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Post by Douglas Wulf on Oct 20, 2016 4:04:57 GMT
I purchased my tickets the moment the theatrical showings were announced.
I tend to think that this version of 'Power' will be very, very enthusiastically received. There will be nothing to complain about.
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Oct 3, 2016 11:00:20 GMT
Ed:
No worries!
Just to clarify what happened there, someone on PMF asked me if I knew about the origin of the rumor that missing episode announcements would be made in 'tranches.' This was a rumor back in 2013 and 2014.
In answer to that direct question posed to me, and with the alert that I was discussing pure rumor (which I usually try to avoid), I quoted some old posts about 'Phase 1' and 'Phase 2' and so forth, and then showed (with quotes) how the rumor had died because a person's source said that the idea of having 'tranches' had ultimately been abandoned.
Those words about DMP 11 and 12 were just part of that poster's original quote from years back. That is, those words were just included because they were part of the original context. I know nothing about any stuck-together prints of any sort.
However, as I said before, thanks for verifying that that was really me and not some hoaxer, since that did indeed happen to me previously.
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Oct 3, 2016 0:00:45 GMT
This is great news!!! Looks like were getting answers, BIG answers. I didn't mean to say (and stated so in the opening of my thread) that this was a pointer, or an answer, to the current existence of Power, just that it may have survived a bit longer than we always assumed. Been a lot of nonsense this weekend about a November 'massive announcement' (during the release of animated POTD - yeah right!) Also, some prankster using our much-respected Douglas Wulf's good name (as before link missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/9714/hoaxer) to say that episodes have been found in Ireland that were 'illegally-telecined' and that DMP 11& 12 are still 'stuck together' (for shame). I wish this guy (or two) would pack it in for good, as their 'lists' and 'dates' raises hopes (for the millionth time since 2013). It is also fraud to use another's name. Have tried to challenge him, but no answer, sadly. Of course we'll get more missing Who, but not in any one's predicted time - and a returned Web 3 and only that would be enough of an announcement for me. But now, back to the subject of that private '78 showing of Power... Where was someone posting about Ireland and DMP 11 and 12 using my name? On Amazon perhaps? Or on Planet Mondas Forum? I posted no such thing myself, although on PMF I quoted an old post by DuffHimself because I was asked about it. That was just quoting, not claiming. Can you let me know if someone was posting under my name elsewhere? (Thanks so much for looking out for me too!)
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Sept 20, 2016 1:21:35 GMT
With the new animation coming out, I figured that I would take a look back on The Power of the Daleks Reimagined, a remake of the classic story. But to my grief, I found that it had been removed for being too professional by the BBC. Does anyone remember this/know where it can still be seen? The bonus disc of the upcoming 'Power' DVD perhaps?
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Aug 23, 2016 3:22:39 GMT
Hi all, Now I expect this question has been asked online before in many places, but I have yet to come across the answer. Apologies for my ignorance if it has already been dealt with but here is my potentially naïve question... Pretty much every part of the omni rumour that has floated around since October 2013 seems to claim that somewhere between 109 and 96 missing episodes of Doctor Who have been found and this is a convenient number given that it matches the number of missing episodes. Occasionally we're told that the Feast of Steven is not included, but the details are always sketchy. What I really don't understand about the rumour is that there were over 200 black and white episodes of Doctor Who in the 60s, so the chances of finding the missing ones in isolation is nigh-on impossible as there would no doubt be some which we already had. In which case, there'd have be a discovery of more than 96 (most likely a full set altogether) to achieve the collation of the missing episodes. That, or a percentage of the 96 found were not 'missing' and were mainly ones we already had. In which case, there might only be, say, 9 episodes we didn't already have. Which makes sense given that 9 have already been announced. Perhaps I'm questioning a topic most people have already disregarded ny now, but it feels like a lot of people are still churning up the same '96 episode goldmine' scenario, and every time I fail to see how this is remotely possible. Any thoughts? For what it's worth, the early iterations of the Omnirumour from c.June 2013 do/did indeed cover this, indicating that a total of 300-odd reels of 60s Who had been discovered including (insert number of your choice) missing ones...). And those 300-odd reels of film are/were supposedly a small element among thousands of other non-Who finds. There's plenty about the Omnirumour to stretch credibility (especially in the way it's evolved since 2013), but if you go back to the original stories, they did make sense on this level at least. It's just that when people talk about number x recovered, they tend to be focussing on the missing ones (for obvious reasons...) Those early rumors are certainly what keep me hoping.
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Aug 10, 2016 3:18:25 GMT
Phil Morris did what no one else had done before (except for Paul Vanezis in Cyprus), and that was to go places in person and have a proper look. It has been described as a no-stone-left-unturned search.
We haven't yet been told exactly what was found in this search, beyond the episodes of Web and Enemy and a few other non-Who finds. The rumor has been that more was found. We shall see.
