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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2011 8:38:49 GMT
I think Paul Cotton can be forgiven for what he says because he has repeated exactly what Steve Roberts and the DW Restoration Team have said on their website and used to say on their forum for over a decade. i.e. That until 1978 there was a Film Library and the Engineering Department looked after videotape, because until 1978 there was no mandate to keep a comprehensive archive. That was certainly what I believed. If indeed there was a combined, comprehensive Film & VT Library as far back as 1965, that renders most discussions about how such materials were handled as misleading at best, especially coming from other BBC insiders/experts. That's roughly how I understood it too, Mark. It's also my understanding that it was originally called the Film LIBRARY (as opposed to archive), purely for internal use / re-use - with no preservation agenda at all - and that the "and VT" bit came later, when they started to keep video under the same roof (which seems to have started in earnest around the mid to late '70s).
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