FILM RESTORATION THREAD - rumours and confirmation

[Rob4]

Interesting interview with Scott MacQueen featuring the Doctor X restoration.

The Video Attic : Video Attic Exclusive on Doctor X (1932) Interview with Head of Restoration Scott MacQueen & New Photos

it ends with this snippet of info which will probably result in a future release meaning I will be able to dispense with my Criterion DVD

"SM: We are currently working with The Film Foundation on William Deiterle’s All That Money Can Buy (1941)"

(aka The Devil and Daniel Webster)

[Rob4]

https://filmfestival.tcm.com/program...ers-from-mars/

INVADERS FROM MARS (1953)
7:15 PM - 8:45 PM | SATURDAY, APRIL 23
CHINESE MULTIPLEX HOUSE 6

William Cameron Menzies had already distinguished himself as an Oscar-winning designer and the director of H.G. Wells’s visionary Things to Come (1936) when he helped turn this low-budget science-fiction movie into a cult favorite. His unique design style, marked by distorted sets and low-angle shots, sets this film apart from other 1950s fright fests. Rushed into theaters before producer George Pal’s The War of the Worlds (1953), Invaders from Mars was the first alien invasion film shot in color. Its tale of a child (Jimmy Hunt) who witnesses a flying saucer land near his home and then notices odd behavior from his parents and neighbors inspired countless other films, from Don Siegel’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)—another picture in which people become convinced their loved ones have been replaced by soulless lookalikes—to Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm (1979) and Brad Bird’s The Iron Giant (1999), whose directors saw Invaders from Mars as children. Prepare to be haunted by this picture’s nightmarish, child’s-eye view of an alien invasion, in this U.S. premiere of a new restoration. (d. William Cameron Menzies, 78m, Digital)

We'll have to wait and see what the quality is like for this or if it gets a BR release?

[Rob4]

An article about the Invaders from Mars restoration

https://hollywood-elsewhere.com/rest...about-to-land/

A BR and UHD is promised but no word on who will be releasing it.

[Susan Foreman]

Radio rather than television

Lost Hancock’s Half Hour episode found after 67 years / Chortle

"An episode of Hancock’s Half Hour that has been lost for 67 years is to get an airing on Radio 4.

First broadcast in 1955 and never repeated, it is the only one to feature Peter Sellers, who was standing in for Hancock’s regular collaborator Kenneth Williams

A recording was discovered by fan Richard Harrison on a domestic reel-to-reel audio tape, and it has now been restored, ready to air on Radio 4 at 6.30pm on October 18.

In the episode, called The Marriage Bureau, Hancock decides that he must get a job and find a wife. The penultimate episode in the first series of the radio show, it was previously recreated as one of Radio 4’s Missing Hancocks, with Kevin McNally impersonating the lad himself.

The Tony Hancock Appreciation Society wrote on Twitter: ‘We’re absolutely thrilled that a lost episode of Hancock’s Half Hour has been found, restored, & will be broadcast on Radio 4 on October 18

‘The Marriage Bureau was never repeated and has not been heard since 1955. Only episode to feature Peter Sellers.

‘Sellers plays the parts given in the scripts to Kenneth Williams who couldn’t make it that week. How did he play them? Tune in to find out! This is a brilliant find!’

A documentary has been made about finding the lost episode – as well as other recent discoveries including episodes of Desert Island Discs and a Ken Dodd show from 1957. Called Raiders Of The Lost Archive, it will air on Radio 4 at 11.30am on Thursday October 13."

[Susan Foreman]

More radio instead of television...

Lost Desert Island Discs: Collector finds more than 90 missing recordings / BBC News

"More than 90 lost recordings of BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs have been discovered by an audio collector from Lowestoft in Suffolk.

Bing Crosby, Dame Margot Fonteyn, Jimmy Stewart, David Hockney and Dirk Bogarde are among the big names who appear in the episodes found by Richard Harrison.

He described finding the missing recordings which date back to the 1960s and 1970s as "a great feeling".

Former Discs presenter Sue Lawley said: "Thank God for Mr Lowestoft"..."

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Radio rather than television

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

More radio instead of television...

What about film? Which is what this thread is about.

[Susan Foreman]

The Navy Lark's missing episode recovered in Radio Times Treasure Hunt / The Radio Times

"A classic piece of radio comedy long thought to be lost has been rediscovered as part of the Radio Times Treasure Hunt.

Until now, there was just one episode of BBC Radio sitcom The Navy Lark missing, and this has now been found – the tape was among a batch of unlabelled quarter-inch tape reels that the Radio Circle listened to over Christmas.

The missing episode in question is series 4, episode 18, 'The Cornish Exercise' – originally broadcast on 12th January, 1962. The quality of the recording is good enough that plans are afoot for Radio 4 Extra to re-broadcast the episode in the spring."

[Rob4]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

What about film? Which is what this thread is about.

Perhaps a new thread needs to be created for lost television and radio discoveries?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Rob4

Perhaps a new thread needs to be created for lost television and radio discoveries?

Whoever posts the next tv / radio info can start one then.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Rob4

Perhaps a new thread needs to be created for lost television and radio discoveries?

Um... Rob - this is *your thread*, and *you* started it, but in the first post you said:

Originally Posted by Rob4

i don't know about anyone else but i'm a sucker for articles on film restoration or finds of lost film/TV.

Admittedly I post about found radio programmes, but television shows were included in the original remit!!