[Afamilyatwar-list] Episode 10: Missing Content

Fri Apr 6 13:31:22 CDT 2018

Our story thus far:
I am almost finished Series One (down to the last two episodes). So far, there have been only three extremely brief scenes deleted from the Acorn set. As Brian and Richard have commented, no one knows why the brief edits were made but guess it might have been due to DVD timing restrictions or maybe picking up episodes from pre-edited sources, but these are guesses and not good ones. 
Total time for these three deleted scenes: maybe 2 entire minutes! Why bother???
Never trust DVD timings down to the split second. The sets ARE roughly different in how they treat closing credits (freeze-framing, including closing cards, Granada logos) and the intrusion of “bumpers” (End of Part I, Beginning of Part II, theme music): the Acorn set edited out all that visual and sound data, so I had no idea that was part of the original TV presentation until  Brian (I believe) pointed it out. Snatched of theme music are occasionally heard on the Netherlands set, and now I understand why they occur: sloppy editing, but that would account for a second or two more in part of an episode.
I am going (quite happily) through each episode twice, making notes on each scene: video or film, who appears. It will take me another few weeks to get through the remainder. Ah, the benefits of retirement. My wife and I are re-watching the Seventies serial Colditz and are onto Series Three of The Onedin Line AND we have The Spoils of War to watch. 
The casting, acting, and writing of AFAW are SO superior that they become master classes in “how to do it”! Besides, it’s fun seeing Patrick Troughton in and around his famous Doctor Who years (just watched The Enemy of the World—look, there’s Colin Douglas!!!) 
God bless my All-Region DVD player; it has opened up, literally, a world of great drama from Great Britain and the Netherlands! You can’t go back to the past, but parts of it sure is worth a visit!

On Friday, April 6, 2018, 1:51 PM, Hellman, Arthur <hellman at pitt.edu> wrote:

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I have not been reading the detailed posts about missing material (I want to avoid “spoilers,” even though I have watched the entire series), but it is surprising and disturbing to learn that the Acorn sets – which are the ones I have – are missing material that is in the Netherlands set. You would think it would be the other way around.

On Amazon, the Netherlands set says it runs for 2860 minutes, compared with the Acorn’s 2563 minutes. If those figures are accurate, that is a very substantial difference.

The Netherlands set compresses the episodes into 16 disks rather than 22. Have you found that to create any problems?

Thanks for your careful review of the two sets.

Arthur       

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