[Afamilyatwar-list] Episode 6: Missing Content

[Brian Renforth]

Yes, each Part Two and Part Three captions are accompanied by the opening theme for a few seconds fading into the next scene. It's inevitable bars of the theme will remain. Note how the caption  is black with the next scene cross fading into the programme accompanied by the theme. This example from Episode 5 as shown on TPTV.

You can usually tell when a break is coming by looking for a square at the top right hand corner of the screen. However, occasionally this is used between film to VT scenes but not very often.

While the Dutch set is clearly superior to the Acorn one I was disappointed the former still chopped the break captions (and accompanying music) out. Some of course won't mind but I'm a sticker for seeing programmes as they originally went out.

I've contacted Network DVD to see if they plan to release AFAW and Sam in the future.  They tend to take care in issuing programmes completely unedited. I see they have  "The Spoils of War" out which I'll be ordering in due course.

Very much enjoying your contributions Scott.

Cheers
Brian



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Subject: [Afamilyatwar-list] Episode 6: Missing Content

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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