Interested in information about a documentary supposedly featuring Douglas Badar, that was filmed at Denham in July 1956. I have it recorded in an aircraft logbook that this aircraft flew to Denham for BBC filming on the 26th July 1956. I understand from the owner of the aircraft at this time, that it was televised a few weeks (August/September) and featured Dougkas in some way.
Does anybody out there in forum land have any information on it?
FB
By: Fournier Boy - 29th February 2016 at 17:25
Thanks Skeeker, I have a few feelers out with colleagues who work in the BBC so hopefully will find which desk my request needs to land on via an “insider”
Will update the forum if something comes up, but by all means if somebody has a copy, please post away!!
FB
By: skeeler - 29th February 2016 at 15:37
The ‘Genome’ project appears to be just BBC listings from The Radio Times, rather than to have any links to actual available material. The BBC ‘online’ programme archive called ‘BBC Motion Gallery’ was held and administered by the BBC until a few years ago, but is now held and administered on their behalf by Getty Images – see here – http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/footage/bbcmotiongallery
It is searchable but any results are somewhat limited by the description of the material. When you input a search term you will need to check for ‘analogue’ results in a pop up window at top right, otherwise anything analogue won’t appear. Having searched ‘Kenneth More’, ‘Douglas Bader’ and ‘They Reach For The Sky’ myself, the programme named did not appear. I suspect that given the age of the programme concerned you would be more likely to get a positive result by asking the BBC/Getty archivists themselves?
By: avion ancien - 28th February 2016 at 21:27
What a fantastic archive!
Yes, it makes one wish that one could watch what was rather than what, nowadays, is on BBC Television!
By: Fournier Boy - 28th February 2016 at 17:44
Good god I do believe you are right!!!!! I will put my chums on it straight away!
What a fantastic archive!
FB
By: skeeler - 28th February 2016 at 14:03
Maybe it was for the 13 August 1956 programme listed here at 1920hrs? – http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctv/1956-08-13
By: Fournier Boy - 27th February 2016 at 20:56
Thank you you John, that’s great!
FB
By: John Green - 27th February 2016 at 16:25
If you drop a line to Mrs. Beatrice Paul the owner of Denham, mentioning the reason for the query, she might remember the occasion.
By: Fournier Boy - 27th February 2016 at 15:27
Ok, the joys of posting from an iPhone in a hurry without checking it. No need to be petty, everybody knows who I am talking about…
The owner said it was definately a documentary for the BBC, although he’s in his 90s now, he’s still very switched on and with it, he just couldn’t remember the name. He thought it involved lots of people flying in for BadEr to be surrounded by aeroplanes whilst interviewed. If I can get a title, I can approach the BBC to see if they have a copy in their archives still.
FB
By: kenjohan - 27th February 2016 at 10:59
Never Heard of “Dougkas Badar” 🙂
Interested in information about a documentary supposedly featuring Douglas Badar, that was filmed at Denham in July 1956. I have it recorded in an aircraft logbook that this aircraft flew to Denham for BBC filming on the 26th July 1956. I understand from the owner of the aircraft at this time, that it was televised a few weeks (August/September) and featured Dougkas in some way.
Does anybody out there in forum land have any information on it?
FB
By: gedburke3 - 27th February 2016 at 10:16
Hi
I think this may be the film ‘Reach for the sky’ and not a documentary.
Some of the filming was done at Denham in 1956.
Gerry
By: Arabella-Cox - 27th February 2016 at 09:19
Spelling Bader’s name correctly may help you in your search, FB.
Anon.
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