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Post by John Andersen on Jan 27, 2012 23:08:28 GMT
The archive in Singapore has probably been checked - but I'm sure someone will confirm. If it's subsequently been digitised then I'd say it's a dry hole. Oh, no. That is not good to hear. With Africa gone and Australia and New Zealand supposedly searched already, Asia was our last chance to hopefully find some Patrick Troughton episodes.
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Post by Jon Preddle on Jan 27, 2012 23:18:31 GMT
The archive in Singapore has probably been checked . The term archive often gets used too generically. There is a significant difference between an archive and a film store. A film archive by its very nature and definition of the word infers a deliberate effort to preserve and record. Whereas a film store is just that - a room where film is kept. Most of the world's film archives have been checked, as there would be clear catalogues and records of what is held. A film store probably less so. There are probably not that many still around; excepting of course those of a private nature.
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Post by Greg H on Jan 27, 2012 23:22:53 GMT
I wouldn't say our last chance as such; theres always the sloppy but real chance of more off air recordings surfacing. People were taping television at home in the 60s, its just infernaly hard to find out who they were!!
(and of course theres always the remote possibility of a film can stuffed down the back of a filing cabinet scenario as occured at the BBC; also staff who took cans home as has happened in the UK)
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Post by John Green on Jan 28, 2012 0:30:53 GMT
As far as the difference between a storage facility and an archive goes,I suppose the former would have films kept ready for use,but with the latter,the emphasis is on conservation-keeping items from harm and endeavoring to improve their condition. At least,that's the theory. I'd like to think an amateur collector would do both.
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