[Afamilyatwar-list] Episode 6: Missing Content

[Scott Filderman]

Around the 20:30 mark, there is a 30-second video (as opposed to film) scene in the Ashton living room, with Edwin, Jean, Philip, and a very worried Margaret listening to the Prime Minister on the radio talking about German forces spreading into the Netherlands and the spread of the war front. The scene ends with a tight close-up on Margaret (the entire episode is building to Jon’s imminent disappearance versus the families’ hopeful self-assurances that everything will be okay).
The video scene occurs directly between two filmed scenes of military activity. The Dutch set retains the scene; the English Acorn set eliminates it. National pride? There are other radio scenes in which historical transmissions are used, so it can’t be a rights issue.
By the way, as regards bumpers, there have been two instances (by chance in Episodes 5 and 6) so far where a couple bars of opening theme music occur at the beginning of scenes. Comparing the English and Dutch sets shows that scenes are picked up just a couple of seconds earlier to catch what is now obviously music on the soundtrack that disappears as the English set edits the respective scenes differently, starting just after the music fades out. Now I know why these “cues” occur, as bumper accompaniment. Not being familiar with original broadcast (how we Yanks say transmitted) material, I didn’t know to look for bumpers. 
On to Episode 7!


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