[Afamilyatwar-list] Episode 23: Missing Material II

[john at johnfinch.com]

On 2018-04-18 23:22, Scott Filderman via Afamilyatwar-list wrote:
> This episode, Your Loving Arms, is by far the most heavily edited so
> far.
> 
> Around the 22-minute mark, right before the filmed scene in which
> Sheila meets Colin at the stop, there is a huge cut of 4 1/4-minute
> video scene at the dance club. During this scene, Freda and Penty
> (short for Pentecost [insert reason here for this significant
> name—Mr. Finch??] get to know each other, note Penty’s
> disinclination to get into why he was so named, note Freda’s sense
> of personal drift (“Im like a pendulum. I swing from melancholy to
> cheer and back again!”), and find out about Penty’s home life in
> Whitsun and much about fishing different kinds of fish. This scene is
> typically beautifully written and performed. Freda dons Penty’s army
> hat, which seems to underline her sense of naive play. The scene ends
> with Sheila leaving the club as she has to be at work early next
> morning. This sets up the following filmed scene beginning with Sheila
> walking to the bus stop. During the bus stop scene, there is a brief
> 15-second videotape return to the club.
> 
> Additional missing scenes to follow. Total timings show 51 minutes for
> the Netherlands set, and 42:30 for the Acorn set.
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Hi Scott,   Going from memory (my written records are very scanty) this 
episode was written by Geof Lancashire.  Only Geoff would say where the 
name Pentecost came from.  I will have left it in editing since I had 
complete trust in Geoff's checking of his sources. He enjoyed drifting 
away from the main story I will have given him and I would have 
encouraged this as I always tried to respect a writer's individuality.   
I had no idea of the editing done in overseas transmissions until you 
all pointed it out and I find it very irritating, especially with a 
series like FAW which had first class researchers. Your own research and 
that of other members is astonishingly good.Some of the overseas 
reviewers I found to be very arrogant (Norway an exception) so your 
results don't entirely surprise me. Regards,     JF.