Restoring Doctor Who 

Gives me a feeling of satisfaction

caseyb889 didn't get chills, but it was awesome to see the episode play, knowing it was lost for a long time, and that that moment was the moment that the episode got watched for the first again before it got lost. I really hope the other lost episodes will be found too sometime. But sadly it is possible that some will never be found again for whatever reason.

@@SpaceSloth707 They was more than just those 11 episodes. They were many Patrick and Hartnel stories on 16mm film in that Nigerian television studio. But all the rest had deteriorated over the decades. Film is organic and they were just useless. If they had gotten to them 15 years ago we could be seeing: THE HIGHLANDERS THE MACCRA TERROR THE POWER OF THE DALKES and even more.

5 years on from this comment, seeing this video for the first time, YES. I felt it.

Yeah

Josh221 Yes my thoughts too. What a shame that the full story of the recovery and the restoration work never got featured on the DVD release as well as surviving cast and crew content. More people involved with the serial's past away since too so there views and memories lost too now!

This is a special feature on the special edition DVD of Enemy of the World.

I like your avatar, what the smeg is it?!

"Yaaay!"

Old gelatinous film can explode if and when they age to a sweaty mass.

harrietamidala1691 Well of course they were, it's not as if they could do all that in the space of a month from discovery to digital release. Imagine if they announced it then we had to wait - that would have been worse!!

+harrietamidala1691 They were found in late 2011, but it took that long for them to actually get hold of them and bring them home. The extra 4 months were transferring the episodes and restoring them.

Robo4900 I know that's shocking and more tragic as it missed the chance to have the same care and attention given too it like these got.

Stuart Halliday You see a microphone in one shot in the Enemy of the world.

Yep. My favourite Companion

"Listen..." - The Twelfth Doctor

UranusRemixer *chases navi with pestiside*

Seriously though, don't play Zelda at all and I swear I hear "listen" aswell. Creepy right?

Nah. It went: ee eu

Oh hell

Just contact me privately. You can take it directly to the BBC Archive in person.

@LudVan 77 Well, I don't give anything. I don't work for the BBC. I think that most people understand the reasons why things weren't kept. I agree with some, but not all of those reasons. I would rather focus on repairing the damage than dwelling on the reasons why. Sadly I don't have a time machine to travel back and change things. The BBC's focus now is on making new programmes and preserving what they have and also preserving any programmes that are returned. It's that preservation that interests me.

@@Misterquill Paul, what's the best way to contact you regarding some (non-Dr Who) off-air audio recordings from the 1960s I have?

That's not happening. Feast of Steven was never copied, and we know the master tape was erased. It's gone forever.

I would think eventually, yes. If you were a broadcast TV station and bought all the complete Second Doctor stories, then Enemy should be included. For now, I believe since it was recently found, stations can only buy it and promote it as a "special lost adventure." Thats what happened here in the U.S. when Tomb of the Cybermen was first found in 1992, but I believe it was eventually packaged with the rest of the complete Troughton stories..

Death'sDungeon For how long if they aren't able to restore and maintain the print for, a shame if so!

A damn shame.

Now its back!

Which one

No. They were kept secret so they could be restored and prepared for release.

@@hothemeep1219 it’s just a theory

​@@giles852002One with no evidence whatsoever.

@@MuchWhittering it was just a theory, I wasn’t presenting anything as fact.

Even if something has been found (which I doubt) he's obviously not gonna talk about it before the announcement.

Cinematographic films have the soundtrack right next to the frame, its called optical sound although sometimes it can also be magnetic.

97

That's the number of the episodes known to be lost. But my question was how many of those episodes actually survived the archive purge. No one can tell. And those episodes that survived are probably still somewhere. In the worst case, some of the episodes are in the possession of private collectors who keep them in their basement, instead of returning them to the BBC, where these episodes belong.

I imagine it's somewhere between 0 and 97 And no, not even web of fear 3 is a guarantee We know it existed in that archive when Phil found it, but it could still have been destroyed since then Horrible thought, but it's technically a possibility

@@Yetaxa As far as I know, episode 3 was recovered, but it got lost before it could be returned. Whatever happened to that episode afterwards remains a mystery. Anyway, I'm happy for every episode that got recovered, and I'm pretty optimistic that some more have survived. This may not be Doctor Who related, but I once read that a lost 35mm print of the Italian film "Giallo a Venezia" was found in the attic of a dental clinic in Portugal (the print contained the lost uncut version of the film). My point is, if a film can be found in such a place, it could be possible that some Doctor Who episodes are located in similar places. Who knows, maybe someone has episode 4 of The Tenth Planet in a garden shed, hidden under loads of tools.

waterfieldV Yes however the extras on these two stories could have been exceptional had they been found 10 years earlier!

