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Post by Laurence Piper on Jan 2, 2006 14:18:28 GMT
Ah, I see. I didn't know the exact nauture of the original programme (don't know why I missed it at the time, Beatles fan that I was / am). Just to clarify though, Mark, the recovered item is the complete John Lennon segment of the longer programme and is a colour t/r (for the studio parts) and colour / b&w film cut in for the rest?
One other thing, does the rest of the show (Kennedy etc) survive already or is that still missing?
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Post by Mark Tinkler on Jan 3, 2006 2:27:56 GMT
As far as I know, the rest of the show does not survive... but I have now returned to the BFI (and Dick will be sending it onto Carlton International) the complete Lennon segment. For more info on it, check out this link - homepage.ntlworld.com/carousel/pob02.html |
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Post by H Hartley on Jan 3, 2006 15:01:50 GMT
MarkT .
I would just like to say an excellent piece of discovery/work, well done!
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Post by Peter Chadwick on Jan 3, 2006 17:41:02 GMT
I think Yoko Ono may also have a copy, as clips are used in the 'Imagine : John Lennon' film/documentary.
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Post by Wright Blan on Jan 4, 2006 3:09:58 GMT
As far as I know, the rest of the show does not survive... but I have now returned to the BFI (and Dick will be sending it onto Carlton International) the complete Lennon segment. For more info on it, check out this link - homepage.ntlworld.com/carousel/pob02.html Interesting page. But gosh, that background's kinda creepy, isn't it?  |
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Post by Peter Chadwick on Jan 4, 2006 8:59:04 GMT
As far as I know, the rest of the show does not survive... but I have now returned to the BFI (and Dick will be sending it onto Carlton International) the complete Lennon segment. For more info on it, check out this link - homepage.ntlworld.com/carousel/pob02.html Interesting page. But gosh, that background's kinda creepy, isn't it? It's an image used on the Plastic Ono Band's 'Cold Turkey' picture sleeve. |
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Post by Mark Tinkler on Jan 4, 2006 10:04:54 GMT
Yoko does indeed have a copy but it's lacking a few minutes... her copy is a VHS copy supplied to her by Andrew Solt's team who put together the "Imagine" documentary that was released initially some years ago but is now being released on DVD.
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Post by Laurence Piper on Jan 4, 2006 19:48:15 GMT
Are they the same people who have a copy of the Parkinson edition too? Or does Yoko have that herself? I've wanted to know where that one resides (obviously not at the BBC, although it survives in some form - possibly a colour t/r as this is how it is seen in the clip used in the Imagine film).
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Post by Mark Tinkler on Jan 5, 2006 9:30:41 GMT
Yes, they are.
BBC do now have a viewing copy as I sent it there a couple of months ago...
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Post by Laurence Piper on Jan 5, 2006 14:10:31 GMT
Yes, they are. BBC do now have a viewing copy as I sent it there a couple of months ago... Ah, thanks Mark. Very interesting to know. Are the BBC interested in a broadcast standard copy as well as a VHS viewing copy though, with a view to returning a dub to the archives? Presumably the original is a colour t/r rather than VT? Whatever, it's good to know that such an important edition survives. Be good to see the whole thing eventually. The clips used in the film are so tantalising. |
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Post by Mark Tinkler on Jan 6, 2006 9:57:39 GMT
As far as John & Yoko on Parkinson is concerned, the BBC have wiped their video master years ago, and the only reason anything survives is that a 16mm colour telerecording/kinescope was made at some time. I believe the master of that now lies somewhere at Andrew Solt productions - the BBC and Yoko have a VHS of that... though I have to say the viewing copy I returned to the BBC could be transmitted at a pinch once some restoration work had been done on it. The original tele-rcording was so bad...!!
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Post by andrew martin on Jan 6, 2006 13:42:55 GMT
I'd be interested to know which bit of the BBC it was returned to as it hasn't reached the archive as far as I know!
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Post by Laurence Piper on Jan 6, 2006 16:40:31 GMT
Can you by some chance negotiate a safe return to the archives of a broadcast standard copy, Andrew? Before this t/r is also gone for good. It's a landmark piece of TV and
too important a programme to be missing from the BBC! We all want to see this one again.
Andrew Solt productions...!? Now there's a definite lead to follow up if ever I saw one.
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Post by Andrew Doherty on Jan 6, 2006 17:15:29 GMT
This programme should have been sent to Christine Slattery at the Brentford Archive. This is where all BBC programmes that are missing should be sent, whether direct or via the BFI.
Yours,
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Post by Wright Blan on Jan 7, 2006 2:23:41 GMT
Interesting page. But gosh, that background's kinda creepy, isn't it? It's an image used on the Plastic Ono Band's 'Cold Turkey' picture sleeve. Interesting. Is it susposed to be cold turkeys, or x-rays of a human skull? That's what I thought I was seeing the first time. BTW: Do you know what else was creepy? Seeing two smilies from different posts with their eyes bulging out in tandem! Weird. |
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