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Post by Brian Fretwell on Aug 31, 2003 18:44:48 GMT
Just to say that I saw the 10 minute extract shown in the NFT Sci-Fi oddities and rarities last night, together with the A for Andromeda last few minutes and waht was found of "The Little Black Bag" (almost like an extra Missing Believed Wiped for me as I hadn't seen these before.
The Scott on extract was projected from film unlike the othe items and looked really good, the film recording apparatus obviously hadn't had the colour subcarier filter switched on and (not wishing to start the "can we recover the colour debate) though it great seeing it as I would have on the 625 line B&W set I had at the time.
It was the Star Trek parody sketch by the way, and I hope more will be shown of this series at the NFT perhaps a whole episode not another extract.
Brian
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Post by Andy Henderson on Aug 31, 2003 20:56:34 GMT
Did you notice if there were many people at this screening? It was virtually empty when I was there two weeks ago. So much for interest in old propgrammes!!
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Post by Topov on Sept 1, 2003 10:58:32 GMT
I was also there on Saturday - it was virtually deserted then, too. Having seen most of the clips, I'm not really surprised - the Scott On clip was really quite horrendous, the Two Ronnies sketch elicited only the briefest of smiles, the Fanderson piece on Time of Your Life was just cringeworthy and the article on the Thunderbirds mime act almost entirely disguised how funny the actual production was.. OOTU was very nice to see however, although it would have benefited from some explanation of the missing scenes, particularly the missing final sequence.. And as usual, there was some irritating guy in the audience who laughed far more loudly than was really necessary!  |
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Post by Andy Henderson on Sept 1, 2003 13:26:51 GMT
"And as usual, there was some irritating guy in the audience who laughed far more loudly than was really necessary!"
Oh no! Not 'the voice' again! He turns up at almost all these events. A pal of mine told me that he goes to vintage horror screenings and typically when someone's head is decapitated or some other graphic depection, he bursts into noisy laughter.
He also turns up at MBW.......
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Post by Topov on Sept 1, 2003 15:30:57 GMT
He also turns up at MBW....... Yes! He was at the last MBW! I nearly slapped him there as well!  |
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Post by Nick Gilbert on Sept 1, 2003 18:32:36 GMT
OOTU was very nice to see however, although it would have benefited from some explanation of the missing scenes, particularly the missing final sequence.. The event really needed a compere. Also the list of items missed out the A For Andromeda footage and the notes were cribbed from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Television (or whatever it's called). All-in-all a disappointing evening. The OOTU episode had a huge plot hole (unless it was in the missing bits). The journalist tells the doctor with the Black Bag that she has a female GP (and doesn't name her) but towards the end of the ep, he manages to find the GP who is male and very "Harley Street" and, luckily a bigwig, on the Medical Council. Still it was all very entertaining. |
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Post by Andy Henderson on Sept 1, 2003 23:12:15 GMT
"All-in-all a disappointing evening"
!?!?! you did get the last 15 mins of 'A for Andromeda' plus 30 mins of a previously lost play - isn't that enough!!! Only a decade ago, seeing both would have been virtually impossible.
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Post by A Hutchings on Sept 2, 2003 16:34:05 GMT
I don't want to belittle the work of the late Mr Scott by turning this thread into a discussion of the bloke with irritatingly loud and stupid laugh. However, the devil keeps on turning up to loads of the events I go to at the NFT and I've promised myself that I'm going to blow his knee caps off the next time I hear him laugh, and see how amusing he finds that! So if anyone from the NFT is reading this forum, be a love and kick him out on his ear if he shows his face at this years MBW. Otherwise all that blood will be such a bitch to get out of the nice new carpets!!!  |
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Post by Nick Gilbert on Sept 2, 2003 17:21:53 GMT
!?!?! you did get the last 15 mins of 'A for Andromeda' plus 30 mins of a previously lost play - isn't that enough!!! Only a decade ago, seeing both would have been virtually impossible. And 30+ years ago I could have watched them in their entirety! Times change and I feel the evening would have benefitted from a decent info sheet and some sort of structure to what was shown. The BFI can't be complacent. Only diehards like us could have enjoyed the evening. There was a group behind me where one had dragged the rest along and their comments were enlightening. They wouldn't be dragged there again! |
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Post by Andy Henderson on Sept 2, 2003 19:01:36 GMT
Yes, it must have made little sense to anyone who dropped in casually.
On another occasion at a BFI screening, the head of the film archive mentioned that they make up these programme titles well in advance and then spend the ‘last two weeks’ scrabbling and looking for material. As you mentioned, the notes were cheap and cheerful and what about the clips? The first two were genuine rarities, but what of the rest? A collection of half baked, anorak poking spectacles, topped by a Gilbert and Sullivan version of ‘Star Trek’. What I think we needed were more clips from otherwise missing programmes and perhaps a dig through much older programmes. If they’d stuck to pre 1969 material, it would have been much more fascinating. Perhaps length was a fault to – did we really need a complete Blue Peter ‘make’?
As for the eccentrics of the cinema, they never cease to amaze me. I’ve seen people writing whilst watching screenings, sandwiches and flasks with hard boiled eggs, people giving running narrations, people who hum (with music!), people who hum in the other sense of the word, the modern parents who bring kids to see the most unsuitable films imaginable, old crusties who remember seeing that 1930 film the first time round and tell everyone they did, people asking me for copies of programmes being screened, the list seems endless.
Spare a thought for ‘the voice’ – he seems to be well known in NFT circles. I’m sure the BBC could hire him to sit in their sitcom audiences….
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Post by Brian Fretwell on Sept 2, 2003 22:11:53 GMT
Well I was in the front row (my legs get cramped after a while elsewhere) and thankfully couldn't hear "The voice", I assure you it wasn't me.
The Scott clip was laughable in the wrong way, I know, but the film recording looked good after some not so good telecined items. I remember the type of presentation well and felt nostagic.
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Post by Mike S on Sept 4, 2003 1:54:12 GMT
God, the laughing man - ha ha ha HAAAH!!! Hahaha!!! Pfffffff!!!
Has anyone been able to isolate who he is? I'm pretty sure he was at the second screening of Dr Who ephemera, although he was fairly quiet on that occasion.
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Post by Andy Henderson on Sept 6, 2003 16:37:54 GMT
terminal isolation is what he needs....
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Post by Andy Henderson on Jun 30, 2006 11:17:38 GMT
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Post by Gary Jordan Brum on Jun 30, 2006 11:47:08 GMT
This is an old thread |
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