Missing, Believed Wiped

Two sections of another 2003 BBC documentary about the act of wiping television programmes during the 1960s and 1970s, explaining why many such TV shows are lost today, and detailing the recovery of two long-lost 1969 episodes of Dad's Army, which were then cleaned up (digitally restored) and then transmitted straight after this documentary was shown.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• missing
• wiped
• videotape
• Quad
• Quadruplex
• Dad's
• Army
• Doctor
• Who
• Dixon
• of
• Dock
• Green
• Cars

[ryanbrownnew]

if rare film exists because it was duplicated for overseas distribution then you would think the BBC has some written record of where and when this took place and can track more episodes of this any many other programs using this as a starting point. The net needs to be wider. Who knows what missing BBC programs sit in the Australian film archives for example.

[AidanLunn]

@ryanbrownnew Many of those overseas sales records were destroyed as they were deemed of no further use - paper documents are worth even less than TV shows.

But those documents that do survive have been searched through, and those broadcasters nitpicked for material. What was recovered is all that hey held.

[AidanLunn]

@AidanLunn *they

[johnxgin1]

i have this on my dads army dvd boxset.

[AidanLunn]

@zxc911zxc What is wrong with mainstream media? Why do you want something that a large majority of people like to burn in hell? Unless you actually have some inferiority complex disorder that means that you want other people to suffer just because they enjoy something that you don't like.

[AidanLunn]

@zxc911zxc Says the half-wit who is complaining that "TV is for half-wits" while commenting on a clip from a TV show?

TV for half-wits? Have you not seen BBC Four?

[AidanLunn]

@zxc911zxc Actually, those vintage programmes such as the ones in the above clip are enjoyed by a large majority of people. While I accept that most of them are crap, they are *enjoyable* crap.

[hydna1968]

LOL I'm on this 11.58 secs in - thanks for posting still a good doc!

[AidanLunn]

@AgentProvocHollywood By Unions, the cost of videotape and the inability of human beings to predict the future.

Care to reconsider your rather shallow-minded and reactionary thought?