"Tomorrow Today"

Hi all,

At last year's San Diego Comic Con, we showed a 2 minute clip
from the 1970 UK TV series "Tomorrow Today". This featured an
interview with Sylvia Anderson promoting her new show "UFO"
and promoting the women's UFO moonbase outfit as a practical
fashion for the future (with Antonia Ellis seen running around
London in the outfit).

Here is that clip -- it requires Quicktime 6 to view:

http://ufoseries.com/movieClips/tomorrow.mov

Marc

--- In [hidden email], Marc Martin <marc@u...> wrote:

> At last year's San Diego Comic Con, we showed a 2 minute clip
> from the 1970 UK TV series "Tomorrow Today". This featured an
> interview with Sylvia Anderson promoting her new show "UFO"
> and promoting the women's UFO moonbase outfit as a practical
> fashion for the future (with Antonia Ellis seen running around
> London in the outfit).


Thanks Marc for this, you are amazing, getting all these photos/
movie clips and putting them up for us all to see!

Sylvia comments on how an outfit like the moonbase costume would be
taken up in the future and she was kind of right. I've seen jackets
with detachable sleeves and trousers with detachable legs that turn
into shorts, although only in the past few years. She says
ladies could adapt an outfit from work to evening by (presumably)
detaching bits, although I personally agree with Gerry's view, that
it's probably nicer to just get changed!!

Is it meant to be possible to save these quicktime movie clips to
your own personal PC? If it is, I haven't a clue how to do it!

Bye for now,

Sarah

> Is it meant to be possible to save these quicktime movie clips to
> your own personal PC? If it is, I haven't a clue how to do it!

That's one of the problems with Quicktime -- the "Pro" version
(which costs money) makes it easy to save clips from the
player, but the free version doesn't.

Instead, try going to your email program, and to the message
where I announced that movie. Right-click on the link, and see if
your email program gives you an option to save/download the
file that the link points at. This method also should work
for your web browser, when looking at the Quicktime movies
on my website: http://ufoseries.com/movieClips

The one nice thing I like about Quicktime is that you can start
watching the movie before it's downloaded, and that the user
doesn't have to worry about downloading extra compressor/
decompressor ("codecs") files in order to get the movie to
play.

Marc

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:21:15 -0700
Marc Martin <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> Here is that clip -- it requires Quicktime 6 to view:
>
> http://ufoseries.com/movieClips/tomorrow.mov
>


Thanks Marc, great stuff! BTW Linux users should find that
Mplayer will play these Quicktime films without having to
install additional codecs; this one worked for me anyway.

James

--
Dig It : a forum for Euro Beatles fans - http://beatles.dyndns.org/

> Thanks Marc, great stuff! BTW Linux users should find that
> Mplayer will play these Quicktime films without having to
> install additional codecs; this one worked for me anyway.

That's good feedback, thanks! The "Tomorrow Today" clip
uses MPEG-4 video and MPEG-4 audio, which is a first clip
I've put up that's done that (the other Quicktimes on
my site were all Sorenson Video and QDesign Audio).

My personal preference would be to create .mp4 files, but
I've downloaded at least a dozen evaulation versions
of various programs, and nothing has the feature set
that I'm looking for (e.g, Quicktime won't save an
.mp4 to an arbitrary dimensions, Nero Recode won't let
save an audio track as mono, some programs
don't recognize the DVD/SVCD source material properly,
or they only recognize the video but not the audio).
And oddly enough, Quicktime will allow me to do what
I want to if I save it as a .mov file, but not as a
.mp4 file.

Marc

--- In [hidden email], Marc Martin <marc@u...> wrote:
> try going to your email program, and to the message where I
announced that movie. Right-click on the link, and see if your email
program gives you an option to save/download the file that the link
points at. This method also should work for your web browser, when
looking at the Quicktime movies on my website:
http://ufoseries.com/movieClips

I did as you said and it worked! Many thanks Marc.

The Cult TV 1986 interview looks like it was professionally done or
semi-professionally, having two cameras and lights etc. I imagine
the organisers must have filmed other interviews at this event, on
this occasion. Does anyone know if other events/ conventions over
the years filmed interviews of UFO guests? Amelia (from
EdBishopFans) told me there were audio recordings of interviews at
Fanderson events available.

I also downloaded the clips of the Gerry anderson documentary (is it
Mr. Thunderbirds?) which I have never seen other than these clips.
Was it a 'one-off' screening, or is it available to buy anywhere?
I'd like to see all of it, if it's possible.

One last question, does anyone know if there is a new name for the
website www.supermarionation.net? It says the domain name has
expired; I don't know if this means it simply doesn't exist anymore,
or if this site goes by another name. Thanks.

Have a good weekend everyone,


Sarah (UK)

> The Cult TV 1986 interview looks like it was professionally done or
> semi-professionally, having two cameras and lights etc. I imagine
> the organisers must have filmed other interviews at this event, on
> this occasion. Does anyone know if other events/ conventions over
> the years filmed interviews of UFO guests? Amelia (from
> EdBishopFans) told me there were audio recordings of interviews at
> Fanderson events available.

Yes, there are the Fanderson cassettes (I have the cassettes, but
will need to get a working tape deck to transfer them to my
computer), and also one of the Fanderson conventions was videotaped
(I lent out my original tape once and the person never returned it).
Plus, I'm sure many of convention interviews are filmed by
*somebody* -- I have a version of the 2000 Ed Bishop / Gabrielle
Drake interview, and also some stuff from the ISOSHADO conventions.
So, in theory, we could have lots of this sort of stuff available
on the website.

> I also downloaded the clips of the Gerry anderson documentary (is it
> Mr. Thunderbirds?) which I have never seen other than these clips.
> Was it a 'one-off' screening, or is it available to buy anywhere?
> I'd like to see all of it, if it's possible.

I don't know the answer to this -- I know it was broadcast in the
UK, and somebody must have sent me a tape of it. Where that
tape is now, I'm not sure...

Marc

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 07:15:54 -0700

> I don't know the answer to this -- I know it was broadcast in the
> UK, and somebody must have sent me a tape of it. Where that
> tape is now, I'm not sure...
>

I'm sure I still have a tape somewhere .. can someone remind me
when it was broadcast? Must have been about two years ago now, if
not longer.

James

--
Dig It : a forum for Euro Beatles fans - http://beatles.dyndns.org/

> I'm sure I still have a tape somewhere .. can someone remind me
> when it was broadcast? Must have been about two years ago now, if
> not longer.

According to my website, it was broadcast 27 August 2000.

Marc

If you're referring to the Channel Five "Mr Thunderbirds" documentary, didn't it go out in 2000? It got a repeat showing a couple of years ago, AFAIK. I remember taping it for future reference and then I inadvertantly taped over it. Argh!

James Gibbon <[hidden email]> wrote:On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 07:15:54 -0700

> I don't know the answer to this -- I know it was broadcast in the
> UK, and somebody must have sent me a tape of it. Where that
> tape is now, I'm not sure...
>

I'm sure I still have a tape somewhere .. can someone remind me
when it was broadcast? Must have been about two years ago now, if
not longer.


---------------------------------
Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 01:43:52 -0700 (PDT)
MICK DICKENS <[hidden email]> wrote:

> If you're referring to the Channel Five "Mr Thunderbirds" documentary,
> didn't it go out in 2000? It got a repeat showing a couple of years
> ago, AFAIK.

That's a relief - I must have watched the repeat! I thought it seemed
a bit too recent to have been five years ago, but time flies at a
remarkable speed these days.

James


--
Dig It : a forum for Euro Beatles fans - http://beatles.dyndns.org/