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- Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:28 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: What program is this from...? Stephen Fry 2007...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 624
Re: What program is this from...? Stephen Fry 2007...
I don't know for certain, but could it be from The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive documentary that he did? A revised version was shown in 2007. Later the same year he also did the documentary series HIV and Me and there was the one off Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out . Yes and also a Mark Lawson inter...
- Tue Oct 27, 2020 9:11 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: What program is this from...? Stephen Fry 2007...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 624
What program is this from...? Stephen Fry 2007...
There were some clips on the BBC website, but what program did they come from...? Anyone? https://i.ytimg.com/vi/k5UxdTzdhyA/hqdefault.jpg I guess this is now archive television rather than current programs! LATER EDIT: So to elaborate, this is part of the Fry at 50 weekend on BBC4; only the clips l...
- Sun Oct 25, 2020 6:59 pm
- Forum: Radio and Spoken Word
- Topic: The Frost Tapes
- Replies: 2
- Views: 558
Re: The Frost Tapes
Slightly off topic, but I wouldn't mind seeing this tape...
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 9:47 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Name this tune? Some kind of library track?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1888
Re: Name this tune? Some kind of library track?
So it is!
Well, it was used later than 1968 of course. I meant it couldn't be younger.
Well, it was used later than 1968 of course. I meant it couldn't be younger.
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 9:08 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Name this tune? Some kind of library track?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1888
Name this tune? Some kind of library track?
If anyone could identify this theme tune, which was ultimately not even used, I'd be really grateful! It can't be later than 1968, that's all I know.
Posting a link to just a short fragment, that should probably be safe I hope?
YOUTUBE LINKS NOT ALLOWED UNLESS POSTED BY COPYRIGHT OWNER
Posting a link to just a short fragment, that should probably be safe I hope?
YOUTUBE LINKS NOT ALLOWED UNLESS POSTED BY COPYRIGHT OWNER
- Tue Sep 29, 2020 10:45 am
- Forum: Tech Ops
- Topic: Ampex Tape Care - and it cares for you too!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 572
- Tue Sep 29, 2020 10:40 am
- Forum: Radio and Spoken Word
- Topic: 1960s (?) Science Fiction Serial
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1425
Re: 1960s (?) Science Fiction Serial
Europans at the door? Sounds like it's going to be No Deal then! ;)
- Fri Sep 25, 2020 5:58 pm
- Forum: Radio and Spoken Word
- Topic: 1960s (?) Science Fiction Serial
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1425
Re: 1960s (?) Science Fiction Serial
Not H.G. Wells related perhaps?
- Thu Sep 10, 2020 1:54 pm
- Forum: Ashes to Ashes
- Topic: Diana Rigg (1938-2020)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1042
- Sat Aug 29, 2020 8:02 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: the original Kitten Kong
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1040
Re: the original Kitten Kong
That too. A kid in 1982 wouldn't have made allowances for the possibility that it could be missing.
But my question is still open. Andrew P perhaps?
But my question is still open. Andrew P perhaps?
- Tue Aug 25, 2020 1:20 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Top of the Pops "recording over old film" article in the Daily Mail
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1693
Re: Top of the Pops "recording over old film" article in the Daily Mail
It's called double exposure!
- Sun Aug 23, 2020 9:23 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: the original Kitten Kong
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1040
the original Kitten Kong
Am I correct in saying that there is no home recorded audio of the lost episode either?
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 6:56 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Epic that never was - in colour (??)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1199
Re: Epic that never was - in colour (??)
Never seen it in colour and as a very good doc it would have been rerun on BBC2 and probably on every year in the colour era if it had been. A possibility may be that it was shot on colour negative and just issued with B/W prints for BBC economy? Someone checked this and it seems that the negative ...
- Sat Jul 18, 2020 8:53 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Epic that never was - in colour (??)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1199
Epic that never was - in colour (??)
Over on another board, someone recently claimed to have seen "The epic that never was" (1965) in colour (except for the archive footage) in a shorter cut in the USA. Any chance it's true? I'm not immediately convinced it isn't just a mistake, but I suppose it could have been shot on colour film for ...
- Thu Jul 16, 2020 12:36 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: live drama: edited after transmission or not?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4270
Re: live drama: edited after transmission or not?
There is an article online, that I can't put my finger on right now... It’s this one... http://www.britishtelevisiondrama.org.uk/?p=7284 In my memory it was far more definite in its conclusions, but yes that's it. I see now that it ends more on a note of " sometimes it was done, we can't assume we'...
- Thu Jul 16, 2020 12:34 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: live drama: edited after transmission or not?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4270
Re: live drama: edited after transmission or not?
The entire 1956 season of Billy Bunter is telerecorded too - I couldn't guess why. For repeats - as Simon’s listing up thread shows, the number of productions performed twice in the same week dropped dramatically after 1954. Now, without going looking, that’s either because same-week repeats weren’...
