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Post by simonashby on Jan 17, 2018 21:40:47 GMT
Hard to figure that one out. If they had it under the scanner,then one would think they scanned the whole film. I guess the process isn't as quick as you might imagine. I also expect that they would want to see how the restoration on this section pans out before releasing money for the rest of it. Budgets are squeezed these days.
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Post by simonashby on May 9, 2017 17:20:23 GMT
They wouldn't have been pixellated... that's a digital artefact. So if you're seeing pixellation then you may be mistaking grain, or indeed a side effect of modern processing.
The existing colour tapes of Inferno are fairly crude conversions form 625 lines to 525 lines made back in the 1970s. That's just the way it was back then, and that's why they look pretty ropey. The monochrome film prints are of higher quality, but are still a generation down (the drop is quality would vary from recording to recording) from the original 625 line tapes.
You're also watching it on a NTSC DVD which has a lower resolution than the PAL ones. I can't comment on those as I haven't seen them, but it will look Inferior to region 2 DVDs.
So in short: No, the Pertwee stories always started out looking pretty crisp. Just that for many episodes, the original masters no longer exist. The copies we have today vary in quality for 2 main reasons: The technology to create copies wasn't all that sophisticated, and archiving policies (or lack thereof) were pretty hit and miss.
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Post by simonashby on Mar 20, 2017 0:20:49 GMT
I still insist it's a daft idea. On the sheer numbers factor in this country, is there is a Who fan living on every street? I doubt that (and definitely not in Singapore). But what would happen if everyone door knocked their street in the name of MEs? One episode recovered from that? Probably not. But let's say it did yield one film can; would it be worth all that door knocking? I think so. ...and this explains my continued confusion. Another idea related to door knocking is that there are always leaflets being put through peoples doors asking for any unwanted bric-a-brac. This shows how the venture is possible on a wide scale, if these scrap merchants can pull it off. Leaflets could be distributed asking for any unwanted old films - cine films, reels of film and such. Never know what might turn up in response. Certainly moving to a more sensible suggestion, but... scrap is plentiful, scrap is being created every day. What we're looking for isn't. Better than pestering people at their front doors in any case. (Yes, that's how many people will see it) What I am getting at is that the time to benefit ratio is obscenely rubbish. You are better spent looking for material though other means. As history has shown us, being more strategic and targeted about it will likely get you further.
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Post by simonashby on Mar 16, 2017 0:23:00 GMT
Of course door knocking is a daft idea. But if you recall, someone once asked about doing a boots on the ground search in Africa because the TV stations still have loads of British films over there. That individual was shot down for it being a daft idea (not those exact words). If he'd followed that 'forget about it' advice, I wouldn't be watching The Enemy of the World right now I wonder how many more Mr Watsons are still out there in the UK, unaware that the film can containing a 16mm print of Volcano (for e.g.) hanging idly in a plastic bag from a coat hook is in fact missing? How are those people to be reached? Local paper? Door knocking? What? Come the day those individuals pass on, surely their equally unaware relatives will just throw that film can out as worthless junk... This is confusing. You're now saying it's a daft idea, and then you seem to try and say it might not be with the Phil Morris comparison. You can't compare the two. You just can't. Phil Morris had contacts and intended to reach stations and suchlike based on information and records, building a clearer picture as he went along. It's infinitely more considered and accurate than knocking on doors. Knocking on doors is a non-starter just based on sheer numbers. You've answered your own question in a previous post: Newspapers (both print and online). It's worked before and is the only realistic way of reaching the masses, that is until the BBC do another One show feature or the like. Just because people thought that both these ideas were a bit outlandish at the time they were suggested doesn't make them equal.
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Post by simonashby on Mar 15, 2017 10:53:33 GMT
The point of this door-knocking thread was the query the matter of unidentified people out there who have ME episodes who don't know that they're missing, not persons who are aware of what they are holding in their houses. If there was an organised door-to-door campaign then I wouldn't even bother knocking on their doors; complete waste of time. It looks very much like a query about knocking door-to-door to me... and then again in Singapore etc... There's no harm in admitting it was a daft idea. If you had meant to ask about public awareness then you should just do that. The point in the first post is an entirely different one. Everything is else is going to be a distraction and make things go off on a tangent... just has it has...
