As usual, a lot of ignorance about cinema aspect ratios is on display. Every Carry On film was shot open matte, i.e. the whole 35mm frame was exposed but all the essential action took place in the middle. In cinemas the film was projected through an aperture plate which cut off the unwanted top and bottom of the image and projected the rest onto the standard "wide screen" which was 1.75:1 in the UK. Wide screens (i.e. wider than the hitherto standard "Academy Ratio" of 1.37:1) arrived in UK cinemas in the middle of 1953 and could be various ratios but after the introduction of CinemaScope wide screen standardised on 1.75:1 (in the UK, in the US they adopted 1.85:1 which simply meant that a bit more of the top and bottom of the frame was choppped off) . A typical circuit cinema had two ratios available, 2.35:1 ("Scope") and 1.75:1 ("wide screen"). The screen was a fixed height, with variable side masking. No other ratios were in normal use for general releases and all talk of 1.66:1 being an original theatrical ratio is bunkum. On many 16x9 tv's discs presented at 1.66:1 actually fill the screen due to overscan. Hassan, Genevieve (13 March 2008). "Carry On script gets green light". BBC News . Retrieved 13 March 2008. Several other films were planned, scripted (or partly scripted) or entered pre-production before being abandoned: [11] [12] [13] Carry On Again Nurse [ edit ]

The Making of The Goodies Disaster Movie – Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd., London 1977. (First Sphere Books Ltd., London edition 1978) In the song Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others by The Smiths, one of the lines is "As Anthony said to Cleopatra, as he opened a crate of ale, oh, I say", making reference to Carry on Cleo.Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity again takes a hand as a 'sanitary engineer' named Marshal P. Knutt is mistaken for a law marshal. Being the conscientious sort, Marshal tries to help the town get rid of Rumpo, and a showdown is inevitable. Marshal has two aids - revenge-seeking Annie Oakley and his sanitary expertise. The men’s surgical ward of the Haven Hospital is staffed by an energetic nursing team under the watchful eye of Matron. Their suty time is taken up not only with nursing, but in attempting to control the riotous “shower” of patients who are always up to some prank or other. They also have to contend with the amorous advances of the patients! Carry On Teacher (1959) Carry On Dallas (1980), a spoof of the popular American soap opera Dallas was pursued in 1980. A script was written and casting offers made to Williams, Connor, Douglas, Sims, Windsor, Hawtrey and Dale. The production was abandoned when Dallas production company Lorimar Productions demanded a royalty fee of 20 times the total production budget. [12] The remainder of the series developed with increased use of the British comic traditions of music hall and bawdy seaside postcards. Many titles parodied more serious films, such as their tongue-in-cheek homages to James Bond ( Spying), westerns ( Cowboy), and Hammer horror films ( Screaming!). The most impressive of these was Carry On Cleo (1964), in which the budget-conscious production team made full use of some impressive sets that had been created in 1960 for the Burton and Taylor epic Cleopatra (1963) but abandoned when production moved to Rome. Carry On Emmannuelle, inspired by the soft-porn Emmanuelle, brought to an end the original Carry On run. Carry On Spaceman (1961), scripted by Norman Hudis and planned to be released shortly after Carry On Regardless. Satirising the Space Race, the cast was to consist of three would-be astronauts who constantly bungled on their training and their mission into outer space; most likely the trio would have been played by the trio of Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, and Leslie Phillips that had been established in Carry On Constable. Attempts to revive Carry On Spaceman in 1962 under Denis Gifford, again by Hudis, failed, and the project was subsequently abandoned.

Part of the issue was that in the era video tapes were very expensive (thousands of pounds per tape), so shows were wiped to allow the tapes to be reused. I read a story that Peter Cook begged the BBC to keep all the episodes of Not Only, But Also and even offered to pay them for the tapes, but they refused. The titles already out there are the more popular ones from Anglo-Amalgamated, before everything was sold and ownership became complicated. Britbox probably restored Khyber as it made the top 100 British films list, and renders it as a stand-alone look at times past. Other films they are eyeing up include The 39 Steps, which seems to point to them only working on British films of some importance. As for Camping, it's the archetypal Carry On film, being the go-to for the series and a logical selection for HD restoration. The first four films from the legendary Carry On… film series make their Blu-ray debut in this collector’s set

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Barraclough, Leo (16 May 2016). " 'Carry On' Comedy Movie Series to Be Revived". Variety . Retrieved 13 November 2016. The Carry On film series has had numerous individual releases on VHS, and a number of VHSs were released in an eighteen VHS box-set on 1 September 2003. [28] Speedee Taxis is a great success, which means its workaholic owner Charlie starts neglecting Peggy, his wife. Suddenly a fleet of rival taxis appears from nowhere and start pinching all the fares. The rivals are Glamcabs, and they have a secret weapon. All their drivers are very attractive women! Who's behind Glamcabs? It's open warfare and only one fleet can survive!