On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 01:39:00PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, you wrote:
>
> > As a Dr. Who fan, and member of the Paul McGann Estrogen Brigade (long
> > story if you don't know it already...), I have been made *very* aware
> > of Blackstar. Many people I know are rabid Blackstar advocates, as
> > it's one of the few places they can get their weird, obscure videos
> > that Paul McGann appeared in that no one ever heard of... :-)
>
> cool .. until a few months ago I worked at the BBC with Paul Vanezis, the
> main advocate of the Dr Who restoration stuff, and assisted on a various
> bits of the telecine and quad work. Its suprising how much of the
Ok, A) Cool, and B) how do I get your job? :-)
> original studio recordings exist, and much of the material on the master
> tapes was reconstructed by re-editing from the original recordings. All
> the location stuff was on film and that too existed (although quite a
> bit got junked a few years ago. ) and our modern telecine was used to
> provide much sharper results than the orignal stuff. ISTR we even did a
> bit of dolby surround on one or two episodes just for a bit of fun.
And we thank you for it!
> I was chatting with him only the other day about how they persuaded
> whats-his-face who was the Brigadier to do a load of voice over work for
> some of the new releases ... apparrently he still loks much the same even
> though MUCH older.
Yeah, Nick Courtney has done some of that stuff, as well as a number
of other who related projects and conventions. he seem to enjoy it -
good for him.
P.S. 8uffy. (making sure we're still on-topic... :-)
dha
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