Post by Ronnie McDevitt on May 2, 2024 14:07:04 GMT
Rather than do an Angel and resurrect a nine year old thread, the link is here for anyone who wishes to trawl through the full six pages - missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/10994/softly-episode-recovery-recovered
The point of the thread was to highlight the auction of a print of Recovery (believed lost), which prompted the response that a digital copy had been with the BBC for some time but not catalogued.
I note that Lost Shows no longer has the recently returned third seasons The Good Girl listed as missing. However Recovery still shows as lost.
This is the most relevant entry from Paul Vanezis on page 3, hinting that the situation was well in hand.
Further down there is a suggestion it would be available for screening at the forthcoming Missing Believed Wiped event.
OK. Now something has happened which does at least bring some happy closure to this sorry state of affairs. I've just taken a call from someone who used to work at the BBC. Fifteen years ago he transferred an episode of 'Softly, Softly' to digi-beta which was from a collector. He still has the tape and it is the episode 'Recovery'. The tape will be properly catalogued and in the BBC archive later this week and it's only an oversight that it hasn't already happened.
I think this highlights several points. Firstly, this material doesn't just magic itself out of thin air. It was offered for sale 15 years ago for £50 and nobody purchased it because it was way over priced then. Any film that turns up now could well have been transferred previously. When people try and profit from such things, stuff like this can happen and bite them on the arse.
Of course, I'm sure that the BBC would love to get the original film recording back, but the digi-beta was made fifteen years ago, before the film changed hands several times and before it was slapped on projectors of various sorts, so in all likelihood it is a superior copy. Nevertheless, it is safe. Regards, Paul
Do we know if the episode is indeed archived or was there a further issue?
Does anyone recall if it was shown at Missing Believed Wiped 2015?
It may be that Lost Shows just did not get around to updating the shows status.
The point of the thread was to highlight the auction of a print of Recovery (believed lost), which prompted the response that a digital copy had been with the BBC for some time but not catalogued.
I note that Lost Shows no longer has the recently returned third seasons The Good Girl listed as missing. However Recovery still shows as lost.
This is the most relevant entry from Paul Vanezis on page 3, hinting that the situation was well in hand.
Further down there is a suggestion it would be available for screening at the forthcoming Missing Believed Wiped event.
OK. Now something has happened which does at least bring some happy closure to this sorry state of affairs. I've just taken a call from someone who used to work at the BBC. Fifteen years ago he transferred an episode of 'Softly, Softly' to digi-beta which was from a collector. He still has the tape and it is the episode 'Recovery'. The tape will be properly catalogued and in the BBC archive later this week and it's only an oversight that it hasn't already happened.
I think this highlights several points. Firstly, this material doesn't just magic itself out of thin air. It was offered for sale 15 years ago for £50 and nobody purchased it because it was way over priced then. Any film that turns up now could well have been transferred previously. When people try and profit from such things, stuff like this can happen and bite them on the arse.
Of course, I'm sure that the BBC would love to get the original film recording back, but the digi-beta was made fifteen years ago, before the film changed hands several times and before it was slapped on projectors of various sorts, so in all likelihood it is a superior copy. Nevertheless, it is safe. Regards, Paul
Do we know if the episode is indeed archived or was there a further issue?
Does anyone recall if it was shown at Missing Believed Wiped 2015?
It may be that Lost Shows just did not get around to updating the shows status.
