Post by John Green on Nov 3, 2015 19:04:07 GMT
It's not just old telly that went uncatalogued for decades,then:
It is understood to have been donated to the extensive archive in the early 80s, as part of a collection of film stock from a closing Soho laboratory.
No-one, however, noticed its significance, and it was entered into the archive’s database and left before anyone realised it was the only surviving copy in the world.
Earlier this year, an American researcher, who was looking for lost titles, typed the name of the film into a new online database at the BFI, and was astonished to find it was in its stocks.
The long-lost film, the last surviving record of Sleigh Bells, will now show Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in all his glory.
It is understood to have been donated to the extensive archive in the early 80s, as part of a collection of film stock from a closing Soho laboratory.
No-one, however, noticed its significance, and it was entered into the archive’s database and left before anyone realised it was the only surviving copy in the world.
Earlier this year, an American researcher, who was looking for lost titles, typed the name of the film into a new online database at the BFI, and was astonished to find it was in its stocks.
The long-lost film, the last surviving record of Sleigh Bells, will now show Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in all his glory.
