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Post by StephenW on Jul 19, 2005 8:20:29 GMT
Does anyone know if people have checked the foreign countries this programme was sold to for possible archive holdings? Plus, will it ever be released on DVD?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2005 12:39:58 GMT
I don't know exactly about where and when it was sold to, but this is definately up for a DVD release - by Network -, altough it has been on the cards already for quite a long time.
Probably sooner or later Network will finally their DVD release of Series 3 they have promised.
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Post by Graham Gourlay on Jul 19, 2005 17:02:15 GMT
Hello people, But it has been 1 1/2 years since Network told us about this release series 3 of Ace of Wands
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Post by Michael on Jul 19, 2005 19:52:45 GMT
I know one country that was sold Ace of Wands and that was Russia.
It may have been the late 70s or early 80s this happened;apparently there is a central archive in Moscow where TV material is kept,I presume for the Russian state TV.
Weather they still have the tapes of wiped or exisiting eps is open to question.
Were any of Wands put onto 16mm colour film like Tommorrow People was in 1980 when sold to Australia,as apparently they could'nt run PAL tapes.
It's what I was told,I don't know about Oz TV tech side,except that I think they-like TVNZ-used to transmit from V1500 tape.
Or was it chaeper to put shows onto 16mm t/r's for export to save on extra 2"tape costs?
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Post by John G on Jul 19, 2005 23:27:30 GMT
Thames TV use to out source their tr recordings to a company called 'colour film services' .A company that is still going today. Presumably CFS would strike a negative and then return the tape to Thames? So presumably a phone call from Thames and CFS could have quite easily looked after Thames's overseas markets? TRs would have made economic sense in those days as duplicating film was much quicker than tape as it did not have to be done in real time. Plus Eastman color was cheap and disposable.
TVNZ used colour TRs from CFS for many Thames programmes.
A long shot but Just maybe CFS has retained some Thames duplicating negatives? Although obviously CFS
has had many ups and downs since then, which might have involved financial decisions involving junking?
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Post by RB on Jul 31, 2005 9:57:42 GMT
Does anyone know how many audios for the missing episodes exist? I know Seven Serpents, Nightmare Gas and some of The Eye of Ra are about, but don't know if there are anymore??? RB
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Post by B Thomas on Aug 1, 2005 5:17:39 GMT
I have a feeling that audios also exist for "The Smile" but that's about it really.
As far as I can make out not all serials exist in their entirety on audio either...
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Post by An interested spectatot on Aug 3, 2005 11:21:51 GMT
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Post by An interested spectator on Aug 3, 2005 11:22:47 GMT
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Post by Nosmo King on Aug 3, 2005 13:10:21 GMT
Weather they still have the tapes of wiped or exisiting eps is open to question. That's the worst spell of "weather" (in context) I've seen in a long time  |
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Post by robby on Aug 3, 2005 20:36:22 GMT
mabe Ali bungo made them dissapear
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Post by Jon Preddle on Oct 16, 2005 4:11:09 GMT
Thames TV use to out source their tr recordings to a company called 'colour film services' .A company that is still going today. Presumably CFS would strike a negative and then return the tape to Thames? So presumably a phone call from Thames and CFS could have quite easily looked after Thames's overseas markets? TRs would have made economic sense in those days as duplicating film was much quicker than tape as it did not have to be done in real time. Plus Eastman color was cheap and disposable. TVNZ used colour TRs from CFS for many Thames programmes. A long shot but Just maybe CFS has retained some Thames duplicating negatives? Although obviously CFS has had many ups and downs since then, which might have involved financial decisions involving junking? In New Zealand we saw only the final series of Ace of Wands in 1975 in colour - starting with The Meddlers, and ending with Sisters Deadly. None of the previous series ever aired here. Jon Preddle |
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Post by Matthew K Sharp on Oct 16, 2005 6:29:57 GMT
Were any of Wands put onto 16mm colour film like Tommorrow People was in 1980 when sold to Australia,as apparently they could'nt run PAL tapes. It's what I was told,I don't know about Oz TV tech side,except that I think they-like TVNZ-used to transmit from V1500 tape. Australia has always been able to run PAL tapes - LWT was selling colour PAL tapes to the Seven Network in 1970, five years before colour broadcasting started! The Australian stardard has been a 625-line (PAL compatible) system since it started in 1956. The use of 16mm colour films of Tomorrow People and other assorted shows (some episodes of The Muppet Show, for instance) was considered a poor-quality oddity even in the 70s/80s. |
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Post by H Hartley on Oct 16, 2005 10:20:57 GMT
I think it was more of a question of tapes being a bit fickle in those days especially when they travelled.
A TR was more reliable and could be edited easier if there was any naughty words that offended the local transmission area . So therefore was handy as a backup.
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Post by Jon Preddle on Oct 16, 2005 21:23:12 GMT
I think it was more of a question of tapes being a bit fickle in those days especially when they travelled. A TR was more reliable and could be edited easier if there was any naughty words that offended the local transmission area . So therefore was handy as a backup. The NZBC didn't have telerecording facilities in the 1970s, so when they received tapes, they had to send them to Australia to get TRed. The series 'Timeslip' came on VT, and was TRed in 1973. In the late 1980s I received a fuzzy nth generation copy of the first serial of 'Timeslip' on tape, and was surprised to see a NZBC logo appear after the end credits! Obviously this video copy was run off the NZBC's TRed copy they'd sent back to the UK after the 1975 repeat of the series. Jon |
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