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toxicspurge
Legendary Time Traveller
USA
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 Posted - 16 Jan 2008 : 11:32:37
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Hey Russ,
I'm curious. In your opinion, which LC Recons are most in need of updating?
-The Savages doesn't count since an update is in progress.
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Newboy
Seasoned Time Traveller
United Kingdom
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Posted - 16 Jan 2008 : 19:49:52
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Russ
Administrator
United Kingdom
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Posted - 16 Jan 2008 : 19:50:01
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| Well just start at the beginning and work your way forward really! I think Space Pirates and Myth Makers were the most needy as such advances had been made in non telesnap stories since those very early ones but the next non telesnap stories were Galaxy 4 and Celestial Toymaker which, whilst a little dated, were a big step up. The telesnap stories as time has gone on better quality telesnaps and better ways of tranferring between formats mean they have generally improved gradually |
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tygerbug
Time Traveller
USA
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Another Ian
Seasoned Time Traveller
United Kingdom
649 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jan 2008 : 20:19:11
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| What's happened to the LC forum? |
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toxicspurge
Legendary Time Traveller
USA
7773 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jan 2008 : 21:04:47
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| I admit I'd LOVE to see Web and Evil. |
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Russ
Administrator
United Kingdom
2505 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jan 2008 : 22:10:37
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Originally posted by Another Ian
What's happened to the LC forum?
Some sort of server problem, bit too technical for me! |
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Russ
Administrator
United Kingdom
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Posted - 16 Jan 2008 : 22:18:15
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Originally posted by tygerbug
Oh, finish the ones you ain't done yet first. I'm glad to see that Evil of the Daleks is in the batch. I want Web of Fear ....
The thing to remember is there was more than Loose Cannon out there! Whilst Web and Wheel are certainly high on the list there are JV versions of both stories which are probably better than the early LC recons as Rick mastered these in NTSC so the versions kicking about are conversions whereas the JV Wheel and Web were mastered in PAL (I beleive in SVHS) something that didn't happen for Loose Cannon till Toymaker and Power.
Also remakes tend to be a lot quicker than first attempts as we usually have the basics in place |
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tygerbug
Time Traveller
USA
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Posted - 17 Jan 2008 : 00:41:09
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I watch a ton of Elephe recons myself and have also seen efforts on Youtube by Tricolour and TheHappinessPatrol.
Still, it'd be nice for Loose Cannon to do the ones they haven't - which include some of the best stories Who ever did! |
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bingo99
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darnall42
Newbie
United Kingdom
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Posted - 29 Feb 2008 : 20:20:36
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| well the smugglers is definetly in need of tarting up as there is only a very poor loose cannon version and no joint venture,coi or elaphe version |
its a reeves and mortimer quality product |
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toxicspurge
Legendary Time Traveller
USA
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Posted - 29 Feb 2008 : 21:34:54
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| "Tarting Up"! LMAO! |
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Russ
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 03 Mar 2008 : 19:17:16
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Originally posted by darnall42
well the smugglers is definetly in need of tarting up as there is only a very poor loose cannon version and no joint venture,coi or elaphe version
There is also a Richard Devlyn solo version floating about but that looks extremely dated now |
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Pip
Seasoned Time Traveller
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Posted - 03 Mar 2008 : 20:30:31
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Originally posted by Russ
There is also a Richard Devlyn solo version floating about but that looks extremely dated now
I've got a copy of that one sitting on a shelf back in England - IIRC it's the only Smugglers recon that has the correct Episode 1 captions! 
Out of interest, does anyone have a copy of the first few tele-snaps for Episode 1, which show the credits in black over the opening credits (representing the TARDIS in flight after it left London), instead of the usual captions in white over the action? |
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toxicspurge
Legendary Time Traveller
USA
7773 Posts |
Posted - 03 Mar 2008 : 21:03:25
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dhandley
Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04 Mar 2008 : 11:54:44
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Originally posted by Pip
Out of interest, does anyone have a copy of the first few tele-snaps for Episode 1, which show the credits in black over the opening credits (representing the TARDIS in flight after it left London), instead of the usual captions in white over the action?
Yes ;-)
On closer inspection though, the 'cloud' patterns on the picture are not from the opening title sequence footage, but were most likely taken from the test footage shot for the opening titles. Its also my opinion that these cloud effects were shown on the TARDIS scanner and that the titles were superimposed over a close up of the scanner screen. A few minutes into the episode there is a similar shot of the time vortex clouds shown on the scanner which mixes to a shot of the cave mouth as the TARDIS lands.
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Pip
Seasoned Time Traveller
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Posted - 04 Mar 2008 : 12:37:37
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Originally posted by dhandley
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Originally posted by Pip
Out of interest, does anyone have a copy of the first few tele-snaps for Episode 1, which show the credits in black over the opening credits (representing the TARDIS in flight after it left London), instead of the usual captions in white over the action?
Yes ;-)
On closer inspection though, the 'cloud' patterns on the picture are not from the opening title sequence footage, but were most likely taken from the test footage shot for the opening titles. Its also my opinion that these cloud effects were shown on the TARDIS scanner and that the titles were superimposed over a close up of the scanner screen. A few minutes into the episode there is a similar shot of the time vortex clouds shown on the scanner which mixes to a shot of the cave mouth as the TARDIS lands.
Very interesting! :) It's a shame the BBC uploaded a lot of tele-snaps with 'normal' episode captions, but in the case of a unique one like this they didn't bother... |
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