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Post by lousingh on Jan 5, 2024 0:01:15 GMT
Hi all — AFAIK, the BBC never published “Tenth Planet” as one of their “photonovels” online, so I was wondering what’s the highest-quality place they’ve been publicly released? If memory serves, the BBC sold a VHS tape with the Loose Cannon recon.
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Post by lousingh on Dec 25, 2023 23:37:50 GMT
I could live with more animations. If nothing else, I hope that the BBC put the Loose Cannon recons on BritBox.
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Post by lousingh on Oct 13, 2023 16:50:13 GMT
Wow, less than a year after the first Tom Baker episodes aired. I hadn't realised that the later Pertwees vanished so fast and so completely in the USA. I could have sworn that WNED in Niagara Falls played some season 11 as late as summer 1979. I guess the memory does cheat! Here is the research put together by Jon Preddle on WNED if you are curious broadwcast.org/index.php/BuffaloThe best example of "out of order" was running "Genesis of the Daleks" right before "The Invasion of Time." Also, the first run of seasons 12-15 were edited to run in 22 minutes and were narrated by Howard DaSilva. I remember how shocked my siblings and I were at how long Part One of "Genesis of the Daleks" was when we saw it on TVOntario.
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Post by lousingh on Oct 7, 2023 20:42:15 GMT
Wait, what? Did you report that contact to the police? No, because to me it was just some (expletive deleted) talking a load of old (expletive deleted). The police have enough on their overworked underpaid plates already. You should consider reporting it anyway because if said person tries to get someone else to burgle the place, then there will be a record.
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Post by lousingh on Sept 29, 2023 17:03:04 GMT
I seems most Commonwealth countries had television stations mostly funded by a licence fee, so I guess not many showed adverts. CBC in Canada has ads - though I'm not sure if they ran them during children's programming back then. They did in the 1970s, but don't do it now. CBC omitted commercials during their national news broadcast and for educational children's programs like "Sesame Street."
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Post by lousingh on Sept 3, 2023 22:26:02 GMT
I am very interested in seeing what gets done.
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Post by lousingh on Aug 17, 2023 18:57:38 GMT
Serious question for those who were old enough to remember: when did it become apparent that Doctor Who had changed from just another show to an elevated status? Given the limitations and the perception of the series at the time, could anyone have justified taking up space saving every episode of what I imagine most adults viewed as a cheapo, melodramatic kids show? The only hint might have been the success of Star Trek after its cancellation because of the moon landing followed by its revival with the cartoons.
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Post by lousingh on Aug 11, 2023 12:26:02 GMT
How hard would it be to take a re-enactment like what was done with "Mission to the Unknown" and used the telesnaps and other production pictures to animate the original actors, and then using the AI to do a full reconstruction? I just wonder how the end credits should be handled in that case. For a quality and useable result - hard. Or let's say, much harder than many here think. That makes sense. The integration of the 3D renderings with the live action looks very arduous with the current state of the art.
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Post by lousingh on Aug 10, 2023 12:44:05 GMT
How hard would it be to take a re-enactment like what was done with "Mission to the Unknown" and used the telesnaps and other production pictures to animate the original actors, and then using the AI to do a full reconstruction? I just wonder how the end credits should be handled in that case.
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Post by lousingh on Jul 30, 2023 14:20:50 GMT
Has anyone thought of merging telesnaps with AI and deep fakes? The telesnaps and the sound would give an approximation of what the action would look like, which the actors would do, and then the AI uses that as a template to remake the episode.
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Post by lousingh on Jul 20, 2023 16:46:20 GMT
Actually, I think it is relevant in this sense: are the actors paid for the recons if BBC sells them? How about the animated missing episodes? It is tangential to the main point of the board, but I am interested and am glad it was asked here.
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Post by lousingh on Jun 30, 2023 2:13:10 GMT
Are the scripts online? I have always been curious about them.
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Post by lousingh on Jun 10, 2023 20:37:51 GMT
True, we've no evidence to say he's a liar - but we've also had no evidence to confirm he's telling the truth. I think we're all just sitting on the fence here. and I guess that's better than having no fence at all, at the end of the day. The behaviour ascribed to the purported collectors by Phil and Paul is entirely consistent with that of myself and my fellow collectors. Given the credibility that they have accumulated over the years and my knowledge of how collectors who own something unique behave, I expect they are giving us an incomplete truth because any more information would jeopardise the probability of their return. I have posted in other threads why I believe their story.
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Post by lousingh on Jun 10, 2023 20:22:24 GMT
For goodness’ sakes! So my thread gets locked and someone creates another. There are no missing episodes out there, certainly none we the fans/ public will be given back. Move on and hope for animations or something instead. Morris is a liar There is no need to slander Phil Morris. He has given an immense amount of time and money to recovering missing episodes. On that information alone, he deserves far better regard than you are giving him. As a collector myself (Beatles memorabilia), I understand the mentality of people who may have missing episodes. The behaviour that Phil Morris and Paul Vanezis ascribe to the purported holders of missing episodes is entirely consistent with the behaviour of myself and my fellow collectors, to say nothing of known behaviour of collectors in the art world. If I were you, I would give Phil and Paul a great benefit of the doubt because they have earnt it.
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Post by lousingh on Jun 10, 2023 2:34:46 GMT
Sorry to bump this, but if they do find the missing NTSC tapes for the Pertwee episodes and they turn out to be of higher quality than the colorised 16mm prints, could the BBC recover them to use in home media and for tv broadcasting? Assuming that I am correct about the source of the virtually pristine copy of "Terror of the Autons", then the answer is, "yes."
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