Found: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? 1954 cut footage
May 15, 2014 19:30:30 GMT
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Post by RWels on May 15, 2014 19:30:30 GMT
Missing footage from a 1954 episode of Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? recovered in an American quiz show.
Last year the BBC website had a theme called Archaeology at the BBC.
Part of the programs available online was the earliest (1954) surviving episode of Animal, vegetable, mineral?.
As an amateur archaeologist I knew this show from the highly amusing "Bluffer's guide to archaeology" and also I had seen a few spoofs made years later, testifying to its fame, so I checked it out. It didn't quite live up to its reputation, but...
If you look carefully the 1954 episode has been cut at (using the iplayer file) 00:26, 04:17, 05,32, 18:33, and 20:00 (most noticably the introduction of the panel, and of one of the mystery items). It should have been 30 minutes instead of 25.
So where did that footage go? Well, here, in the CBS show What in the world.
This show "What in the world" is the US original of AVM?, and this episode was made to match the British one by using the same objects and... clips from the BBC show. These clips fit like a jigsaw, even completing sentences. Seems they were cut directly from the telerecording. (They might even be the reason for its existance.)
Nearly 4 minutes can be reinstated, all found with the help of online sources.
On the downside, the opening is still incomplete, and the quality of the missing bits is decidely lower, to say the least. The Pennsylvania University / Museum does not have the film inserts that were used (I checked), and it would be extremely lucky if those were still around at CBS.
Last year the BBC website had a theme called Archaeology at the BBC.
Part of the programs available online was the earliest (1954) surviving episode of Animal, vegetable, mineral?.
As an amateur archaeologist I knew this show from the highly amusing "Bluffer's guide to archaeology" and also I had seen a few spoofs made years later, testifying to its fame, so I checked it out. It didn't quite live up to its reputation, but...
If you look carefully the 1954 episode has been cut at (using the iplayer file) 00:26, 04:17, 05,32, 18:33, and 20:00 (most noticably the introduction of the panel, and of one of the mystery items). It should have been 30 minutes instead of 25.
So where did that footage go? Well, here, in the CBS show What in the world.
This show "What in the world" is the US original of AVM?, and this episode was made to match the British one by using the same objects and... clips from the BBC show. These clips fit like a jigsaw, even completing sentences. Seems they were cut directly from the telerecording. (They might even be the reason for its existance.)
Nearly 4 minutes can be reinstated, all found with the help of online sources.
On the downside, the opening is still incomplete, and the quality of the missing bits is decidely lower, to say the least. The Pennsylvania University / Museum does not have the film inserts that were used (I checked), and it would be extremely lucky if those were still around at CBS.
