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Re: New Australian DVD's

Posted by Marc Martin on Jun 09, 2007; 5:44pm
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/New-Australian-DVD-s-tp1509460p1509466.html

Mark Davies wrote:
> Disappointing.

I can't believe that anyone would call that list of extras "disappointing".
I rent DVD's all the time, and for the most part, there are very few
extras. Sometimes none.

This is a HUGE amount of extras for an obscure, 40-year old TV show.
And certainly more than any previous effort (UK, US, France, Italy,
Japan, Germany)

Just the 2 new commentaries make it worthwhile for me...

> As many shots of special effects sequences did not go according to plan
> where are the thousands of feet of rushes gone.Surely not all destroyed.

Hmmm, I would think that if there was any interesting missing footage
left, we would have seen it on the UK DVD set, or on the Fanderson documentary.
I think most everything was thrown away, either at the time of the filming
of the series, or during a rumored "purge" that took place in the 1990's
when Polygram owned the ITC catalog.

I agree that more extras would be nice, but one usually has to justify
these with a "business case" -- that is, will spending thousands of dollars
on a certain extra feature bring in that much more in sales?

Marc