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Post by Robert Lia on Feb 12, 2014 21:41:41 GMT
And being military I can also add that just because they let you into the station, talk with you and say they even allow you to go threw the archive of old material in the basement and say you find "Revenge of the Gargle blasters" Part 4. That does not give you the permission to simply walk out with the print.
Then you would need to notify the proper authorities at AFRTS BC center as they actually own the physical print. and start a long bureaucratic government process as that film print be it obsolete is still no doubt on some inventory list that gets checked once a year and when things go missing from the inventory list. Alarm bells go off, even if they don't know wants missing.
As an example at the Department of Veterans Affair's hospital I work at we were clearing out an old cupboard about 5 years ago and found a card reader (sort of like the things that we used to use to swipe your VISA and MASTERCHARGE cards back in the 1970's that made carbon copy of the cards date).
The supervisor wanted me to throw it out as it was 30 years out of use but I said no its portably on an inventory list some where. Well we kept it and would you know it two weeks later when they did the annual wall to wall inventory they came looking for it cause it was still on the inventory list. Once they checked it off they wont bother with it till next years inventory. . .
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Post by jakeswitzer97 on Sept 16, 2018 21:18:41 GMT
4 years on, did anything come from this? Probably not, but I bet it would've been fun going on a missing episode hunt.
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Post by Robert Lia on Sept 17, 2018 21:05:53 GMT
Cant speak for South Korea but I crawled around the former US Military bases in the Philippines back in 2013 and 2014 and came up empty.
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Post by Greg Glenn on Sept 18, 2018 13:30:21 GMT
Zero, zilch, nada. Several emails to various pepole within the current DoD television-radio infrastructure were unanswered. I did find a large number of 16mm and 35mm reels outside the AFRTS system in Seoul. Most if not all of these were of American origin. And I found a comlplete print of a Korean film which the National Archive already held - wouldn't you know it. It's amazing how many post 1953 films are missing in that country, even films from the 80s.
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Post by Richard Marple on Sept 18, 2018 16:03:59 GMT
Zero, zilch, nada. Several emails to various pepole within the current DoD television-radio infrastructure were unanswered. I did find a large number of 16mm and 35mm reels outside the AFRTS system in Seoul. Most if not all of these were of American origin. And I found a comlplete print of a Korean film which the National Archive already held - wouldn't you know it. It's amazing how many post 1953 films are missing in that country, even films from the 80s. I wouldn't be surprised some films have "gone missing" due to their content, South Korea only became a democracy in the 1980s.
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Post by Mark Tinkler on Sept 18, 2018 16:35:49 GMT
If you want to see a film that will make you weep with scenes of rotting film vaults just lying there with no power, with racks full of film & no-one looking after them, check out Cinema Komunisto (2011) on the former Yugoslavian film industry... Great documentary as well.
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Post by Robert Lia on Sept 18, 2018 23:10:41 GMT
When President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines declared martial law in 1971 he shut down many television stations at the time that had spoke against him (along with newspapers) and the video tapes and films in those stations were also lost at the time
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Post by Charles Daniels on Sept 19, 2018 7:57:52 GMT
If you want to see a film that will make you weep with scenes of rotting film vaults just lying there with no power, with racks full of film & no-one looking after them, check out Cinema Komunisto (2011) on the former Yugoslavian film industry... Great documentary as well. I remember once seeing footage of the Iranian Cultural Revolution, and there were HILLS, literal man made hills of video tape and film, which were set on fire.
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