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Post by simonashby on Mar 14, 2017 11:28:10 GMT
Actually, the O/P's proposal is perfectly reasonable. No it's not! I recollect, a few years back, a keen fan of the BBC's radio show The Clitheroe Kid led a drive to recover missing episodes from that series, on reel-to-reel or cassette. He found a lot of episodes! So his strategy can't be faulted. He wrote to practically every local newspaper in the UK, possibly by e-mail, a letter for inserting in the letters column, explaining that many episodes of the show that aired between 1958 and 1972 are missing from the BBC archives, and asking if any reader had any recordings taped off air during that period. I emphasise that he wrote to local newspapers, not to national ones. The sort of free papers that are now becoming less common, but still reach a surprisingly large proportion of the population. He seemed to ascribe his success rate to one fact especially: that although young people no longer read newspapers, he was trying to reach people old enough to remember the 1960s - precisely the sort of people who still do read the newspaper. And because he targeted mostly free papers, that gave him an even bigger readership. How can you even compare writing to local press to cold calling from door to door? This is a much more realistic and reasonable strategy. Actually, the O/P's proposal is perfectly reasonable. Just in case you didn't hear me the first time: No it's not!
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Post by simonashby on Mar 5, 2017 21:28:15 GMT
Delusional at best. Sorry.
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Post by simonashby on Mar 1, 2017 19:32:29 GMT
Someone once said that it is possible that the Blue Peter copy of Episode 4 (from which the regeneration sequence was trimmed) may have come from the only remaining copy at BBC Enterprises. Upon completion of the Blue Peter programme it may well be that the remains of the episode, now in pieces, was returned to the wrong branch of the BBC, who took one look and burnt it. I always thought the clip came off of the Quad VT and not a telerecording. Being from Enterprises it would have been film.
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Post by simonashby on Feb 5, 2017 21:39:08 GMT
Or alternatively they could use totally lifelike CGI that's bound to arrive before so long..... Mind you some of us will be in our dotage by then........ I honestly think a computer guessing the frames will come round sooner than that being cheap though. But there isn't enough information to make that happen. If you have 0 existent frames of a 25 minute programme, it's all guesswork. If you have tele snaps that number in the 10s, not even 100s, then it's still guesswork. A computer is only as good as the information that you feed it. This isn't filling a gap of a handful of frames, or even a few dozen. This is hundreds and possibly thousands of missing frames between what currently exists. It will never happen that way. On the other hand, it may aid a CGI reconstruction. In the future GCI will certainly be able to create a convincing but inaccurate (with respect to the original footage) programme.
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Post by simonashby on Jan 3, 2017 21:30:56 GMT
Everything that exists. I mean, surely there's only one answer to this question!
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Post by simonashby on Oct 28, 2016 9:14:32 GMT
Well this is all a bit daft.
If people want to prioritise finding Fraggle Rock episodes, let them do so. It's not like Doctor Who hasn't been a priority for many over the years. It's not like people determined to find Doctor Who will suddenly forget about it if they come across a lead for another series. The search isn't binary in terms of what is being sought. I could go on...
I don't wish to be rude but I think it's just a lot of thinking and getting worked up for nothing, over nothing.
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Post by simonashby on Sept 10, 2016 15:35:04 GMT
Mmm, I seem to remember similar comments about my thread a few years ago asking about the story of Yeti episodes being shown in a Cinema in Nigeria. Oh & don't forget that Web and Enemy were both found at a relay station where they had no real business to be. You just never know and there is always a slim chance that you could be bang on the money. Let's hope you are and we find out soon! That makes no sense. What is true is that anything could have happened. The theory here is pretty specific. People create elaborate theories to comfort themselves, hence what I said.
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Post by simonashby on Sept 9, 2016 20:33:00 GMT
Straws. Grasping.
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Post by simonashby on Sept 4, 2016 20:38:05 GMT
Knowing how I work, I'd want to keep quiet about any partial finds until I knew all realistic avenues were chased up. So I'm pretty understanding with what Phil is doing. I expect we'll hear about any damaged prints, and eventually see any clips/remnants or frames in time - or even just being told of them in the story leading up to finding an intact copy! the serial which has the most chance of being recovered (according to number of prints struck) is Marco Polo This is often said. However in reality it's a meaningless yardstick.
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Post by simonashby on Oct 19, 2015 9:05:58 GMT
John Kelly has done work for the Restoration Team before. . . . Okay then. But the point still stands. He was contracted to do a specific job, and someone else to add credits later.
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