@@Robert_Manners I could imagine the late Barry Letts being very ecstatic that Enemy of the World had found.

@@Super_Mario128 I always thought it to be a much stronger story than people gave it credit for, especially based on the reviews from only seeing episode 3. I actually prefer it more to watch than Web of fear and never actually bought the dvd of Web after watching via apple store. Yet I have special edition dvd of this story.

+Michael Diehl It was Episodes 5 and 10 of The Dalek's Master Plan found in a Church

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Ello me’s from the past! I came back!

They're not in wide screen, it's their set-up stretching the 4:3 image to wide screen. The source files on their machine, like the films, will be in 4:3. Why would you want it like that in the video anyway? It would make Jamie McCrimmon look as fat as the Doctor, and the Doctor morbidly obese!

@@aidanlunn7441..yes but the tardis will also be fatter lol

NZ TV Techo The film is transferred flat, like log so we have room to play with. However, it is a capture of a video recording so we don't have much room to play with.

We decided, due to the tramline scratches and other damage, to transfer the films in HD, so we could remove the scratches in finer detail, without affecting the surrounding image as much. By utilising the entire HD area (1920 x 1080), we use more pixels and therefore capture the fine damage in greater detail. The image is stretched horizontally yes, but so is the damage. One that has been done, cleaned up, the final version is put back to the correct ratio.

sweet, like reverse anamorphic

Have a look at some of the recent Blu-Rays. The Season 2 and Celestial Toymaker releases are probably the best you're gonna get, barring a huge increase in technology.

The cleaning solution I use during the film prep is Pec-12. It's a cleaning solution for acetate films, although I always test the film first. For these films I cleaned the edges on the film on a hand rewinder. This removed a fine layer of grit that had settled on the film edges.

+chicagofrank2010 53 of his 119 episodes. So slightly under half are missing.

Robo9400 But you can still figure out the story because they have the audio recording and some pictures

Robo9400 Yeah I know, but at least we can see it. And some of them have been entirely reconstructed using animation.

Clara oswald Do you keep them with your web of fear episode 3

+Henry Jones Jnr. Some episodes were in fact recorded to 35mm film. However, these episodes were originally on videotape but film recordings were made from those tapes onto 16mm film.

+Paul Vanezis A very few episodes were directly telerecorded, either because no Quad was available, or because the program was planned to be edited, which was easier to do on film than tape. I forget which one, but one episode of Dr. Who was found on early home home video, which would have been the only Troughton or Hartnell episode to be on direct video; however the episode was already available on kinescope, and in fact the kinescope was the master for the episode, it was never recorded to tape. Ironic.

The episodes were recorded to film for sending out to countries that could not handle video-tape at the time

Originally master tapes were 35mm but telerecorded onto cheaper 16mm film for sale overseas, however bbc often held both 35mm master tapes and 16mm tapes that have been returned or rejected

+Robo9400 fair enough I understand it better now thanks! but I still don't understand why some who episodes exist in 35mm format and 16mm

About two and a half hours ..

@@Misterquill Wow really ? I was expecting a day to clean up the roll of film and two or three to get it all completely digitized to at least a mp4 file

@@The_Blue_Otaku It's all in the preparation. Some films only took 15 minutes to prep for the transfer session, longest was over an hour. Thos entails hand winding the films through, pinching the edges of the film with a film pad, a non abrasive polishing cloth soaked in an archival film cleaner. At this stage, we're not touching the surface of the film, just getting the grit and dust off the film edges so it doesn't settle on the surface of the film as it's wound through. The added benefit is that I can feel any damage or joints as the film goes through my fingers, stop and make a new repair to the print. Once done, I add a new length of white spacer on the end and mark up the film, then rewind the film and add new white spacer on the front. After that, the film goes into the ultrasonic cleaner which takes around 12 minutes. After that the film is ready for transfer. We made uncompressed high definition files of 'The Web of Fear' and 'The Enemy of the World'. Today I would make 2K DPX files.

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