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Post by John Green on Jun 12, 2024 19:26:25 GMT
"...I'm not sure that the modern Disney corporation still maintains its archive in Burbank. During my time visiting it in the 1980s, it went from a large air-conditioned office on the Studio lot, to a series of hot trailers parked way in the back. And I've heard (but can't vouch for) rumors that it's been completely cleared out. Maybe that's because everything is digital now, but also maybe it's because the modern Disney Corporation doesn't care about their non-film heritage anymore. After all, the comics are no longer the cash cow they once were when Walt Disney's Comics & Stories sold more then five million copies a month in the early 1950s, and the various European Disney publishers combined through the early 2000s sold almost that many millions per week. Well, there you are: The corporate mindset that since there's no money right this minute in preserving something that may be of value in the future, we don't want to spend money on it now. I could fill this blog for years with horror stories that have been told to me from folks who are charged with selling old movies and TV shows for home video and streaming. One told me once that the answer to the question "Why isn't this old TV series being rerun or sold on DVD?" is too often because they can't find decent prints and maybe that someone is reticent to invest in restoration of what they do have. (Byron Erickson quoted here: www.newsfromme.com/ ). What chance has the Southern TV archive? |
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Post by Peter Stirling on Jun 13, 2024 10:59:24 GMT
"...I'm not sure that the modern Disney corporation still maintains its archive in Burbank. During my time visiting it in the 1980s, it went from a large air-conditioned office on the Studio lot, to a series of hot trailers parked way in the back. And I've heard (but can't vouch for) rumors that it's been completely cleared out. Maybe that's because everything is digital now, but also maybe it's because the modern Disney Corporation doesn't care about their non-film heritage anymore. After all, the comics are no longer the cash cow they once were when Walt Disney's Comics & Stories sold more then five million copies a month in the early 1950s, and the various European Disney publishers combined through the early 2000s sold almost that many millions per week. Well, there you are: The corporate mindset that since there's no money right this minute in preserving something that may be of value in the future, we don't want to spend money on it now. I could fill this blog for years with horror stories that have been told to me from folks who are charged with selling old movies and TV shows for home video and streaming. One told me once that the answer to the question "Why isn't this old TV series being rerun or sold on DVD?" is too often because they can't find decent prints and maybe that someone is reticent to invest in restoration of what they do have. (Byron Erickson quoted here: www.newsfromme.com/ ). What chance has the Southern TV archive? When Disney took over the Southern archive they wanted it for stuff like 'Fraggle Rock' a kids' show that had international credentials and was probably ready to go in different TV standards. The stuff that was too British and in old formats they just discarded, TPTV now has what survived but the chance of seeing stuff like 'A Tale of two rivers' a pop special videotaped on a boat in 1966 are non non-existent probably. |
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Post by Geoff Sear on Jun 25, 2024 11:27:21 GMT
It's TVS that got eaten by the Mouse, not Southern.
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Post by Mark Tinkler on Jun 25, 2024 13:38:35 GMT
...which is why Talking Pictures TV shows progs like Worzel Gummidge in the UK as they own the Southern TV Archive (Renown Pictures is one of their partner companies)
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Post by peterleslie on Jun 25, 2024 16:22:53 GMT
...which is why Talking Pictures TV shows progs like Worzel Gummidge in the UK as they own the Southern TV Archive (Renown Pictures is one of their partner companies) ... except Renown don't actually own 'Worzel Gummidge', nor indeed 'Out of Town' - they have licenced both like they licence other production company programmes (or a few other Southern productions e.g. Enid Blyton's Famous Five and Winston Churchill The Wilderness Years ... or Southern's music output - which is at 'Eurorarts' ... or their regional archive which is held by 'Wessex') as they were not included as part of the Southern legacy archive - either sold off or part of co-producers rights |
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Post by John Green on Jun 25, 2024 17:21:15 GMT
It's TVS that got eaten by the Mouse, not Southern. Quite right. I left Southampton in the 70s, so didn't have much experience of TVS. |
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