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Post by John Green on Oct 24, 2020 14:59:45 GMT
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Post by John Green on Oct 24, 2020 19:05:58 GMT
In one of those Signs of the Times, TVBrain has:
For details of future free events at Birmingham City University, search Eventbrite for details. Saturday 7th March 2020 BSB and other items; Saturday 6th June 2020 Music Event.
In the summer, when I walked past the local pub's ad for 'Jules O'Flannagan and his City Slickers play Neilson, April 5. Book now', I'd get one of those Web of Fear flashbacks.
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Post by Marie Griffiths on Oct 24, 2020 20:35:06 GMT
Actually this entire thread has gone way off-topic, so let's get back on track please. Thank you for not going OTT in response. I think it really is better to have this site as a place where we can talk about much-loved TV shows. And Blake's 7. Yes it has gone off topic. Another examaple of men taking over things in this patriachial society. ;-) Lights blue touch paper. I think another thread entitled Is wokeness lockibg archives for good would be a better one
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Post by Peter Stirling on Oct 24, 2020 21:14:08 GMT
Wasn’t a copy of the French Robinson Crusoe with the BBC English soundtrack found in France some time ago or am I confusing this with another series? Yes this (and the Space Patrol puppet action series) was how the DVD company Network started up. At that time (circa 1997) hardly anybody knew where anything was, they only knew that the BBC had thrown out their copies in 1982 after a long service of being shown at least once a year during the school holidays. The Network team tracked it down lying forgotten in a Paris archive (France had lost interest in it years before and never shown it as much as the UK). IIRC it had a French track but either they later discovered an English track version or De Lane Lea in London (who were thee dubbers for foreign language programmes in those days) had kept the English track. IMHO I don't think there was any 'political' reason for the BBC chucking it away, it was in b/w which dated it and the rights had probably expired so from a business point of view a company is not officially going to keep something it cannot do anything with. .
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Post by Richard Marple on Oct 24, 2020 21:17:13 GMT
I did wonder where the English language copies of The White Horses turned up, did someone record the soundtracks back in the day and this has been dubbed over other existing versions?
This was an imported series the BBC seemed to repeat lot before binning their copies of it.
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Post by John Green on Oct 24, 2020 22:17:28 GMT
You might think that, I couldn’t possibly comment 😂😂😂😂😂 Having lost my job due to covid I have personaly been affected in thus disasterous year. I appreciate people have lost close loved ones. With any disaster perhaps some good could come of it. It's in my nature, and come to think of it, in human nature, to make sardonic quips about adversity, but hopefully that doesn't make us unaware of how Covid is actually affecting people. I'm sorry to hear about you losing your job, it must be horrible. I haven't set eyes on my son Owen, since March. Since he's non-verbal and can't read, communication is difficult. I think there was a 'retard'-style insult upthread, and I have to say that I really don't like those. John Lennon had a favourite 'spastic' shtick which he'd do on stage. It doesn't endear him to me, but I wouldn't want to erase the record of what's there, or seek to paste over the bad bits.
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Post by Marie Griffiths on Oct 24, 2020 22:48:44 GMT
Ok I found Moonbase 3 on Youtube being too young to appreiciate it at the time. A vision of the future 2003.
The political incorrectness is hilarious for a vision of the future. Episode 1
Video conferencing. check. Smart watch. check. Speech to text. Check. Computerised HR records. Check Cash strapped European Space Programme. check. Moonbase. fail sadly. Asian European Astronaunt. fail sadly. AFAIK.
Now the casual sexism so bad it is funny.
Two double whiskys all round during the middle of the day. fail. 2nd in command "Im not having this moonbase run by the whims of a woman." fail Base commander "You are here for your female intuition". Fail The cash strapped space programme can afford to send a female secretary into space just to arrange appointments and open doors. They also have sent a female HR director into space. Actually she does prove usefull warning that the astronaunt wasnt pshologically fit to fly which she could have done from the ground. She is naturally ignored by the guys. She is later castigated and shiuted at for failing to stop the astronaunt flying by the durector, who in my opionion was unstable. fail fail fail
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Post by John Wall on Oct 24, 2020 23:03:35 GMT
I saw Moonbase 3 first time around. It was lost for years until it was found in the US.
Barry and Terrance later reckoned they should have gone for a space opera like Blake’s 7.
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Post by John Wall on Oct 24, 2020 23:12:58 GMT
Star Cops is another series with some interesting ideas that didn’t make it.
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Post by garygraham on Oct 25, 2020 0:27:10 GMT
Interesting things are happening. People are more willing to pay a small amount to view individual pieces of content or collections. I've been experimenting with that on a website and, as we know, Network has had its ABC streams. I wonder how they have done?
Providing video on a site and hosting it yourself soon gets expensive if it's open to all. Which is why people resort to putting video on YouTube. But by limiting viewers with a charge it's possibly to host it yourself and keep control of everything which can be a nicer experience all round.
With more people at home due to Covid, and more willingness to pay, it might mean more being made available from the Archives. However, addressing rights issues and restoration remain as costs.
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Post by timmunton on Oct 25, 2020 3:11:35 GMT
Re. Comments on the 1964 television Crusoe series. IIRC Lee Payant narrated the English version as the character Crusoe telling his adventures, but Crusoe was portrayed visually throughout by Austrian actor Robert Hoffmann.
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Post by Sue Butcher on Oct 25, 2020 5:39:37 GMT
Well, if the BBC goes bust, its archives should be nationalised rather than auctioned off or put on a bonfire. Considered as history, it doesn't matter if a lot of it's tasteless. (I've in come a little late here, I know.)
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Post by richardwoods on Oct 25, 2020 9:24:47 GMT
I did wonder where the English language copies of The White Horses turned up, did someone record the soundtracks back in the day and this has been dubbed over other existing versions? This was an imported series the BBC seemed to repeat lot before binning their copies of it. Yes, it was a private reel to reel audio recording of the English soundtrack that was found & re-synched. One episode was missing and was presented on the DVD with subtitles.
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Post by John Wall on Oct 25, 2020 9:53:40 GMT
Well, if the BBC goes bust, its archives should be nationalised rather than auctioned off or put on a bonfire. Considered as history, it doesn't matter if a lot of it's tasteless. (I've in come a little late here, I know.) I think it would go to the NFTVA.
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Post by John Green on Oct 25, 2020 10:49:00 GMT
I did wonder where the English language copies of The White Horses turned up, did someone record the soundtracks back in the day and this has been dubbed over other existing versions? This was an imported series the BBC seemed to repeat lot before binning their copies of it. Yes, it was a private reel to reel audio recording of the English soundtrack that was found & re-synched. One episode was missing and was presented on the DVD with subtitles. Richard,I've been wondering about this for years, Do you have a link?
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