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Post by sonnybh on Oct 16, 2023 20:47:25 GMT
That sounds right, many studios didn't seem to regard their back catalogue highly. There was limited or no money to be made once a film had completed its initial release. Were there even events such as film festivals in those days? It was all about the next thing. In some ways more healthy than our rather backward looking society today? I wonder if this is why modern music, films and TV are so terrible? It was a similar attitude at the BBC & ITV companies, wiping & junking material when it was thought it no long had any value, before there was any home video or oldies channels as an outlet.
Ironically it seems that too many now ageing baby boomers seem to be playing the nostalgia card too much because they can't cope with how society has moved on from those days!
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Post by rmackenziefehr on Oct 17, 2023 1:19:48 GMT
That sounds right, many studios didn't seem to regard their back catalogue highly. There was limited or no money to be made once a film had completed its initial release. Were there even events such as film festivals in those days? It was all about the next thing. In some ways more healthy than our rather backward looking society today? I wonder if this is why modern music, films and TV are so terrible? It also should be noted that, with regards to the two-color Technicolor films, Technicolor was apparently shutting down the ability to make new prints in two-color Technicolor at the same time they were offering the negatives- which is not a situation that encourages picking up films that you wouldn't have been able to play back..... |
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Post by garygraham on Oct 17, 2023 13:57:28 GMT
There was limited or no money to be made once a film had completed its initial release. Were there even events such as film festivals in those days? It was all about the next thing. In some ways more healthy than our rather backward looking society today? I wonder if this is why modern music, films and TV are so terrible? It was a similar attitude at the BBC & ITV companies, wiping & junking material when it was thought it no long had any value, before there was any home video or oldies channels as an outlet.
Ironically it seems that too many now ageing baby boomers seem to be playing the nostalgia card too much because they can't cope with how society has moved on from those days!
I agree. There are a lot of posts on Facebook about how great life was in the 70s when they (we) were kids. Of course they didn't have a care in the world while mum and dad paid all the bills! But many of us grew up in homes without central heating in cities where the air was filled with smoke - indoors and out. Another myth is that there was no litter. Although we have challenges now, we live in amazing times. Fifty years ago, to print something, take a photograph, record audio or make a film was complicated and expensive if not completely impossible for most people. |
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Post by sonnybh on Oct 17, 2023 20:37:00 GMT
It was a similar attitude at the BBC & ITV companies, wiping & junking material when it was thought it no long had any value, before there was any home video or oldies channels as an outlet.
Ironically it seems that too many now ageing baby boomers seem to be playing the nostalgia card too much because they can't cope with how society has moved on from those days!
I agree. There are a lot of posts on Facebook about how great life was in the 70s when they (we) were kids. Of course they didn't have a care in the world while mum and dad paid all the bills! But many of us grew up in homes without central heating in cities where the air was filled with smoke - indoors and out. Another myth is that there was no litter. Although we have challenges now, we live in amazing times. Fifty years ago, to print something, take a photograph, record audio or make a film was complicated and expensive if not completely impossible for most people. Well said, my (sadly late) Dad was more than happy to embrace new technology if it made an improvement to his life. It was ironic that after he bought a CD player most of the discs he bought for it were of older music, but the only alternative was to buy second hand vinyl for many songs. Later on he downloaded a lot of MP3s, often burning them to CD in themed discs.
He would also point out that everything wasn't perfect in the recent past either!
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Post by brianfretwell on Oct 27, 2023 7:06:12 GMT
I seem to remember from the old RT site that it was a fire in a vault that held video masters for VHS releases, not the actual program masters, also that it was a minor fire and the main damage was from the sprinklers going off. Thinking again, it may not have been an actual fire but a false alarm activation setting the sprinklers off in one vault. |
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Post by sonnybh on Oct 27, 2023 20:53:58 GMT
The British and Dominions Imperial Studios archive in Elstree was destroyed by a fire in 1936, which caused the loss of some films. One being a 1923 adaptation of The Blue Lagoon.
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