{"id":35387,"date":"2023-08-01T14:05:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T12:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1866379"},"modified":"2023-08-01T14:24:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T12:24:34","slug":"doctor-who-classic-the-smugglers-gets-colour-revamp-first-look","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/doctor-who-classic-the-smugglers-gets-colour-revamp-first-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who classic The Smugglers gets colour revamp \u2013 first look"},"content":{"rendered":"

Never-before-seen colourised clips will premiere at the BFI’s Missing Believed Wiped event. <\/p>

By Morgan Jeffery\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 01 August 2023 at 12:00 PM<\/p>

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One of William Hartnell\u2019s final Doctor Who<\/a> outings is getting a fresh lick of paint, with clips from 1966 serial The Smugglers<\/a> getting the full-colour treatment.<\/p>\n

The four-parter \u2013 Hartnell\u2019s penultimate adventure as the First Doctor \u2013 was originally aired in black-and-white, but excerpts from the story have been newly colourised by TV archivists Kaleidoscope.<\/p>\n

RadioTimes.com<\/a> has exclusive first-look images from the colourisation, with the clips set to be screened for the first time at the BFI\u2019s Missing Believed Wiped on 5th August.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe always wondered: what would Doctor Who look like in colour?\u201d said Chris Perry, Kaleidoscope CEO. \u201cIt was made in colour but shown in black-and-white. So we went back to original production photos shot on set and tried to match the colours to the recording.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A side-by-side comparison of the black-and-white and colour versions of Doctor Who story The Smugglers<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

Kaleidoscope collaborated with colourisation experts That\u2019s Chroma on the project, with The Smugglers being picked as the most viable candidate for the process.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was sent a list of potential clips, and out of those suggestions The Smugglers seemed the most achievable option \u2013 given a limited timeframe to work on it,\u201d said a That\u2019s Chroma spokesperson.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe existence of some colour reference material, on-set production stills, was definitely a consideration too, and I also thought that out of the suggested clips, The Smugglers would work best in colour.<\/p>\n

\u201cGenerally using \u2018original\u2019 colours (when known) presents no major difficulties. Occasionally some colours were deliberately \u2018wrong\u2019 on-set to look right in the black-and-white transmission which has to be taken into account.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhite objects in particular were frequently a pale colour other than white, as pure white tended to flare on the black-and-white cameras. It wasn\u2019t an issue with this particular material however.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Anneke Wills as companion Polly in The Smugglers<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

That\u2019s Chroma believes that the colourisation process could be applied to full episodes in future, though stressed that the process is \u201cquite difficult and very time consuming\u201d, with between 30-60 minutes spent working on each second of footage.<\/p>\n

\u201cEntire episodes could certainly be colourised, given sufficient time and financial resource,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

Colourising episodes originally aired in black-and-white can sometimes be a divisive practice, with critics arguing that archive footage should be left untouched and viewed as intended \u2013 but That\u2019s Chroma has a clear retort to that suggestion. \u201cPeople have been \u2018tinkering\u2019 with Doctor Who ever since Silver Nemesis<\/a> was released as an extended version on VHS in 1993.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of the DVD releases have new CGI effects or remixed 5.1 soundtracks \u2013 but these are always presented as optional alternatives, the episodes are always available as originally transmitted. Colourisation is much the same, it\u2019s an optional alternative but it\u2019s never meant to replace the originals. So if people don\u2019t like colourisations they have choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A side-by-side comparison of the black-and-white and colour versions of Doctor Who story The Smugglers<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

Kaleidoscope was founded in 1987 and specialises in\u00a0locating previously missing, believed lost, television footage \u2013 the organisation has worked in partnership with the BFI since 1995 on the BFI\u2019s Missing Believed Wiped initiative to recover, restore and return British television to the archives.<\/p>\n

Alongside a screening of the colourised Doctor Who clips, the BFI\u2019s next annual Missing Believed Wiped event at BFI Southbank \u2013 celebrating 35 years of Kaleidoscope \u2013 will also showcase rare colour footage of a television performance by the Bee Gees, a previously-unheard interview with Jeremy Brett (star of ITV\u2019s Sherlock Holmes series, which aired from 1984 to 1994), episodes of Jim Henson\u2019s Fraggle Rock previously thought lost following their original broadcast in the 1980s, and the unaired pilot for Up the Toga, a US version of Frankie Howerd sitcom Up Pompeii, made in 1972 and believed lost for decades.<\/p>

Tickets for the Missing Believed Wiped Special: Kaleidoscope at 35 \u2013 5th August at BFI Southbank \u2013 are available now<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Doctor Who is available to stream on\u00a0BBC iPlayer<\/a>\u00a0with episodes of the classic series also available on BritBox \u2013 you can sign up for a\u00a07-day free trial here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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