AW: AW: HW Video Footage

[Nick Lee]

>
>IIRC I read something about their "lost" footage in the SFX magazine
>some time ago (in an Dr. Who article :-). The article stated that BBC's
>film archive burned down some years ago and with it most of its
>content. I can't believe that the BBC throws away any archive
>material intentionally.


The BBC, not realising the future value of such material, did indeed destroy
large quantities of black and white footage, quite deliberately.  Quite a
large amount of colour footage was also destroyed.  In more recent years
they have put a lot of effort into replacing such material, often by
re-acquiring it from overseas sales.  Both colour and b/w Dr. Who was lost
this way.  The BBC not so long showed a season of 'lost' Steptoe & Son
episodes which had been re-discovered.

Nick