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Posted by Steve on 04/16/06 03:50
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:57:43 -0400, Derek Janssen
<ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> wrote:
>Invid Fan wrote:
>>
>>>All thress disks contians various extras with
>>>the "Edge" disk containing most of them (since it has the shortest
>>>story on it, it had the most room) including the half-hour abridged
>>>reconstruction of the lost 4th story arc "Marco Polo" (the
>>>reconstruction takes surviving audio of the story that was preserved by
>>>fans in the 1960s hooking up tape recorders to their TV sets at time of
>>>first broadcast along with photographic stills called "telesnaps" taken
>>>by John Crua as a service for the BBC so that directors and actors
>>>could have a record of thier work. basically it's a souped up slide
>>>show with a soundtrack that gives the viewer a taste of what that lost
>>>story was like).
>>
>> The audio for all the lost Doctor Who episodes exist, and have been
>> released in various formats (you can get them for $13 on iTunes, for
>> example). I'd love to have someone re-create the episodes in B&W cell
>> animation using the original soundtrack :)
The audio exists because of fans' home recordings, as described
above. Some of the earliest ones, such as Marco Polo, were done with
a microphone sitting in the same room as the TV, and it SOUNDS just
like a miked TV set! Later recordings were done with a direct
electrical connection in many cases, or at least with a better mic
close to the TV speaker. I actually recorded some of the earliest
Doctor Who episodes myself using a mic sitting on top of the speaker
of our Ferguson set. No, I didn't save the recordings, if I had I
believe it would have been an improvement over the existing audio
quality of Marco Polo. I saw Marco Polo three times, first in Britain
then successively in Halifax, then in Sarnia, Canada. It's hard to
believe such a wonderful story is gone..
>
>I'd rather have them in color:
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/webcasts/shada/
Who cares about Shada?! On the other hand Loose Cannon has done a
marvelous reconstruction of Marco Polo in full colour from the wealth
of on-stage stills done during that series.
http://www.recons.com/recons/lc17.htm
>
>Derek Janssen (more of a Patrick Troughton fan, m'self)
Oh to find more Troughton!
... Steve ..
>ejanss@comcast.net
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