Monthly Archives: November 2009
Sweet Dream For Tull Fans
FANS of classic rock band Jethro Tull are briefly living in the past thanks to the emergence on the Internet of a clip from a missing edition of Top of the Pops. A 32-second excerpt from the group’s November ’69 … Continue reading
Filed under Clips, Discoveries, Music
The Reign Of Error
A WORDPRESS neighbour of wipednews.com has helped restore the correct audio to a brief clip from one of the missing episodes of Doctor Who. Blogger Rumpio came to realize the fragment of grainy b&w footage – part of a 15-minute … Continue reading
Filed under Doctor Who, Restoration
A Kaleidoscope Christmas
CLASSIC TV organisation Kaleidoscope have unwrapped details of their Christmas event, which will feature a screening of one of the two Till Death Us Do Part episodes that were recently recovered. The free event, which takes place on Saturday, December … Continue reading
Filed under Events
What A Bargain! Lost Chaplin Short Bought On Ebay
IT’S AMAZING what you can pick up on eBay for a pittance, as Morace Park discovered to his delight recently. For Park, an antiques dealer and inventor, has wowed the movie community by stumbling upon a previously unknown, uncatalogued film … Continue reading
Filed under Cinema, Discoveries, History
New Feature: Popdown Progress
BACK in April wipednews.com ran a feature about psychedelic music fan Peter Prentice’s to track down a copy of lost ’60s underground film Popdown. You can read the original article here but things have moved on quite rapidly in the … Continue reading
