It's strange for formerly lost media to get a whole news story about it. This should, but still strange.
Hope more are found sooner than another 13 years from now.
Hope more are found sooner than another 13 years from now.
Lost Doctor Who episodes are one of them. Dad's Army also has lost black and white episodes (the colour ones have been repeated ad nauseam all my lifetime).
I can think of a few others. Scotch on the Rocks was a political hit piece written by Douglas Hurd showing an armed Scottish uprising along the lines of Northern Ireland. It was supposed to frighten people away from Scottish nationalism, but ended up causing copycat incidents. It vanished shortly after being broadcast probably because of its unintended effects.
The ultimate would be some of the pre-WW2 television broadcasts. Most of these were broadcast in the London area and practically nowhere else. Almost no one had recording equipment back then and they were often broadcast live.
There were some great period dramas at the time, if a little set bound (like I, Claudius)
Only in my adult life did I read the stories, finding large chunks of the dialog in the TV show being word for word taken from the stories. And when not word for word, the tone and feel of the scenes so well portrayed on screen.
There is a Soviet version of Sherlock Holmes which is surprisingly good starring Vasily Livanov. The locations sometimes don't quite look like England etc, but I really enjoyed it.
There are subtitled versions available online. Here is a short clip (with Sarabande over it)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Flnlb5ITNQ
I am a great fan of Brett's version, which I think is the best ever made. But I think the Soviet version is fantastic, considering it was made behind the Iron Curtain. There have, of course, been some awful Sherlock Holmes films but that's another matter.
Yeah, I grew up watching that on PBS Mystery! and love it. I rewatched some of it as an adult and it holds up very well.
I also really liked David Suchet's Poirot. I still have yet to watch the last few seasons though.
However, I've never been much enamoured with the Miss Marple adaptations. Joan Hickson's is maybe the best (even though I prefer Geraldine McEwan as an actress) but I never took to it like Poirot.
You might like the nineties Jeeves and Wooster which stars Stephen Fry as Jeeves and Hugh Laurie (of House fame) as Bertie Wooster. It is formulaic but fun. I think it's the best thing Stephen Fry ever did.
The Baader-Meinhof series is good. I enjoyed the film they made about them some years ago. I was impressed by how nuanced it was, i.e. showing all the various angles.
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1. The Davison-era audio commentaries are a hoot. You can tell that he, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton and Matthew Waterhouse are delighted to be back together again (and Fielding always seems like she’s shone up with a bottle and a half of wine, having drunk that first half).
However, I do not think the BBC has provided a decent service to Scotland over the years at all. We tend to be represented in certain clichés, if we are represented at all. Another clip from the same era is basically about a Scottish drunk who cycles over the Lairig Ghru and back, and has a patronising posh voiceover the top.
The "Phonovision" recordings made by Baird (which were unplayable at the time) have been recovered:
There was probably a renaissance period when conversion equipment was being actively developed and available, but that time is probably gone. For example I think a good film scanner would be the Nikon Super Coolscan 8000 ED, but current state of the art falls far short. For film, vcr tapes and more we should be doing so much better.
I have old family super-8 films that are kind of convertible, but not the magnetic sound strip.
It sounds more like it was unavailable to the average person than lost.
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