Tolkien in Oxford, additional 95 minutes of Tolkien

10 Jul, 2015 (edited)
2015-7-10 2:01:50 PM UTC

http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/writing-hobbit-perilous-quest

Dr Stuart Lee states in his 3rd June 2015 talk, that additional footage of Tolkien has been found from what was recorded in the 1968 Tolkien in Oxford BBC TV program (http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/writers/12237.shtml), an additional 1 hour 30 minutes.

Any suggestions on how we can get to view this footage, the BBC will own the rights to the material?

I am making the assumption that the additional material is from Leslie Megahey, the producer of the BBC 1968 Tolkien in Oxford program, but may be wrong.

Deagol

10 Jul, 2015
2015-7-10 3:41:49 PM UTC

We saw some of it at the TS AGM. It is 'roughcut' working footage not the high quality colour copy - which may or may not still exist somewhere in the BBC archives.

What we saw consisted of clips where Tolkien phrases his comments in a way that is conversational rather than the sound-bite statements that are needed for broadcast in a documentary - so he would agree with the interviewer and then go on to talk more rather than just making a standalone statement. This is very difficult to edit apparently. Basically the 90 minutes are what was left on the cutting room floor.

The tape belongs to LM but the copyright belongs to the BBC.

You can see his talk on the TS website - but not the Tolkien bits unfortunately due to copyright. LM can explain it much more clearly than I.

http://www.tolkiensociety.org/2015/07 ... -about-tolkien-in-oxford/

There was some talk of showing it at Oxonmoot but no idea if this will prove to be possible - there are permissions issues to address and so on.

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