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Post by dubs on Jun 12, 2004 14:53:34 GMT
Anyone know the archive status of this BBC2 Kenneth More serial, and what format (if any) ?
Kal 95 has no details.
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Post by David Brunt on Jun 12, 2004 15:00:21 GMT
Kal 97 lists it with all four episodes missing...
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Post by dubs on Jun 12, 2004 15:10:09 GMT
thanks David
Grrrrrrrrrrr...
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Post by Andrew Doherty on Jun 13, 2004 11:13:39 GMT
I remember watching this drama, which was based on a true WW2 story, and read that the person portrayed in this story had asked for the tapes to be wiped (not long after the broadcast).
This is the first time I had heard of such a situation and the following year (i.e. 1968) I wrote to the BBC about another drama and found out that they had "wiped" the tapes. Happily, I found out later that 35mm telerecordings of the drama were kept for preservation.
So, If there had been a much greater media fuss at the time a lot of programming could have been saved, although it still may not have prevented the BBC from acceding to this request.
Yours sincerely,
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Post by trevmds on Jun 14, 2004 8:43:45 GMT
Slightly off topic, this reminds me of reports in the early 80s that, as a condition of the Dennis Potter TV series "Pennies From Heaven" being made into a Hollywood movie with Steve Martin, the BBC was supposed to have agreed to wipe their master tapes. Luckily, this apparently was not the case, as it turned up again on TV in the 90s (it's the only Dennis Potter series I ever liked, too).
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Post by Ian Beard on Jun 14, 2004 9:06:00 GMT
There's a section in Kenneth More's autobiography about THE WHITE RABBIT - I don't have it to hand, but I think it was a project More himself suggested to the BBC. However. the film rights were already owned by someone else: the Beeb got the go-ahead to make the serial, but on the stipulation that it was only screened the once, (twice including the in-week repeat), and never sold aboard.
It's possible that there was a stipulation that the serial was then wiped, but it's equally a valid theory that it was kept, only to be caught up in the purges later.
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Post by William Martin on Jun 14, 2004 14:44:54 GMT
weren't there articles about this very subject in newspapers and magazines at the time probably about 67/68 and requests from public and eminent people not to wipe? as you say you wrote to the bbc yourself, so it's not a recent thing.
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Post by westy 2 on Jun 14, 2004 20:55:47 GMT
Why not just put a 'flag' on the material, saying 'Do not repeat' , or summat similar ?
No one should have the power to say, 'Please wipe it because of reason x or reason y'
That's just being selfish !
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Post by William Martin on Jun 16, 2004 14:50:20 GMT
Why not just put a 'flag' on the material, saying 'Do not repeat' , or summat similar ? No one should have the power to say, 'Please wipe it because of reason x or reason y' That's just being selfish ! this is one reason why I think that a fair amount of stuff was illegaly copied by bbc employees (1/2" video, TR e.tc) although only a small percentage of the total output I still think that there are choice episodes of various progs around in attics sheds etc, also I think it's highly likely that certain bbc people may have made deals with the land fill companies lorry drivers et.c to buy TR recordings |
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