The Omnirumor may not be true, but the missing episode Omnisafari did factually occur. We can all be grateful that the effort was made. It might never have happened but for Phil Morris coming along and making it happen, along with those who worked with him.
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Aug 10, 2016 3:10:23 GMT
After Phil Morris visits, the TV station certainly will be empty.
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Aug 5, 2016 12:15:14 GMT
You know Douglas....methinks you know a lot more than you would like us to think... I really don't though! It's just that Phil Morris and others have conducted this global search and the results of the effort must be revealed (even if only partially) at some point. It seems to me that Mr. Morris and Mr. Fiddy will probably have more to say and more to show than just to recount yet again how the episodes of Enemy and Web were found in Jos and how that episode of the Sky at Night with Arthur C. Clark was located. Yes, that might happen, but I just suspect that more than that will be shared.
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Aug 4, 2016 21:16:13 GMT
Phil Morris finds films. Dick Fiddy restores films. This is a film festival. It would therefore make sense for them to bring a film of some sort (assuming they have one to show, which I strongly suspect they do).
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Aug 4, 2016 2:01:07 GMT
Oh, I see that Phil Morris and Dick Fiddy will be appearing together at the Starburst Film Festival in Manchester on August 27. I wonder what they will have to say! Wouldn't it be wonderful if they had missing episodes of Doctor Who to show at the festival? But none have been worked on unfortunately.
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Aug 3, 2016 2:33:05 GMT
As I said at the time, even if the Omnirumour was true, the restoration process is incredibly long. If the Restoration Team worked flat out with no breaks and decent quality films, they would have finished probably just a few months ago. Being in any way realistic, it would be 2018 or 2019 before we heard anything. In reality, that isn't how it would work though. The existing DW material that was released on DVD wasn't all prepared in advance and then released. It was done gradually a few months in advance of when it was required for an upcoming title. Even if all the missing episodes had been located, there would be no reason to expect them to have all gone through complete restoration prior to any announcement being made. If that many episodes were recovered, they'd be released gradually, and restored in that manner as well. Not that any episodes have been worked on since Enemy and Web three years ago. So Marco Polo was worked on prior to Enemy and Web?
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Aug 1, 2016 2:15:37 GMT
In answer to the original question, I can't imagine that there will be any announcement of a mass find in connection with this book. If it outlines the efforts made by Phil Morris then it is probably to draw a line under the searches he has made. That is not to say that nothing new will ever be found again but rather that Phil's searches have not turned up anything other than the NINE. What I can imagine is the announcement that he did actually find a can with say Toymaker 1 in it (insert any episode), but it was so badly degraded that it could not be retrieved and that he didn't announce that because he didn't want to disappoint. After all, he did delay the announcement of WOF 3 in order not to jeopardise the potential recovery. A line is not drawn under the search until such time that such a line is drawn ... if and when it is. There has been nothing stated officially one way or the other. What we do know is that a search was indeed made. For that, we can all be grateful. The search led at least to the find of ten missing episodes and the successful recovery of nine of those ten. More may have been located and recovered, but further information has not yet been disclosed. The search has already been a success, but it's just a question of whether the search has been more successful than we yet know. We have been told repeatedly though that the results will eventually be disclosed, and despite a lengthy passage of time, I have no reason to doubt that we will be told.
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Apr 7, 2016 6:03:06 GMT
It was my friend Gordon (Hendry) who recovered the Faceless ones ep 3 and he bought it along with Evil 2, from a car boot sale, so we can't be certain. Wheel 3 is also unlikely as the film collector I got it from (along with The Dominators Ep & Crisis Ep)had them since around 1973. Oh, I fully meant to write Wheel 3, but it came out as Faceless Ones 3 because it is another episode 3 that had been found! Well, the origin of all of the prints that you and Gordon found is an interesting question. I wonder if there would be anything about the leader or the sort of reel or anything of that sort that would provide some indication.
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Apr 6, 2016 5:46:31 GMT
Thanks for that Douglas, Actually I recall Ian levine was desperate to see the episode in case it ended on a cliffhanger..lol! I just feel very fortunate to have recovered all the Archive TV that I have over the years. xx I'm sure it's been clarified elsewhere, but was that print of Faceless Ones 3 that you got from that batch of Australian episodes apparently sent back to the UK in 1975? Or was it perhaps not clear where the print was from?
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Apr 5, 2016 18:14:24 GMT
Yes Mexico had most of the first season (and probably still have) in spanish on 16mm. Though not Marco Polo. I recovered part 3 of Planet of Giants in Spanish as well, so there must have been a fair few spanish and arabic ones made. Thank you for your recovery of missing epodes, David! I don't suppose, by any chance, you also recovered a Spanish-language print of Planet of Giants episode 4? That would have been particularly impressive!
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