2/2 In addition, the FILM IS FABULOUS team have secured the sole surviving film prints, or superior copies, of complete episodes of Dad’s Army, The Likely Lads, Steptoe and Son, and other classic shows from the 1960s.
For more information, please visit:
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MORE BBC TREASURES FOUND!

Film is Fabulous! are pleased to announce the recovery of more TV treasures missing from the BBC Archive. Basil Brush, Play School, and Z Cars.

For more information, please visit:
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filmisfabulous Childhood treasured memories

filmisfabulous Basil Brush I used to really look forward to Basil Brush and Mr Derek, when I was a young girl. I’m now a retired grandma and I still love His Royal Foxness.

Basil Brush was immensely popular. The Film is Fabulous! team have recovered 2 missing episodes of The Basil Brush Show from 1970 season. One will be screened at the missing episodes festival, 1st June 2024, at The Courtyard Cinema and Art Centre
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MOGUL: The Troubleshooters

The Missing Episodes Festival being held at The Courtyard Cinema and Art Centre in Hereford, on Saturday 1st June, 2024

incl. episode of MOGUL: Is That Tiger, Man? (Broadcast: 30th April 1966).

please visit:
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Cataloguing the first collection

Dr. Peter Lester is leading cataloguing of 620 films that comprise the first case study of the pilot scheme initiated by Film is Fabulous! with De Montfort University’s (CATHI).
please watch the following video:
filmisfabulous.org.uk/documenting-pr…

Tim Beddows’ Film Collection

The Film is Fabulous! team have been working closely with the estate of the late Tim Beddows, the founder, and former Managing Director of Network Distributing.

For more information, please visit:

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The Film is Fabulous! team are delighted to announce first in series of festivals, at which the missing episodes that they have recovered are screened. The Courtyard Cinema and Art Centre, Hereford, on Saturday 1st June.
For further information

filmisfabulous.org.uk/missing-episod…

Recovered Sykes and Basil Brush episodes to be screened (British Comedy Guide) comedy.co.uk/tv/fyi/500/rec…

Movie Collector, John Clancy, of the Film is Fabulous! team, recently visited The Courtyard Cinema & Art Centre. John captured visit on video the projection suite, where Simon Nicholls, Head of Film, provided an explanation of how modern DCP works:

LINK: m.youtube.com/watch?v=9PcbwQ…

Courtyard Cinema & Art Centre in Hereford will host the first in a series of Missing Episodes Festivals being staged by the Film is Fabulous! team. Festival will also hold discussion with special guests about the preservation of vulnerable film treasures.
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Film is Fabulous! team has initiated a pilot study with De Montfort University’s Cinema & TV History Institute (CATHI). CATHI is home to the Hammer Script Archive, Norman Wisdom Collection & Cinema Museum’s Indian Cinemas Archive.

For more information

filmisfabulous.org.uk/cinema-and-tel…

Something I don't see mentioned much, some of the 50s Billy Bunter show. Watched a couple of the existing episodes recently and very much enjoyed it.

(Although I know it'd be a miracle.)

The Courtyard Cinema and Art Centre in Hereford will host the first in a series of Missing Episodes Festivals. It will take place on Saturday, 1st June.
To book your ticket, please call the Box Office on 01432 340555, or for more information visit
filmisfabulous.org.uk/missing-episod…

filmisfabulous Nigel Kneale’s The Road

Armchair Theatre - Underground

The Goodies - Kitten Kong

More Callan!

Proper film recordings of the missing colour Steptoe and Son episodes, so they can be colour recovered.

Please and thank you!

filmisfabulous I'm a massive Doctor Who fan but you know what? I hope there's some Dad's Army or Adam Addamant on there. Us Whovians have enough.

The state of the art storage facilities within De Montfort University’s Kimberlin Library Special Collections Department are now home, temporarily, to the first 600 films of the pilot study.

Cataloguing will begin on Monday, by Dr. Peter Lester & the FILM IS FABULOUS! team.

filmisfabulous It's that love, sensitivity and understanding of collectors that I hope will lead to even more discoveries. 🤞

filmisfabulous I would also like to confess that I've spent 10 minutes zooming in on this picture and trying to read the writing on the cans.

This is my porn.