Anyone heard of Arthur Dungate ?

[Liam Lynch]

I found a listing on 405 alive about a Mr. Arthur Dungate who had worked at Alexandra Palace and Lime Grove during the 50's and 60's. I was just currious if anyone has contacted him about missing 16mm material (Francis Watson borrowed some material from Lime Grove, is it possible this guy could of too ?)I am not accusing him of borrowing films, I was just currious to know if anyone had contacted him on the subject. I was just curruoius. If anyone has any info on this subject please post it.

Liam

[Stuart Douglas]

Liam said:

I found a listing on 405 alive about a Mr. Arthur Dungate who had worked at Alexandra Palace and Lime Grove during the 50's and 60's. I was just currious if anyone has contacted him about missing 16mm material (Francis Watson borrowed some material from Lime Grove, is it possible this guy could of too ?)I am not accusing him of borrowing films, I was just currious to know if anyone had contacted him on the subject. I was just curruoius. If anyone has any info on this subject please post it.

Liam

Hi Liam,

Arthur Dungate has actually posted on this forum!

[from the Quatermass Experiment listings page]

From the Forum-Wed May 30 2001

"In the section about The Quatermass Experiment (1953), the observation is correct. If my memory serves me right, I happened to be standing next to Dicky Meakin, the S.Tel.E of Telecine at the time, (this was in Telecine at Lime Grove) when we were previewing the telefilm of either the first or second episode, and he rejected it as being of too poor quality. "I've got standards" he said at the time. "

-Arthur Dungate

From a Personal e.mail from Arthur 28/04/2003

"Recently I had a rethink. Dicky Meakin was previewing one of the episodes on the EMI flying spot telecine scanner at Lime Grove, and it was a 16mm reduction print. Now we didn't move from AP to Lime Grove until sometime in 1954 - and so, as Quatermass was a 1953 prog, the dates don't match. Thus what I said a few years ago can not be accurate. This means the reason Eps 3-6 were not telefilmed (that's the term we used at the time) is still a mystery.

I apologise for the misleading information, but it *is* 50 years ago!"

Stuart

[Steve Roberts]

Liam said:

I was just currious if anyone has contacted him about missing 16mm material (Francis Watson borrowed some material from Lime Grove, is it possible this guy could of too ?)

If you're talking about Francis Watson taking the two Doctor Who episodes, he took them from the BBC's Television Film Studios at Ealing, not from Lime Grove.

Steve