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 10:21 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: live drama: edited after transmission or not?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4270
Re: live drama: edited after transmission or not?
OK, but why the earliest were made is a slightly different topic. (The entire 1956 season of Billy Bunter is telerecorded too - I couldn't guess why.) Hm, does anyone know, was telerecording a performance more expensive than re-staging? I hope this don't break the rules as it's Network's own promo, ...
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 7:47 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: live drama: edited after transmission or not?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4270
Re: live drama: edited after transmission or not?
At a guess, I would say yes. What numbers, I haven't a clue, but video would offer a useful tool for repeats where the tape could be re-used keeping expenses to a minimum. Film, once struck, is relatively permanent, so unless there was a specific will to keep it for sales or continued re-use, it wo...
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 7:00 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: live drama: edited after transmission or not?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4270
Re: live drama: edited after transmission or not?
Were there many shows done live and taped?
I would have associated this more with telerecording, although that is just an assumption.
I would have associated this more with telerecording, although that is just an assumption.
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 12:09 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: live drama: edited after transmission or not?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4270
Re: live drama: edited after transmission or not?
But by that time, the Avengers were no longer performed live, surely? So that's another topic, strictly speaking, of mistakes that went uncorrected. Many live recordings having mistakes - true, but that could also be a reason why they'd start to try and prevent that from happening. (In a French exam...
- Tue Jul 14, 2020 12:55 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: live drama: edited after transmission or not?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4270
live drama: edited after transmission or not?
There is an article online, that I can't put my finger on right now (a sister site of https://screenplaystv.wordpress.com or one of their contributors I thought), that argues that live recorded drama was often edited a bit afterwards. Most obvious example would be a second take on any scenes that we...
- Sun Jul 05, 2020 10:07 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Benny Hill recovery
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5130
- Wed Jun 24, 2020 8:05 pm
- Forum: Radio and Spoken Word
- Topic: Was there racism in Hancock's Half Hour?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3814
Re: Was there racism in Hancock's Half Hour?
I caught a bit of Budgie the other night. I didn't see it all but got the gist the Charlie Endell had lumbered him with some illegal Pakistani immigrants. I thought yes well that would have just been how it was in 1971 with the then illegals pouring in...However there was one line Budgie said near ...
- Sat Jun 20, 2020 12:51 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Benny Hill recovery
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5130
Re: Benny Hill recovery
The problem with recovering missing *radio* is that while *we* are interested in the classic DJs and their patter and gags, most people recording 40, 50, 55, years ago only wanted the music. Also a lot of tapes will have been recorded over or thrown out. Also when an elderly person has died, their ...
- Fri Jun 19, 2020 12:15 pm
- Forum: Ashes to Ashes
- Topic: Ian Holm (1931-2020)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 819
Ian Holm (1931-2020)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/j ... bo-baggins
And apart from the LotR radio drama, may I also mention his impressive performance in The Browning Version?
And apart from the LotR radio drama, may I also mention his impressive performance in The Browning Version?
- Fri Jun 19, 2020 11:29 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Benny Hill recovery
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5130
Re: Benny Hill recovery
I wonder if anyone with non-Dr Who missing material is worried about a flurry of "You Don't have any Dr Who?", "If you have that you MUST have some" pestering from the psychotic part of fandom. As i said, there is an excellent reason why the Australian man or woman who filmed those 8mm DW cine-clip...
- Thu Jun 18, 2020 8:14 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Benny Hill recovery
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5130
Re: Benny Hill recovery
Yes; but that is strictly speaking a different subject.paul.austin wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 3:30 amThere are missing Doctor Who episodes in private hands but, as illustrated by the cine-clips person choosing to be nameless, they wisely don't want the attention of the psychotic part of DW fandom
- Tue Jun 16, 2020 9:16 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Benny Hill recovery
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5130
Re: Benny Hill recovery
Okay, but it was a general comparison; I didn't mean that that was fully identical to returning missing programs to the BBC.Brock wrote: ↑Tue Jun 16, 2020 4:43 pmSpeak for yourself. I won't join Facebook on principle.Spiny Norman wrote: ↑Tue Jun 16, 2020 1:44 pmThat's why most of us are still on faecesbook even though we all know the stuff they've done, or are doing even.
- Tue Jun 16, 2020 1:44 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Benny Hill recovery
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5130
Re: Benny Hill recovery
Right so it's "only" one recovery then. Also some have been treated badly in the past (no thanks and courier fees not reimbursed), or know others who have, so won't return on principle. Yeah, but they're punishing others. And people who on principle refuse to deal with the BBC, for reasons of their...
- Mon Jun 15, 2020 12:03 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Benny Hill recovery
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5130
Re: Benny Hill recovery
Right so it's "only" one recovery then. Also some have been treated badly in the past (no thanks and courier fees not reimbursed), or know others who have, so won't return on principle. Yeah, but they're punishing others. And people who on principle refuse to deal with the BBC, for reasons of their ...