RWels
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Post by RWels on May 16, 2014 23:10:41 GMT
There's an interesting article in today's Guardian concerning the recovery of a couple of "lost" short films by Peter Sellers. They were rescued from a skip after having spent years in a cleaners' cupboard in a London office block. The guy who recovered them had initially thought the canisters contained the pads for the floor cleaning machines. Who knows what else is still out there! And possibly nearer than we think. The article is very good on lost films in general and particularly concerning the idea of how do you prove a negative? And the moral is, obviously, never give up hope! They were found last century so I wouldn't call it "news" in the most literal sense. Also, I've heard that the LoC has had copies of the same Sellers films since before that, but nobody cared to request them...
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