories when people are prompted with the recons. Not sure how accurate memories would be, especially as many of us would have been quite young, not to mention the passage of time. One of my older brothers still recalls watching the first ever episode ... and remembers clearly that The Doctor was a science teacher who built his TARDIS ... The important piece here is that we have audio and telesnaps to prompt everyone's memories. There won't be any question of just relying on the memory. For instance, you wouldn't have someone probably confusing the actual pilot with one of the Peter Cushing movies. Moreover this would be a consensus, so one person thinking s/he remembers something would not be part of the final product because everyone else will disagree. As an example, take one of the telesnap reconstructions and watch a small segment. For those who saw it, what do you recall happened between them? I can imagine that they could come up with a broad consensus for what happens 30 seconds at a time from telesnap to telesnap. This is something that I wish I could have done 35 years ago when I came up with the idea. There would have been so many more people who remembered the stories and their memories would be much fresher.
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Post by lousingh on Nov 8, 2018 15:01:28 GMT
Addendum: Honestly, if I had the wherewithal (i.e., money and time), I would poll every Doctor Who fan alive who saw the original versions of the missing episodes and try to reach a consensus on what happened between each telesnap. Then I would have people walk through them as if they were performing the episodes, and do what was done for "The Power of the Daleks" myself for everything left. That is how much trust I have in those dreams and memories when people are prompted with the recons. I've wondered (dreamt) that you might be able to tap directly into people's memories via some sort of neurological invention and then reconstruct the episodes that way. Richard P.S. Which I would like to say is a genuine attempt at recovering missing episodes, in case I need to justify the post :-) The problem you would have is that you would need to know how the brain itself is reacting to different stimuli related to a telesnap reconstructions. If you think we can do it from the surface of the brain with current technology, well, here is what a neurologist I know said about this: Trying to recover your memory from electrodes on the scalp is like trying to figure out what video is on a computer screen when the computer is in a wading pool and we are reading the output from sensors on the sides. Not that I wouldn't want to try it, mind you.
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Post by Jim Exley on Nov 9, 2018 20:53:16 GMT
I have a crate of 8mm and 16mm films that I've either shot or otherwise amassed over the years and dreamed I'd come into posession of a further bundle. Among these were Castle editions of Fury from the Deep and The Savages, 200 ft versions with box art in the style of their Universal horror series. Bizarre even by my standards.
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Post by Qasim Yusuf on Nov 10, 2018 7:47:08 GMT
I have a crate of 8mm and 16mm films that I've either shot or otherwise amassed over the years and dreamed I'd come into posession of a further bundle. Among these were Castle editions of Fury from the Deep and The Savages, 200 ft versions with box art in the style of their Universal horror series. Bizarre even by my standards. If Fury or Savages got recovered, I'd love for the DVDs to come in a slipcase with Universal Horror style box art!
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