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Post by richardwoods on Oct 8, 2023 18:50:35 GMT
Amazing. There’s hope for Evil of the Daleks yet. 😉
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Post by richardwoods on Oct 8, 2023 18:40:48 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?
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Post by richardwoods on Oct 8, 2023 18:31:39 GMT
Hi Ray,
Excellent news!
As you mentioned the satellite broadcast, I posted a few years back that the visual to The Laughing Gnome was shown on the Onyx satellite music channel in 1996/7.
I was completely gob smacked that it was missing as I had stupidly assumed that, as it was a regular on kids tv request shows in the 70’s, like the Sugar Sugar cartoon, it would have survived, reinforced by watching it on Onyx relatively recently. Great to see it again, it has really made me smile.
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Post by richardwoods on Oct 2, 2023 13:54:24 GMT
Excellent. This sort of recovery gives us all hope for future ITV archive discoveries.
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Post by richardwoods on Oct 2, 2023 11:20:41 GMT
Incredible news! Makes you wonder if the original VT’s of the series have been sat in the ITV archive all along. First reports that I hear suggest it's film, so it may be "just" a telerecording. I’m assuming black & white although the cover pictures suggest colour?
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Post by richardwoods on Oct 2, 2023 10:12:11 GMT
Incredible news! Makes you wonder if the original VT’s of the series have been sat in the ITV archive all along.
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Post by richardwoods on Sept 13, 2023 13:58:43 GMT
Nice to get to hear the episode rather than have it locked away! That page says the BBC only have 7 episodes from the 40's, anyone have a list of the dates? (I know two of them are 1942.10.29 & 1943.02.16) Looking on tvbrain.info it says that eleven episodes (ranging 1950-63) exist as domestic recordings. As far as I can remember there were a lot of episodes in the collection at the factory, let’s hope they haven’t all been junked.
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Post by richardwoods on Sept 13, 2023 13:13:28 GMT
Response from my friend doesn’t sound too hopeful.
“Will ask but think most of the stuff got binned”.
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Post by richardwoods on Sept 13, 2023 8:38:27 GMT
Message sent 🤞
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Post by richardwoods on Sept 13, 2023 8:30:24 GMT
Way back in the mid 80’s I worked for a transformer company in Louth, Lincs as technical support to the MD. The firm was a very eccentric place to work in all sorts of ways I won’t go into here but the boss had a massive collection of Workers Playtime recordings he used to put on mid afternoon as the older ladies working on the production line enjoyed them. Sadly I heard that the boss passed away a few years ago and unsurprisingly the firm folded not long afterwards. Apparently there is a small company operating in one of the old units still connected with the family I believe, & I’m still in contact with one of the guys who works for them. Will drop him a WhatsApp & see if he thinks any of the recordings may still exist.
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Post by richardwoods on Sept 12, 2023 6:51:51 GMT
I was recording episodes to DVD until recently, my machine started to be a bit temperamental so I just use a hard drive recorded these days & hope it behaves itself. I was in a similar situation & managed to get a decent Sony DVD Recorder with 160Gbs hard drive off eBay for £40. There’s bargains to be had if you are prepared to take the risk. Mind you I always found the eBay guarantee to be good so far. Very good results on HQ setting & the hard dive allows easy editing.
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Post by richardwoods on Sept 11, 2023 9:41:55 GMT
but wouldn't most landfills from yonks ago have been redeveloped on after their lifespan, gee I can imagine some film hunters with diggers and tools coming up to the householders with "we believe you may have lost films buried under your house" "Do you mind if we level your living room, you know, just in case? My friend here has a JCB so we shan't take too long - and we promise to make good when once we're done." [several hours after said house is completely destroyed] "Well, there's nothing here, sorry about that. I don't suppose you know when your neighbour gets back from work, do you?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Absolutely hilarious
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Post by richardwoods on Sept 11, 2023 8:51:57 GMT
Well, me for a start. Apple software is still designed to let you burn & reload from a plug in drive, thank goodness. I do use the cloud for our 39,000 and growing photo archive but that’s our private life, stuff that’s in the public domain I prefer hard copy.
I will stream ephemeral stuff for entertainment but if I particularly like a series I will consider buying a copy for my own collection and always will if it’s an old series that I really want to see.
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Post by richardwoods on Sept 11, 2023 6:57:16 GMT
I think that the best conclusion to draw is that no archive is ever “safe”.
As we know buildings and their contents can be destroyed in war or riot.
To my mind, It’s always about risk reduction & the proliferation of hard copy in the form of vinyl, tape, cd, dvd & Blu-ray has been a great help in securing the country’s broadcast legacy.
Which ever way you look at it, the move to streaming for both audio and video material is bad news for security of material, if the masters get destroyed, then what?
It also gives too much power to anyone with an agenda to distort the past by censoring or otherwise restricting material and thereby preventing the masses from accessing it.
How should we deal with this? Multiple copies in multiple locations to give multiple masters, strict guidelines & rules over access, personally as pretty much a free speech absolutist, I would like to see open access to material in some form, but appreciate that might be difficult.
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Post by richardwoods on Sept 10, 2023 12:24:06 GMT
The Gang of Four, mmm, I quite like the sound of that despite the echoes of Chinese Politics. What do you recon guys? Though it has SDP connotations too! Difficult times lie ahead for the high priests of PC as they're in the minority (probably even on here) and more and more ordinary people see it. Must order extra popcorn for the general election next year Yeah, had completely forgotten about the SDP Gang of Four 🤣🤣👍🏻
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