What are these “behind the scenes” pieces of footage from the sixties and seventies that are referred to by people?
Several reels of footage showing work in progress on various stories are now known to exist. There are three very common reels plus two which were a lot rarer in fan “bootleg” circles. The common reels show location work in progress on The Smugglers (shot on 16mm colour Ektachrome film by the owner of the farm being used as the location, durn. 2’37”), The Abominable Snowmen (shot on colour standard 8mm film by director Gerald Blake, durn. 3’26”, though other footage shot by Fraser Hines exists, some of which is included on the re-release of his Myth Makers tape) and The Daemons (believed to have been shot by a local 8mm enthusiast in Aldbourne, the village which appears on screen as Devil’s End, again on colour standard 8, durn. 6’16”). [Timings are for PAL (European/Australian) video]. The current fan versions of these first three reels circulating are very high quality, and unlike the cine-clips from missing episodes the footage does not suffer from cut-off to any great degree (as it
