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Post by simonashby on Oct 19, 2015 7:51:27 GMT
Hi, I've been enjoying reading the forum for a couple of years or so, though this is my first post. Re The UWM DVD : I was surprised by the info in the latest DWMagazine( issue 492, page 87 ) where John Kelly says that for his recons of eps 1 & 4, he was instructed by BBC Worldwide to not use the program's opening title sequences or end captions - This seems puzzling... Or could it be that they will simply add these on in-house afterwards? The RT have been faithfully recreating credits for well over a decade. Sometimes it's just easier to give the job to someone that's done it, has the resources and the trained eye to make them look authentic. Producing professional content involves lots of different people in specific roles, doing their specific jobs. Not like producing a home-made recon for Youtube or whatever.
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Post by simonashby on Oct 14, 2015 12:58:07 GMT
Wheel and Snowmen seem to be decent bets. Of all the missing series, Season 5 has made quite a comeback since 1987! Best of all by far, in fact. ...he's just announced a couple of weeks ago that he knows Web 3 is in private hands but he can't track down the collector. He didn't. He thinks that may be the case. I don't mean to pick on you specifically, as it is an innocent mistake, but this gradual Chinese whispers effect is how rumours start.
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Post by simonashby on Oct 8, 2015 22:56:56 GMT
No need for Phil to continue his search for the real thing, now that we have this! Whoa, hang on there!
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Post by simonashby on Oct 5, 2015 9:04:44 GMT
How does it depend on that? PM has nothing to do with that point. It is a possibility because there are many unknown factors at this point. We do not know the results of Phil's search and the expenses he has incurred up to this point. We also don't know the total extent of how successful the BBC's own search was to recover it's programs in the 80's. The BBC can't make a profit off another networks programming even if they find them. If Phil's expenses can be measured to what would have been spent back then, it is possible that the BBC would have lost money in the 80s if they sent people to search only the stations that bought their programs. If the search would have only been those locations, they wouldn't have found the films because Phil has said that material is not always where it should or is expected to be. Phil's search seems much more thorough than what the BBC attempted. If he has already found all the BBC programming that is out there, then chances are that BBC might have recovered much less on their own if they followed another plan. Sales might not be enough to cover all the expenses if the BBC attempted a much larger search at that time, especially of they would have had limited results. I see your point, however I feel there may be too many unknowns to ever come to a definitive answer.
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Post by simonashby on Oct 5, 2015 7:29:43 GMT
I have always said that if in the 80s, the BBC invested one years salary going to the various stations, it would have paid for itself in saleable shows. That is a possibility. It depends on how much more Phil Morris comes up with. How does it depend on that? PM has nothing to do with that point.
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Post by simonashby on Oct 1, 2015 0:50:32 GMT
I'm doubtful about hoarders, alhough there may be. Many of the episodes that have been recovered have come from people who didn't know that they had something important. I don't think that logic works - The very nature of the hoarders concept is that they horde it!
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Post by simonashby on Sept 28, 2015 0:03:30 GMT
So Phil is backtracking from his story that it wasn't there in the first place. Wonder what the explanation is for misleading people in the first place? To temper speculation during a particularly sensitive time? Many fans feel they are owed something (wrongly so), some take that to near on obsessive lenghts. People ringing stations, sending emails etc... - Some people did that anyway! Imagine the potential witch hunt! Not exactly what you need.
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Post by simonashby on Apr 21, 2015 11:18:11 GMT
But CGI of the Avatar/LOTR quality is going to cost many, many times more than the current animation. Heck, CGI of an average quality is going to be comparable to animation - and they can't even justify the cost of that. I can't see how that computes?
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Post by simonashby on Apr 2, 2015 17:56:37 GMT
I like the optimistic take on this, but I'm not sure it's really an explanation as to why they survived. 1+1 might make 2, but with missing episodes we may as well be looking for the answer to 2384625.7372...
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Post by simonashby on Jan 15, 2015 16:44:02 GMT
As someone who knows of people with superior copies of The Ambassadors of Death, Terror of the Autons, and The Mind of Evil than the BBC had before the chromadots (in particular, Terror of the Autons is essentially flawless and The Mind of Evil is pretty clean). Unless the have the original Quad tapes (which they don't), how can they have superior copies to the BBC? Do explain.
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Post by simonashby on Oct 10, 2014 22:47:22 GMT
Last year there was a rumour that it has been found and being ristored. Now there is no sign off it is this serial lost forever ?? I don't get it. If something had really happened and any of us could answer it you'd have heard about it by now anyway. Nothing new here, move along and worry about something else.
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Post by simonashby on Sept 7, 2014 12:34:48 GMT
That one exists.
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Post by simonashby on Aug 12, 2014 9:09:50 GMT
This is the problem I have though... We all know that every single 60's Doctor Who VT was wiped, gone forever, never to be seen again, and that is a fact, so why can't we just accept that?! Why does everyone seen to hold the impression that we should "restore" them as close to their original appearance. I don't like things pretending to be something they're not, why can't we just see them as they survive (no digital credits, no stupid VidFire), accept this is their archival state and move on. Digitally cleaning up dirt and scratches, no problem! But everything else, no! (Personal opinion, I am aware there will be lots who disagree with me) Because most people are either unaware of the situation or aren't nearly as intrigued by it as we are. Therefore it's best to present the show in the most acceptable way for a modern audience, whilst being 'true' to the original.
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Post by simonashby on Aug 12, 2014 1:43:16 GMT
No biggie really. The Telerecording process added most of the wobble we see in unrestored credits, so that's not really 'authentic' to the untrained eye. I think there is room to make the replacements a little more authentic, but I'd rather have straight cut stability rather than overt wobbliness!
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Post by simonashby on Aug 4, 2014 9:46:42 GMT
The Africa search must surely be over now ! And as the last ones were found in 2011, Yeah i know Then there is the middle east search !... And here's the problem right here. Says who? The guy making the assumptions.
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