Simon Collis
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I have started to dream of lost things
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Post by Simon Collis on Dec 4, 2013 20:46:29 GMT
Things like this twitter account annoy me because I can't tell if there is any reality behind it, or if it is just someone kidding around ... Slightly off topic but that account's been suspended now. That means someone has complained to Twitter and they've suspended it - you can't, as a user, cause that yourself. You can cause the account to disappear, but it gives a 404 (not found) page rather than a suspended page. In other news, I spend far too much time on Twitter.
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Dec 15, 2013 7:26:48 GMT
And then it was synthpopalooza who reposted that info here on 01 Jan 2007: 11:47 AM ... missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/3593/missing-episodes-zambiaI knew that New Years 2007 had something to do with it! And then LanceM said that he had contacted Chrispin Hamooya of the National Archives of Zambia previously, so perhaps all this was know previous to any of my posts. I remember reading that article of yours at some point in 2009, when I was still a lurker I do seem to remember some threads involving a lot of posts about Zambia, though like you said, I think the consensus that came back in the end was that the uncategorised films had been checked, and there was no missing Doctor Who (or indeed other shows like Dad's Army, Adam Adamant, etc) amongst them. Not sure who checked them, when they did it, or what actually was there though. Does anyone know if this information was ever released? Well, what Paul Vanezis said in late 2009 was that Zambia had disposed of its stock of foreign (e.g., British) film in the 1980s. That said, it wasn't clear if those films disposed of by destroying them or perhaps they were just shipped elsewhere. So, there was some information released, but maybe more will be told about this eventually. When I came across in Dec. 2006 that description of Zambian television having 10,000 boxes of 16 mm prints with vinegar syndrome and no playback equipment to see what was on these films, it really underscored for me the enormous potential that Zambia and all of Africa held for the recovery of missing episodes of Doctor Who. And, of course, the vinegar syndrome underscored for me the possibility that action would need to be taken swiftly in case any existing films might be in poor storage conditions. Plus, as we have read, various civil wars and fires and such can also take a toll over the years.
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