Do these series exist?

[cperry]

Yeh 1973 is about right, the NFTVA were offered the material in 1971, and negotiations opened then. They finally took some of it in 1972. Global carried on trading until 1976 but mainly to collect residual payments not for new sales.

c

[davemachin]

Thanks both for your replies, guys. It's shocking that the B.F.I. were offered all this late on but didn't want it. What were they thinking of? They do make a big play of talking about preserving our heritage blah blah but they had the chance to preserve even more of it and instead played god.

I was watching recently some of the German Beat Club series on dvd and wondered how it was that other countries had the foresight to keep the sort of things we deemed unimportant from the sixties? Crisp recordings looking like they were taped yesterday. Why couldn't we do the same? You could argue we didn't know it would later become valuable but that would have applied to the Beat Club producers as well, wouldn't it! Some things can be excused but if you look at all the Beatles' material missing as an example of things that were significant even then, other things can't be forgiven. You can't escape the conclusion that we've been let down in a big way by those in positions that count. This is an old topic that won't go away so i'll close now. Cheers anyway, all.

Dave