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Post by richardwoods on May 28, 2017 9:57:19 GMT
Both hosted by DLT so no chance of either of them appearing on TV anytime soon. They can show clips of the performances in a TOTP2 type format you would think, unless the Hairy Conflake intrudes into these. Personally I'd love to see John Miles doing Highfly from the 9/10/75 episode, a great track and much better than Music. Yeah, me too, although Music falls into the I know I shouldn't but I love it category.
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Post by richardwoods on May 25, 2017 20:45:57 GMT
I caught the end bit only, including the drippy Breakfast Time (or whatever it's called now ...) presenter saying something like "Surely we haven't lost any Dr Who"? Hopefully, it was immediately made clear that these are just the black-and-white shows! Just!!!
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Post by richardwoods on May 19, 2017 7:13:00 GMT
For all the pictures that people have already seen, do you recognise the pictures used? The only way my blood pressure would go up is if I saw a still that I didn't recognise. That would be a clever way to give away a hint. Just use a telesnap and take a still from a recovered episode about two or three frames after the telesnap and release it with a telesnap filter on it. You'd be pretty much giving the game away, but no one would notice. No one would notice!!! Seriously, lol
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Post by richardwoods on May 15, 2017 19:05:05 GMT
Awesome release!
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Post by richardwoods on May 15, 2017 19:04:25 GMT
Yikes, the perils of digital archiving writ large AGAIN! Thank goodness for traditional film archiving. When oh when will people realise that digital isn't the best solution for everything in the world?
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Post by richardwoods on May 11, 2017 19:54:51 GMT
Electrickery!
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Post by richardwoods on May 4, 2017 15:19:25 GMT
Hi Adam, I wonder if this could be the Orange Bicycle footage which is at the BFI?... BFI Identifier 589035 Candid Camera - Programme 10 Production Country United Kingdom Production Company ABC Television Synopsis: Four Candid Camera Sequences ii) Four men try to rehearse in a recording studio but one is not genuine and cannot sing: he also interrupts the others by 'playing' the guitar. Held on 16 mm Original Negative -CTA-Mute-642 Feet-Stock Date:1966 Sounds good to me! But mute... All we need to do now is find a home taper Candid Camera fan.......
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Post by richardwoods on Apr 29, 2017 11:09:40 GMT
Does anyone with a bit more knowledge of the recovery know if the performance of The Man Who Stole the World by Lulu that was reputedly in the PVL has survived?
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Post by richardwoods on Apr 28, 2017 19:43:41 GMT
Can't fault your efforts but sadly it doesn't work for me I'm afraid. But then again as most of you know I'm not keen on telesnap recons either.
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Post by richardwoods on Apr 27, 2017 16:53:56 GMT
Interestingly enough according to a quote from 2011 on the old Popscene forum Chris from Kal was being a bit scathing about what was actually held. Do we know for sure that everything else supposedly junked was actually in their possession?
This is a direct lift from the Popscene forum and was posted by Kevin Mulrennen on 17/03/2011.
Here's Chris from Kal's view. The bloke is an expert so knows what he's talking about. You may have seen him in the Bob Monkhouse stuff recently.
Chris says on missing eps:
Can we please stop dredging up this old PVL clap-trap time and again?
Kal have had discussions with individuals that claim to represent PVL.
They have failed to provide us with a list of anything definitive, failed to show us any clips, lied about the name used to contact us, claimed that they only hold clips of missing material (not whole shows) now copied onto Betacam SP (a modern format that anyone could access so it would be easy to verify).
We broke off contact with them because of various spurious claims including my discovery that my so-called contact was using a false name to talk to me lol.
I am happy to talk to Ken direct about this collection. The BBC were also interested in talking direct to Ken but £20,000 is a lot for a small amount of missing material in non-broadcast quality (bw I was told, in the main off reel to reel and umatic sources).
Perhaps there are some real gems in this collection, but none of us are going to see it again unless you want to give £20,000 to a third party fixer. Do you? I don't lol.
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Post by richardwoods on Apr 26, 2017 17:49:06 GMT
The vast majority ISNT safe - Chris Perry stated that ~95% of the 8000 tapes in the original library had been destroyed. Mostly existing material they think. Bear in mind that Chris only broke this story yesterday morning so details are still sketchy. However there are strong hints there are more TOTP's to come. Chris has stated that there has been a partial recovery of the 500th show, although he hasnt gone into details yet apart from saying Ken hadnt recorded all of it. Plenty of room there for the glass half empty/full people. 95% of 8000=7600. A 'majority' of that as known material could in theory leave 3799 as bad news! Aaaaaargh, starts head butting wall. 😱😱😱
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Post by richardwoods on Apr 26, 2017 9:16:51 GMT
Hi John, great news that the majority of the PVL is safe and beginning to see the light of day. Has a list of the original holdings been found? Does anyone have any idea what still exists and (gulp) what's been lost? The vast majority ISNT safe - Chris Perry stated that ~95% of the 8000 tapes in the original library had been destroyed. Mostly existing material they think. Bear in mind that Chris only broke this story yesterday morning so details are still sketchy. However there are strong hints there are more TOTP's to come. Chris has stated that there has been a partial recovery of the 500th show, although he hasnt gone into details yet apart from saying Ken hadnt recorded all of it. Oh no, what a shame. I suppose that at least 5% is better than nothing. Let's hope that not too much "missing" material has gone.
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Post by richardwoods on Apr 25, 2017 18:54:04 GMT
Hi John, great news that the majority of the PVL is safe and beginning to see the light of day. Has a list of the original holdings been found? Does anyone have any idea what still exists and (gulp) what's been lost?
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Post by richardwoods on Apr 14, 2017 20:11:17 GMT
At the moment Snowmen & Evil or possibly Fury.
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Post by richardwoods on Apr 14, 2017 12:17:41 GMT
VHF used to pickup various electrical interference, lights motors etc that's my abiding memory of TV in Australia, that and a diabolical ABC signal on a curly wurly onset aerial ;-) And not forgetting that 405 line sets caused audio oscillator noise on 1500m long wave too!
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