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Post by John Wall on Sept 9, 2023 16:09:10 GMT
Do you know where they were sent? British embassies and High Commissions all over the world. So, not places without TV? And were they primarily for embassy, etc personnel or to show the “best of British” to the locals? |
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Post by Robbie Moubert on Sept 9, 2023 16:26:10 GMT
So, not places without TV? I'm sure by my time everywhere had TV. I don't know how long the practice had been going on. As far as I remember, and we're talking 40 years ago of course, there was no bicycling chain. The prints would come back to us each time. Both. |
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Post by John Wall on Sept 9, 2023 16:29:23 GMT
So, not places without TV? I'm sure by my time everywhere had TV. I don't know how long the practice had been going on. As far as I remember, and we're talking 40 years ago of course, there was no bicycling chain. The prints would come back to us each time. Both. Can you expand on your knowledge of the system please? Were prints sent out regularly, weekly, monthly, etc, do you know how the material was chosen, etc, etc? |
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Post by Robbie Moubert on Sept 9, 2023 16:42:50 GMT
Can you expand on your knowledge of the system please? Were prints sent out regularly, weekly, monthly, etc, do you know how the material was chosen, etc, etc? There's not much more I can add unfortunately. There was an office upstairs that dealt with acquiring the prints and sending them out. I believe the embassies were sent a list and would request the title(s) they wanted. I know we had several copies of most of them. Occasionally a print would come back having suffered some damage. We had a machine for repairing damaged sprocket holes if they weren't too bad, but sometimes we'd have to junk them. As I said, the films were chosen for being British or having a strong British element. Edited to add: I worked for Film and TV Technical Services. After a few years I'd moved to the main telecine section (we were still known as "Telecine" even after the last telecine machine had gone!). My old room with the Steenbecks we used was shut down. If they were still acquiring films and sending them out then they no longer went through Technical Services.  Escape to Victory! That was another film we had!  |
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Post by John Wall on Sept 9, 2023 16:47:22 GMT
Can you expand on your knowledge of the system please? Were prints sent out regularly, weekly, monthly, etc, do you know how the material was chosen, etc, etc? There's not much more I can add unfortunately. There was an office upstairs that dealt with acquiring the prints and sending them out. I believe the embassies were sent a list and would request the title(s) they wanted. I know we had several copies of most of them. Occasionally a print would come back having suffered some damage. We had a machine for repairing damaged sprocket holes if they weren't too bad, but sometimes we'd have to junk them. As I said, the films were chosen for being British or having a strong British element. The cynic in me suspects that nowadays those criteria would be reversed 👎 |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2023 14:01:19 GMT
Should we consider digging up the Sydney and Wellington landfills that were used in the 1970s to find missing Doctor Who episodes?
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Post by Richard Bignell on Sept 10, 2023 14:11:31 GMT
Should we consider digging up the Sydney and Wellington landfills that were used in the 1970s to find missing Doctor Who episodes? No. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2023 14:31:58 GMT
Should we consider digging up the Sydney and Wellington landfills that were used in the 1970s to find missing Doctor Who episodes? No. Why? |
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Post by John Wall on Sept 10, 2023 14:37:55 GMT
Because, on a scale of one to ten, the chances of anything surviving are somewhat less than zero. |
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Post by barneyhall on Sept 10, 2023 14:58:13 GMT
You've got to think about what a landfill is and the way episodes were disposed of. I suspect your imagining a digger moving some earth and their being a nice neat pile of of cans like a time capsual. Any junked eps would of been unraveled and thrown out crushed scrunched. Even if they were in cans , which they wouldn't be, they'd still be rushed crumpled and bulldozed and most certainly wouldn't be water tight. They add a lot of water to land fill to make it moist and encourage break down but to also assist in settling. In short even if they were locateable they'd be just a pile of mush that once upon a time may of been film......we've degrad in a sealed room it would never survive a landfill environment. I know Philip Morris talked about some cans being buried in a desert somewhere and going looking but if that story is true its not like landfill it was more of a go and dump these old things that are taking up space somewhere......and even then I find it a bit unbelievable |
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Post by Nicholas Fitzpatrick on Sept 10, 2023 18:21:18 GMT
Cans would still be there, if they are suffering from too many cans. Which we've seen before at the end of a bicyling chain.
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Post by anthonybartley on Sept 10, 2023 20:44:52 GMT
I'm well aware that landfill sites do keep some sort of logs, but I'm not so sure they have a little 'notes' section.
Why would they even have company names listed? Are we expecting some sort of dusty file with:
"BBC, 23 Tons /78 crates (grey) 23/09/74, Notes: In case anyone comes looking, the Dr Who episodes are 57 meters down cell R-4592, somewhere to the left of the Morecambe & Wise cans and just above the 16 reels of The Royal Variety Show 1962,63 and 64, MOTD semi-final (away) 71', and Top of the Pops (various) , Jim."
You know we'd need that kind of detail just to find the tiniest fragment of what's been buried, right?
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Post by markperry on Sept 10, 2023 23:00:06 GMT
but wouldn't most landfills from yonks ago have been redeveloped on after their lifespan, gee I can imagine some film hunters with diggers and tools coming up to the householders with "we believe you may have lost films buried under your house"
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Post by Nicholas Fitzpatrick on Sept 10, 2023 23:00:10 GMT
I'm well aware that landfill sites do keep some sort of logs, but I'm not so sure they have a little 'notes' section. I'd doubt there'd even be logs. It's hard enough to identify where many old landfills even were, decades later. |
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Post by John Wall on Sept 11, 2023 8:00:26 GMT
I’ve seen sites of landfills that are indistinguishable from the surrounding area. There have, of course, been instances of problems with houses built on landfills but most recent ones are fine.
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