Unseen Thunderbirds films found in garden shed

Film cans containing unseen footage of the Thunderbirds TV amusement person been recovered successful a plot shed.

A household recovered the cans - light-tight containers utilized to enclose movie - successful a Buckinghamshire shed belonging to their father, who was an exertion connected the amusement and died recently.

Stephen La Rivière, from Century 21 Films which received the 22 aged cans, said they chiefly contained Thunderbirds worldly from the 1960s, including an alternate mentation of an occurrence that was ne'er broadcast.

It is hoped the footage - filmed connected the Slough Trading Estate successful Berkshire - tin beryllium shown to the nationalist arsenic portion of the series' 60th day adjacent year.

Mr La Rivière said helium was contacted by the household past year.

He said they were hard to place due to the fact that of their information but "clearly the bulk of it was Thunderbirds".

The lone mode to get a due look astatine the worldly was to transportation it to digital, and truthful began the "very, precise slow" process of scanning it.

"It took weeks, bit-by-bit," said Mr La Rivière.

"Every nighttime I'd get a nexus for a download of the latest 1 that had been scanned... you'd ne'er cognize what you'd get."

A batch of the worldly was the aforesaid arsenic what had been aired.

"Eventually, listening 1 night... this 1 played retired and it was not the aforesaid arsenic broadcast," Mr La Rivière said.

He said it turned retired to beryllium an alternate edit of an existing occurrence which had a antecedently unseen scene.

Mr La Rivière said the movie tin was damaged, exposing the contents to the elements, truthful determination was immoderate restoration enactment to bash connected the worldly first.

But past helium hoped it could beryllium shown to the nationalist successful 2025, aft 60 years of "lying astir waiting to beryllium discovered".