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Post by richardwoods on Mar 30, 2024 15:56:15 GMT
Let’s hope so
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Post by richardwoods on Mar 11, 2024 8:58:20 GMT
I always think that the loss of all those Dixon episodes is desperately sad as it represents a great example BBC family TV during a time that I, and I suspect a lot of others on here were growing up. Not to mention all the effort, time and money that went in to making them of course. It was also always there during a period of major social change and provided a reassuring anchor for many older people during that time.
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Post by richardwoods on Mar 11, 2024 8:42:31 GMT
I used to use his forum back in the early 2000’s and found it an invaluable source of information. Sad to hear of his passing.
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Post by richardwoods on Jan 22, 2024 12:30:21 GMT
To start with the end: There was NO "extra" footage shown in the Netherlands when they aired I, Claudius: Zeus, by Jove. This concerns the scene, of course, where Caligula murders his sister in a fit of madness (one fit of many, or perhaps just one very long fit). Cuts were made at the last minute behind the director's back and an extra edit after broadcast. It was rumoured that a less edited version was shown in the Netherlands. Now first of all I must partly take responsability for keeping the idea alive in the first place. I occasionally mentioned it on message boards such as this. But it was reported, at the time, by director Paul Verhoeven in a newspaper article. That made it worth checking. People also reported details that they remembered seeing. But as mentioned above, it was a false hope. An off-air finally turned up in the Netherlands last year; but it was identical. So that's the end of that story. Only a UK off air tape might shed any light on what was edited after the premiere. (Maybe that was just the music and credits being matched better.) The only possible takeaway is that a scene like this can have a certain effect: Because a lot is implied, viewers will add that to their memory. I don't even think anyone lied deliberately. Secondly, it's still a horrible moment, and that probably led people to think they had seen the uncut version. I'm still glad that I followed up - thanks to M.F. for checking. Good bit of research, let’s hope an off air from the UK first broadcast turns up, unlikely as it is. Without wishing to start the debate off again, I’m convinced that the first screening was cut less but I do accept that the memory can cheat.
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Post by richardwoods on Jan 12, 2024 7:05:27 GMT
Don’t encourage him! 🤣🤣🤣. Only kidding 😉
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Post by richardwoods on Dec 14, 2023 14:55:56 GMT
One thing to note is how discoveries have changed in recent years.... When I started doing this in the latter part of the 2000s, and I hadnae got a Scooby of what I was doing I took advice from a lot of people; this was also around the time youtube started. A particular gent told me my discoveries were all 'rubbish' as they were on digital and not the original film/video tape. So for around six months I contacted uploaders to ask if they could send the original film/tape to whichever respective archive was appropriate. Most didn't reply. A significant percentage had disposed of the original film/tape for varying reasons and the digital copy was all that existed. I think there was only one case in which the actual film was returned. Anyway, I went back to the gent who was giving me advice and said 'look, most of these uploaders have disposed of the original film/tape, what do I do?'. He still maintained digital files were 'not good enough'. So I sent back a polite, but very sarcastic missive saying that should I ever find a Doctor Who and it was on a digital format only because the owner had transferred their film/tape because it was decaying, I'd take his advice word-for-word, reject it as 'rubbish' and bin it. He blocked me. That reminds me of my call to the BBC Treasure Hunt. “Yes, the radio programs you have are missing from the archive, but because they aren’t recorded at professional speed (15 IPS) and the content will no longer be suitable for broadcast, we don’t want them”. Not bad for missing children’s radio broadcasts recorded in high quality off FM.
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Post by richardwoods on Dec 14, 2023 14:41:23 GMT
Thanks Geoff, the TV Ark one is from the correct year & has the leaves. The main promo started in late summer from memory and had lively music running along with the leaves segmenting and going off screen. Clips of the new program offerings were then shown, with the leaves recombining and resegmenting between clips.
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Post by richardwoods on Dec 7, 2023 13:26:36 GMT
Slightly OT by a few months but does anyone know if the "Autumn on ITV" promo with the memorable "segmented leaves" and music survive. 1976 I think but could be a year out either way? Just in case anyone missed my question?
