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Post by Tom Morris on Jan 9, 2007 10:26:42 GMT
The ITV series starts next Tuesday 16th January at 10pm for four weeks.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2007 11:12:35 GMT
Have ITV broken their silence yet and allowed us to know exactly what they´ve retrieved?
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Post by Ant Harvison - WIPED NEWS on Jan 10, 2007 13:11:43 GMT
This might be of interest - Sunday Times, January 7
Found: early stutterings of Parky and Rolf
Richard Brooks, Arts Editor
NOW he is known as the suave king of the chat show, but footage unseen since it was first broadcast 40 years ago reveals Michael Parkinson was once a far more awkward young reporter.
In one of the clips he is shown as a reluctant and frightened war correspondent.
The sequence, from the BBC’s 24 Hours current affairs programme, is among a number thought to have been destroyed but now rediscovered by the British Film Institute.
It shows Parkinson against the backdrop of the 1967 six-day war in the Middle East. “I’ll tell you, I was the most terrible war correspondent,” said Parkinson, now 71, on being shown the footage again.
“I was terrified. I was really looked after by my cameraman, who protected me. I quickly realised that I would be much better off working in the studio. It was better paid and much warmer.”
Another Parkinson clip, which will be shown in Raiders of the Lost Archive on ITV on January 16, shows him interviewing Laurence Olivier. It is taken from Cinema, a 1960s series.
“It was one of the very first celebrity interviews I did,” said Parkinson, who has now been conducting celebrity chats for some 30 years. “I was terrified of Olivier.”
The actor gives clipped responses to Parkinson’s nervous inquiries. The only interesting reply comes when Parkinson asks Olivier if he likes acting in films. “Not very much,” Olivier replies tartly.
Other revealing clips show the earliest screen appearances of a young Rolf Harris. The artist and broadcaster arrived from Australia in 1952 when he was 22 and landed a small role in the 1955 film You Lucky People.
“I’d been trying to find a copy of this film for years as I’d never seen it since then,” said Harris. “I was such a nonentity in those days, even on screen. So insecure too. I never knew what on earth I was doing there. I did a lot of little films.”
By the mid-1960s Harris had made his name as an artist and a musician.
Another clip, newly found from 1967, shows Harris talking to Joan Bakewell on BBC2’s Late Night Line Up while playing his didgeridoo.
There is also a clip from 1969 of Harris in a stylophone duet with Liberace. “I must admit I have no memory of doing this,” confessed Harris.
There is also footage of John Humphrys, the Today presenter, as a 25 year old interviewing Morecambe and Wise in 1968; Sir Cliff Richard in his screen acting role in the television drama A Matter of Diamonds in the same year; an episode of The Goodies, the 1970s comedy show, dubbed into German; and the first known footage of Bruce Forsyth filmed at a Devon resort.
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It seems interesting in an ITV celebrity-obsessed sort of way but I wonder exactly how much footage has been really recovered and not just dug out of dusty archives?
ITV called the Cook and Moore Goodbye Again series 'recovered' though the truth was that it had just lain on the shelves since its original broadcast, rather than having been wiped and retrieved from a collector or institution.
Maybe Chris Perry or someone else involved in the actual initiative could inform us, once the respective programmes have aired?
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Post by Tom Morris on Jan 10, 2007 13:19:31 GMT
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Post by hartley967 on Jan 10, 2007 13:46:43 GMT
Wow! yes please!
Rolf Harris playing Stylophone with Liberace sounds like a classic ?
is this from the 1969 ATV Liberace series?
presumably only survives in B/W TR?
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Post by Robert Manners on Jan 10, 2007 15:47:29 GMT
We love B/W TR's as they have allowed to see so much more than we would have if only VT had ruled the world.
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Post by hartley967 on Jan 11, 2007 0:17:29 GMT
We love B/W TR's as they have allowed to see so much more than we would have if only VT had ruled the world. Your right of course! the unsung hero of archive TV is the unloved TR and deserves a long over due salute, for all the gems it has enabled us to see in the easy come, easy go world of magnetic tape and for all the mistreatment it has taken amongst grubby fingers and wrecked projectors. a colour TR of liberace show though, would be nicer than no colour at all. |
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Post by Simon Winters on Jan 17, 2007 12:25:54 GMT
What a load of dross this programme was. The London Palladium 'find' was from the recording of ATV London from 22/3/64, which many collectors of archive tv have had on their dvd shelves for many years. Much of the material was from tacky ITV nineties shows.
The 1960s Parkinson film showing him with a Granada ident on his back was billed as recently found - and as something Parky hasn't seen since he first filmed it. But the very same film was shown by Channel 4 in the eighties as part of Granadaland, and at the time was introduced by.......Michael Parkinson.
But does it matter? The main ITV audience were probably not watching, having gone to the kitchen to warm up a pizza while waiting for the next reality show to begin.
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Post by hartley967 on Jan 17, 2007 14:30:40 GMT
do these programmes have proper researchers anymore? or just a load of production 'runners' who hang around these websites picking up bits of info?
Bruce Forsyth mentioned being high pitched, probably because these bunch of del boys were running the film at the wrong speed?
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Post by andylane on Jan 17, 2007 14:49:32 GMT
Truly awful programme,would have made more sense for CH4 to show it,get rid of the "Comedy" presenter,and concentrate on recovered programmes.Why show a clip from "Surgical spirit"?Thought it was "Lost" programmes,not "Before they were famous"?
Dreadful.
RIP ITV
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Post by Hugo Danby on Jan 17, 2007 17:07:52 GMT
do these programmes have proper researchers anymore? or just a load of production 'runners' who hang around these websites picking up bits of info? No and yes more than likely  |
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Post by Robert Manners on Jan 17, 2007 17:27:12 GMT
Truly awful programme,would have made more sense for CH4 to show it,get rid of the "Comedy" presenter,and concentrate on recovered programmes.Why show a clip from "Surgical spirit"?Thought it was "Lost" programmes,not "Before they were famous"? Dreadful. RIP ITV Yes I agree, the finds were so poor they had to pad 30 minutes of a program up with 20 minutes of stuff like 'Before they were famous' Sad I guess the less informed view would have been tricked and fooled by the way it was presented as 'only just found' !!!!!!!!!!!!!  |
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Post by LanceM on Jan 17, 2007 23:38:48 GMT
Hello Again All,
I have yet to see this program, though I do want to badly. I understand that the ITV guys approached the viewers for vintage material ? That is indeed good news, even if this series is not well liked they did seem to get the message across to the public. They renewed interest hopefully in these old TV shows. I look forward to seeing what is recovered this year, fingers crossed.
Lance.
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Post by Peter Chadwick on Jan 18, 2007 11:48:15 GMT
So sadly typical of ITV's standards these days. A few facts would have been nice. There's no substitute for decent research. This was cack. Nothing more, nothing less; compare it with BBC4's 'Missing Believed Wiped'. Chalk and cheese.
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Post by DaveBiddle on Jan 18, 2007 12:19:57 GMT
A real missed oppertunity What more could you expect from itv these days nothing on this that has'nt been seen before unfortunatly they do have ratings to consider i suppose,hence the before they were famous line in the show
but saying that it dos'nt do any harm to the cause and may even turn up a few things out there,just hope we get to see some of them.
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