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Crane
Jun 13, 2020 10:33:15 GMT
Post by Marie Griffiths on Jun 13, 2020 10:33:15 GMT
My friend deamed about the TV Series Crane 1963 to 1965 ITV last night. I had never heard of it. It starred Patrick Allen and Sam Kydd with unusually exterior shots on location in Morocco. TV Brain lists lots of episode missing and non intact. The comments on YouTube show 2 episode intact plus there is a short clip from one episode. Surely if they had gone to the trouble of expensive on location work then they would preserve it. It would contain rare footage of Morocco from that time.
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Crane
Jun 13, 2020 10:37:30 GMT
Post by Marie Griffiths on Jun 13, 2020 10:37:30 GMT
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Post by Peter Stirling on Jun 13, 2020 12:36:32 GMT
Apparently a 40ft truck arrived at Rediffusion HQ in July 1968 to clear the archive out, but what happened to it after that is lost in the mists of time. The BFI before hand was offered stuff and grudgingly took a sample of most series, they wanted only film copies as to be fair to them a videotape machine was well out of their budget at that time ( circa £50,000) and they would have to wait for handmedowns in the future.
Another lost location series is 'Riviera Police'...The commission for this apparently came about as a drunken producer and writer stumbled out of the pub into the rain.. The producer said something like "for god's sake write me something away from this British weather" LOL
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Post by richardwoods on Jun 13, 2020 19:38:34 GMT
Apparently a 40ft truck arrived at Rediffusion HQ in July 1968 to clear the archive out, but what happened to it after that is lost in the mists of time. The BFI before hand was offered stuff and grudgingly took a sample of most series, they wanted only film copies as to be fair to them a videotape machine was well out of their budget at that time ( circa £50,000) and they would have to wait for handmedowns in the future. Another lost location series is 'Riviera Police'...The commission for this apparently came about as a drunken producer and writer stumbled out of the pub into the rain.. The producer said something like "for god's sake write me something away from this British weather" LOL Wasn’t there a link in a previous post to an account from someone who did some pretty decent detective work about what happened to the archive?
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Crane
Jun 13, 2020 20:52:30 GMT
Post by Peter Stirling on Jun 13, 2020 20:52:30 GMT
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Crane
Jun 13, 2020 21:28:48 GMT
Post by Richard Marple on Jun 13, 2020 21:28:48 GMT
It's interesting that BET (Rediffusion's parent company) or any other distribution company didn't keep selling their shows abroad for a few more years, as it took a while for colour to come to many countries.
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Crane
Jun 14, 2020 22:50:36 GMT
Post by Peter Stirling on Jun 14, 2020 22:50:36 GMT
It's interesting that BET (Rediffusion's parent company) or any other distribution company didn't keep selling their shows abroad for a few more years, as it took a while for colour to come to many countries. Yes true, they had shows like 'The Devil in the Dark' in their final days, which was a kid's costume,film adventure series which looked good in B/W anyway. It looks like the US saved the colour stuff.
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Crane
Jun 15, 2020 3:32:04 GMT
Post by Pete Morris on Jun 15, 2020 3:32:04 GMT
Surely if they had gone to the trouble of expensive on location work then they would preserve it.
you'd think so, wouldn't you.
Sadly, many TV companies didn't consider their work worth preserving.
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Crane
Jun 16, 2020 0:42:02 GMT
Post by Jeff Leach on Jun 16, 2020 0:42:02 GMT
Another big budget series with lots of location filming was Brett starring Patrick Allen (BBC - 1971) All missing with barely a screengrab in existence. www.imdb.com/title/tt0162795/
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Crane
Jun 16, 2020 8:39:17 GMT
Post by Richard Marple on Jun 16, 2020 8:39:17 GMT
There were a few high-profile early colour shows by the BBC that were later wiped unless they were exported widely, or based on major historical events.
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