OK, it's not a TV find but, golly this is good news

[Mark Fowler]

Apologies if this has been posted before, I tried to find if someone else had mentioned it before posting...but news that a long lost Betty Balfour silent has been found.

www.theguardian.com/film/2014/apr/03/lost-silent-film-love-life-and-laughter-dutch-archive-bfi

[Mark P]

The find was reported on various websites

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26848905
news.sky.com/story/1236302/long-lost-silent-film-found-in-disused-cinema
www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/announcements/lost-british-silent-masterpiece-rediscovered-holland

Including the Daily Mail which we have been asked not to post links to.

[Greg H]

Now there's a forum policy I can really warm to Not acknowledging the daily fail exists

I heard this excellent news a little while back. It is always happy days for me when silent cinema returns; Some silent material is over 100 years old which makes it a very real window back into times that no one living was around for (pretty much).

[John Green]

Not to mention: missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/9870/another-film-bfis-most-wanted

And: missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/9871/netherlands

I was a regular contributor to the Guardian on-line.Got suspended (again) for questioning the reliability of United Nations statistics.I'm now,apparently permanently persona non grata.I think the paper's 'liberalism' would be unrecognisable to many of its most famous former journalists.
At intervals,I marvel at the Mail's investigative journalism,not least in family law.

[Mark P]

The Mod's request not to have DM links was here

www.missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/9841/beeb-bans-aint-half-next?page=1

[John Green]

Apr 13, 2014 15:59:55 GMT Mark P said:

The Mod's request not to have DM links was here

www.missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/9841/beeb-bans-aint-half-next?page=1

I didn't say it wasn't Paul.

As regards O/T postings about finds in other fields-and I think I do it as many times as anyone-who'd not find them interesting? I love warehouse finds,discoveries in grand-dad's old tin chest...