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Post by Scott J. on Oct 6, 2005 19:53:54 GMT
When the orders came to junk or dispose of the unwanted material was their a set group of engineers or workers assigned to oversee their destruction?
Were these workers always the same people, or were they just random people from all over the BBC? If not then does anyone have a list of these engineers, because they were possibly in the best position to take missing material or at least know others who might have taken material.
Has this avenue been fully explored, wasn't this similar to how DMP2 was returned?
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Post by Richard Bignell on Oct 6, 2005 20:27:18 GMT
wasn't this similar to how DMP2 was returned? Not really. The telerecording (amongst others) was in a room the BBC used for testing projection equipment. Francis Watson was asked to clear the room out and throw the junk away, which he did, but he retained the two Doctor Who film prints. Richard
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Post by Scott J. on Oct 6, 2005 20:30:24 GMT
wasn't this similar to how DMP2 was returned? Not really. The telerecording (amongst others) was in a room the BBC used for testing projection equipment. Francis Watson was asked to clear the room out and throw the junk away, which he did, but he retained the two Doctor Who film prints. Richard Well have the engineers at the time been contacted or anything?
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Post by Lance on Oct 6, 2005 20:34:32 GMT
If you have ever worked in large organisation, then the rules are the same as the BBC. People get moved round, fired etc. If your employed to do a project and they give their warehouse, office etc and its full of the previous projects stuff what do you do? you make reasonable enquiries to get it returned, but there comes a point when you need the space yourself and somebody under pressure just says "bin it"
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Post by ethantyler on Oct 7, 2005 0:00:40 GMT
Not really. The telerecording (amongst others) was in a room the BBC used for testing projection equipment. Francis Watson was asked to clear the room out and throw the junk away, which he did, but he retained the two Doctor Who film prints. Richard Well have the engineers at the time been contacted or anything? "Hello. You worked for us during the seventies. Did you steal any films we aksed you to throw away?" "No!"
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Post by LanceM on Oct 7, 2005 2:02:38 GMT
Hello,
Or rather did the BBC keep records of the junking team personell log ? And if so, do they still posess any such material?
Lance.
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Post by William Horner on Oct 7, 2005 2:27:42 GMT
Hello, Or rather did the BBC keep records of the junking team personell log ? And if so, do they still posess any such material? Lance. "Junking team" What "junking team?" Bill
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Post by LanceM on Oct 7, 2005 3:02:46 GMT
I have read on the net that is what the people who worked on the junking process were refered to as the junking team. Can anyone shed some light on this subject?
Lance.
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Post by Scott J. on Oct 7, 2005 6:09:38 GMT
Well have the engineers at the time been contacted or anything? "Hello. You worked for us during the seventies. Did you steal any films we aksed you to throw away?" "No!" Not in that way, but that is kind of what I am asking, if anything was to be taken they would have been in the best position to hav taken it or at least now people who may have taken material.
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Post by Gary C on Oct 7, 2005 7:35:55 GMT
I worked in the VT Library at TVC in the 80's and part of my job (about once very six weeks) was to wipe & re-use 1" tape. We had prints of all tapes to be wiped, and which to be kept. There was never a 'junking team' when I was there, we all just took it in turns. And before you ALL ask, no-one that I know of (about 25 people) were ever minutely thought of taking stuff home instead of wiping it.
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Post by Richard Bignell on Oct 7, 2005 9:06:45 GMT
I have read on the net that is what the people who worked on the junking process were refered to as the junking team. The simple answer is Lance, you shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet! One of the great downfalls of the world wide web that that there is a *vast* amount of nonsense floating around and after a while, it gets hard to distinguish the fact from the fiction. So no, there wasn't any "junking team". Richard
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Post by Scott J on Oct 7, 2005 11:35:33 GMT
I have read on the net that is what the people who worked on the junking process were refered to as the junking team. The simple answer is Lance, you shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet! One of the great downfalls of the world wide web that that there is a *vast* amount of nonsense floating around and after a while, it gets hard to distinguish the fact from the fiction. So no, there wasn't any "junking team". Richard So just random BBC workers were told to junk/destory/wipe material. Have these workers been contacted or anything?
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Post by John Stanley Miller on Oct 7, 2005 11:45:05 GMT
I think Andrew Martin used to junk episodes?
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Post by Richard Bignell on Oct 7, 2005 11:49:26 GMT
Have these workers been contacted or anything? No, of course not! Nobody has a clue who they were! The only people who might possibily know would be the BBC, but as any HR department in any company will tell you, personnel information is *highly* confidential and isn't usually shared by people within a company, let alone outside of it. Even if the information was available, the BBC wouldn't exactly deem it to be a worthwhile exercise to track down the details of the hundreds and hundreds of Enterprises employees from 35 years ago on the vague off-chance that one of them might be willing to own up to theft! Richard
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Post by Richard Bignell on Oct 7, 2005 11:49:57 GMT
I think Andrew Martin used to junk episodes? No he didn't. Richard
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