Archiving

[davemachin]

I think the Sex Pistols Today programme might not be complete, John. The Pistols bit looks broadcast quality whenever it's used but I've never seen anything to suggest the complete show exists. Malcolm McLaren was supposed to have recorded it on a Philips machine but don't know if he recorded the complete show. I can't see why he would want to really.

So the Today archive looks very incomplete. The good news is that it was reported on the Raiders of the Lost Archive thread that a complete Today from 1975 was recovered on Philips from David Hamilton's collection. So that is one whole show existing at least.

Dave

[davemachin]

One other point to yesterday's posting. Do any editions at all of the Today programme exist at the Thames archive? Has the Pistols footage that is usually used in programmes actually been obtained from Thames or somewhere else such as the B.F.I.? It was such a long running show and in a profile slot that it's very bad news indeed if no editions were saved by the company who made them. Does the same apply too to Thames News and Thames At Six which were the follow-ups?

Dave

[markboulton]

I've seen a couple of clip shows that, when they mention that Bill Grundy was a trained classical pianist, and that one day all their news items failed to go to air, he filled time by playing a piano that just conveniently happened to have been left in the studio. A clip is then shown taken off nth-generation domestic videocassette of Grundy doing exactly that.

So that's at least one other clip that exists.