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Post by richardwoods on Nov 22, 2023 18:25:32 GMT
I'd be more interested if the country that phoned in the early 1990s, and which was told their copies were not wanted, really destroyed them or just left them somewhere under the stairs/propping up a table/for test film. But that sounds like one of the things that PM would check. Good point.
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Post by richardwoods on Nov 22, 2023 18:10:48 GMT
I wonder if an audio exists anywhere of the same concert that could be synched up?
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Post by richardwoods on Nov 22, 2023 15:42:10 GMT
Slightly OT by a few months but does anyone know if the "Autumn on ITV" promo with the memorable "segmented leaves" and music survive. 1976 I think but could be a year out either way?
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Post by richardwoods on Nov 18, 2023 14:53:07 GMT
Basil & Mr Derek are definitely the best combo for me!
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Post by richardwoods on Oct 20, 2023 15:17:57 GMT
"As the perfect companion to the back catalogue, the BBC will simultaneously launch an extensive online archive from the show’s history at bbc.co.uk/doctorwho, with everything from interviews with cast to written documents, long unheard audio, and behind-the-scenes photos. Together, they tell the story of the ground-breaking series through 60 archive gems for the 60th anniversary." Anyone know what the "long unheard audio" is? Accidental recording of Verity Lambert organising her shopping list with an unnamed individual on the phone when a reel to reel recorder was left running perhaps?
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Post by richardwoods on Oct 16, 2023 8:44:20 GMT
Oh well, perhaps they will end up tagged as an extra on a DVD like the last one did with the film.
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Post by richardwoods on Oct 9, 2023 15:36:53 GMT
I think I asked this before to deafening silence. Does anyone remember a visual for a Bowie track with Bowie, (or a Bowie alike) seeing Angie (or an Angie alike) off on a departing steam train? No idea which track but I seem to remember it being on TOTP? I'm going to research briefly. Eschewing the 69 Space Oddity release, it would have to come in the 72-75 period, right? Bowie's next hit single after 69 was in 1972. If it was a Caravel film - as all Bowie's own promo films are accounted for it would have to have been transmitted sometime between 1972 and the last Caravel (which appears to be 'My Boy', Elvis, which is extant and was last shown January 1975). Ergo, the singles in that period were:- Starman - no Caravel made John I'm Only Dancing - Caravel Film exists the Jean Genie - artist promo shown and exists Drive-In Saturday - Caravel Film missing, but a rough description involving a couple, a car, and a 'video machine' is known Life on Mars - BBC film shown and exists the Laughing Gnome - Caravel Film exists Sorrow - no Caravel Film made Rebel Rebel - Pans People dance (exists) no Caravel Film made Rock and Roll Suicide - song not transmitted Diamond Dogs - song not transmitted Knock on Wood -Caravel Film exists This doesn't look great, but I am NOT dissing your memory here.It was only a few wee years ago that we had no paperwork or anything except a few viewers memories about the lost Drive-In Saturday Caravel - and after my visit to BBC Caversham it transpired that the PasB for 19/04/1973 edition was lost. In fact, the recent discovery of the Xmas Day 1967 TOTP audio shows the programme had Traffic on it - which is not listed on the 'Popscene' database (the 'go-to' for TOTP information) It wasn't even known that a BBC Film was made for the Big O's 'It's Over' (in Stratford Upon Avon) by contemporary TV historians until last month. Your memory may well be right. I am not discounting this possibility of an unlogged or forgotten and disregarded Bowie Caravel Film being shown. It's just I can't prove there was one right now. Cheers Ray. No issues with questioning memory, I’m the first to realise that it can cheat. Timescales look spot on. I was wondering if it might have been something from the early 70’s TOTP album spot, it could even have been stock footage of Bowie seeing Angie off on the train, my thoughts are that it could well have been. Are you sure that there was no film made for Rebel Rebel as that rings a bell as a possibility?
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