# 2026 ## April ### [30th April 2026](/news/20260430) Happy Thursday! 👋 Oh, wow, - it's been 16 years since Apple acquired Siri. 🤯 [![](/static/siri.jpg)](https://x.com/avstorm/status/2049225450535129181) It'll certainly be interesting to see what Apple announces at the upcoming WWDC! I also came across this awesome [gofundme project](https://www.gofundme.com/f/rescuing-the-past) today: > Your donations can help us to rescue rare films, audio tapes, and lost moments of Supermarionation history from vanishing forever. > > **WHO ARE WE?** > We're Century 21 Films, a UK independent production company, with a particular interest in archive film and television. Over the last decade our productions have included the ITV drama series Endeavour, Thunderbirds: The Anniversary Episodes, and Cartoon Carnival - a history of silent animation and the efforts to preserve it. > > Now, we are engaged on our own mission to rescue the past - but this time a different form of animation. Super Marionette Animation - or as it's better known "Supermarionation" – the production technique used to make the many 1960s Gerry & Sylvia Anderson television shows such as Stingray, Captain Scarlet & the Mysterons, and, of course, Thunderbirds. > > **ABOUT THE PROJECT:** > We've always been interested in preserving ephemera to do with these shows as part of our on-going work documenting the behind the scenes story for our many documentaries. However, over the last year this has accelerated at some considerable pace following the discovery by the family of Len Walter, the Supervising Editor on Thunderbirds, of 22 cans of 35mm film. After taking these films away, it turned out that these weren't ordinary prints of Thunderbirds, but specially struck prints used by the production team in the making of the series. Despite having been stored in a garden shed, we were able to recover excellent images from the prints, even though they were already suffering from Vinegar Syndrome - effectively the chemical breakdown of the film which eventually leaves just slush. > > From this collection, we recovered three episodes of Thunderbirds as alternative edits, including a rejected version of the second episode to enter production, "Pit of Peril", which had footage from Thunderbirds unseen in 60 years - the first "new" footage to appear from the series since it finished in the 1960s. This has now been cleaned and scanned in 4K, preserving it for future generations. > > > The resulting news coverage has led to an avalanche of other material being offered to us to investigate and we have now helped recover more missing items, including unbroadcast footage from Supercar, missing music by Barry Gray written for Thunderbirds and other shows, plus, previously unseen photographs, paperwork, and even original voice artist dialogue tracks extracted from the guard bands of old 1/4" tape with a specially modified tape deck. You can watch this great documentary on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUB3cq0ujiY): [![](/static/thunderbirds.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUB3cq0ujiY) If you can, please support the [gofundme project](https://www.gofundme.com/f/rescuing-the-past). --- **CorridorKey by LateNite v1.0.0 (Build 7)** is now up on TestFlight. It contains the following changes: **🔨 Improvements:** - Added the ability to load custom background colours and custom images into the Standalone Editor. - Cleaned up the launch screen on the Standalone Editor. - Opening Final Cut Pro from the Standalone Editor no longer quits the Standalone Editor. - **Spill Method** now defaults to **Ultra (Chroma Project)**. - Cleaned up the header section in the Final Cut Pro Effects Inspector to better match the Standalone Editor. - Improvements to the on-screen controls in Final Cut Pro. - Improvements to how we handle the colour space in Final Cut Pro, which improves the Apple Vision Framework Hint pipeline. This is still very much a work-in-progress, so ideas, feedback, comments and suggestions welcome! Once our fancy new icon is ready, we'll release on the Mac App Store. You can learn more on the [CorridorKey by LateNite website](https://corridorkeybylatenite.fcp.cafe). --- **KROCK.IO - Launcher v1.2** is out now. It includes the following changes: - FCP Compatibility: Full support for the latest Final Cut Pro update. - Ul Modernization: Fixed dependencies on legacy user interface libraries. - Resolved version-specific launch crashes. You can learn more and download on the [Mac App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/krock-io-launcher/id6747078342) --- **Doza Assist v3.1.0** is out now. > This release adds a built-in operating manual the local LLM consults on every clip-selection, narrative-ordering, and format-adaptation question — and fixes a long-running annoyance where the chat ignored explicit clip counts. You can find the full release notes on [GitHub](https://github.com/DozaVisuals/doza-assist/releases/tag/v3.1.0). You can download and learn more on [GitHub](https://github.com/DozaVisuals/doza-assist/). --- ## Discuss this page