Various things on your wants list

Dear John,

Although I really should be doing stuff for my impending wedding (13 Sept!),

................weddings you can organise any time, we've done eight this year at www.lapreghiera.com, but websites and films are MUCH more important! Just don't let your intended read this email!

I've been a bit distracted working on a major revamp of my website about the London Undergound in Films & TV. I hadn't done much with it in the last couple of years, mainly because I was working on a very protracted DVD release of 'Things to Come', and then got involved in a BBC4 documentary about the Underground (inclduing its use as a film location).

...................all good grist for our blog, thank you.

Anyway, with those projects out of the way, I was particularly spurred into revisiting the Underground site by reading Glyn Horton's book on British railways in feature films, which unfortunately contains some appalling misidentifications of stations (e.g. 'Seven Days to Noon').

.............so, can you correct him? Tell us the errors. And never forget that those who can...........do. Those who can't ............criticize. The fact that this person has put in hundreds of hours producing a book at all, is a magnificent achievement, so, be tolerant, and advise him for the next edition.

I was trying to pin down some detail on 'The Yellow Balloon' (tearing my hair out trying to ID the Underground stations used!), ended up at your site again, and got even more distracted.

..............yes "Yellow Baloon" is on the list to be added, one day, along with more than 700 other films!!! Maybe Simon can help. I've copied him into this email.

Looking through the film lists, from memory I definitely have the following that you have in black on your site:

..............which means that we want them please.

The Gentle Gunman [PAL VHS]
Gert and Daisy's Weekend [PAL VHS]
Gumshoe [PAL DVD from digital broadcast]
Love on Wheels [NTSC VHS]
1984 [1956 - NTSC VHS]
Manhunt [NTSC VHS]
The Passionate Friends [VHS]
Piccadilly [NTSC DVD]
The Red Shoes [PAL DVD]
Silver Bears ['Daily Mail' freebie I have spare]
The War Game [PAL DVD]
The Clouded Yellow [PAL DVD from digital broadcast]
Rita, Sue and Bob Too [VHS]
Passionate Summer [VHS]

I can transfer all of these to DVD-R, in the case of the NTSC copies either as that, or converted to PAL.

..................er, yes, I think so..............as long as they play, then all is well. My swaps are those tapes that are listed in red or green, and I'll send you your requirements as soon as I receive your discs/tapes.

Incidentally, the Underground scenes in 'Manhunt' are all firmly studio based.

.............OK

I also recently acquired the 1978 BBC TV film under the original title of 'Rogue Male', which has a lot of nice London location work.

.................better and better

Incidentally, I noticed in the London A-D list that you seem to have 'Bulldog Jack' down as 'Brighton Rock'!

..............who can we blame................except me? An appalling error, or human frailty?

..............To err is human, to forgive..................

.............I hope that our thousands of hours of work somewhat ameliorate
this small error, which we'll correct, now that we know.

...........Good to hear from you

...........Best wishes

...........John

Best Wishes,

Nick Cooper