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Does anyone have a video or footage?

posted 21 years ago by jayworld
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I have been searching long and hard for a copy of this great mini series for over three years, and have made numerous inquiries via phone and e-mail to the BBC, Masterpiece Theater, and BBC National Archives. I had feared that this great work had been tossed along with many other BBC productions of the 1970s (the BBC has a long track record of not archiving and saving their television "history"), but such was not the case. This mini series still survives at the BBC National Archives, but can only be viewed under special arrangements by indepent filmmakers and/or film students.

Please, if anyone has a video copy, or footage, please contact me. This film was first aired by Masterpiece Theater here in the United States in 1971, and encored in 1972. To the best of my knowledge, that is the last time it was shown.

[–] renebos 20 years ago

I too have searching for it! (it was broadcasted in I 1973 in The Netherlands) I also came with a book with pictures from the series!
please let me know if/when there is a release!!

thanks,
Rene Bos

[–] poppahayden 19 years ago

I just discovered IMDb today, and immediately started looking to see if a copy of this BBC minmiseries The Last Of The Mohicans exists. Were you ever successful in getting a copy. If so, I am most interested in either purchasing, renting, or just being able to view that entire series once again.

Any further details on your quest would be appreciated

[–] perrycpa 19 years ago

In anybody locates where to buy a copy of this send me an e-mail at [email protected].

[–] amy-257 19 years ago

Well, that makes 5 of us! I haven't been able to locate this wonderful mini-series anywhere, and would be very grateful to be able to buy a copy. If this keeps up, we're likely to have enough interest to start a petition to send to the BBC National Archives...nice thought, anyway!

If anyone does obtain a copy, please do let the rest of us know. Many thanks.

[–] dennis-322 19 years ago

I too have been looking to find this series for about 10 years. I saw it on Masterpiece Theater when I was a child in the early 1970's. I would be very interested if anyone has a copy for sale. Please email me at [email protected].

DH

[–] bmkgmom 18 years ago

I'd be very interested, too. Please email me at [email protected] if any come available for purchase.

[–] kgronski 19 years ago

Add me to the list please! I would love to own or at least view a copy. Such a shame to have this gem hidden away. [email protected]

[–] mltosh 18 years ago

Add another to the interested parties! I was thoroughly disgusted by the latest (1992)version with Daniel Day Lewis. They totally changed around Cooper's fabulous story. As I recall, the 1971 version followed the book fairly closely.
If any one knows where we can all write to to express our interest, would you please let us know.
Thanks!

[–] mensing-1 18 years ago

I am yet another person looking to get my hands on this. Perhaps we need to start an organized campaign to get the bbc to release this on dvd?

[–] york-14 18 years ago

I have wanted to obtain this for student viewing for years. Because it stays so close to Cooper's original version, it would be the production of choice for special education and regular history classes.

I was mesmerized by the production in 1971 and had great difficulty restraining myself in the viewing the 1992 version's changes of the plot, emphasis and the setting.

I was brought up in woodland areas like thoses described in the book and remember how suprised I was to find out the filming was done in Scotland.

I'd be another recruit for a campaign to get the BBC to release this classic.

[–] jumpinjosh49 18 years ago

count me in. ive never seen it but i heard it was really good.

But I am alive. And I am not afraid.

[–] amy-257 18 years ago

Just a repeat to say that I am very eager to get a copy of this series, as soon as anyone knows how/where to obtain it. Any information, please e-mail: [email protected]. Thanks!

[–] r-allenby-1 18 years ago

Jayworld

I just found IMDb and I too immediately looked for this series. It had a huge impact on me as a child. Every Sunday my family would look forward to watching Masterpiece Theater for this mini-series. It was on past my bed time so I had to agree to take a nap on Sunday afternoons so I could stay up late and watch it. I have spent countless hours searching the web, writing the BBC, even trying to call directly from San Diego (where I live and grew up). I noticed the e-mail from somebody in your trail that said they found the series on video tape on E-Bay. I am skeptical that its the same series, but, given the interest that this has generated, and if we can find it, perhaps we can syndicate it as a group and put all on DVDs sharing the cost. Anyway, have you had any luck locating this? Please e-mail me at [email protected]. Thanks.

Robert P. Allenby

[–] helenelisechat 18 years ago

I watched this as a small child in Wales, & it was wonderful & gripping. Also, my mum went to school with Philip Madoc (Magua)& I'd been told he had a crush on her, so I had the additional weird feeling 'Hey, he could have been my dad!"
I'd move mountains to see it again, along with other classics from 1970-1982, like 'You Are There' (I know this was made earlier, but it aired in Wales in early 70s), 'Escape Into Night' (The stones with eyes!),'Mackenzie'(early Tracy Ullman, Lynda Bellingham drama)& "Two People" (the teenage romance, made in Britain, not listed on this site, which caused an uproar when aired in about 1980)

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