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Post by AlanJS on Sept 2, 2005 9:31:00 GMT
I happened to be visiting my parents in Devon a few weekends ago and watched a local news item concerning the much understaffed and underfunded South West Film Archive.
The feature was mainly a thinly veiled swipe at the lack of Government funding. Towards the end of the item they showed a 'room' stacked with unsorted film cans and tapes which had yet to be viewed !
It just goes to show that there are still areas of unsorted material even in local archives !
Alan S
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Post by ethantyler on Sept 2, 2005 13:34:10 GMT
I can't imagine there would be anything much of value in local archives. Maybe footage of value to the region or television archive, but nothing legendary. I could be wrong though.
However, discoveries like this do help to make future discoveries more hopeful.
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Post by Robbie on Sept 3, 2005 12:34:49 GMT
Apparently episodes of Doctor Who and Top Of The Pops were found at regional TV stations so there could be something there,stranger things have happened.
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Post by WilliamM on Sept 3, 2005 13:37:19 GMT
how many local tv archives are there in the UK?
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Post by Robbie on Sept 4, 2005 21:54:25 GMT
Between ITV and BBC there must be about 30
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Post by Matthew North on Sept 5, 2005 5:15:29 GMT
The south west one holds all regional ITV AND BBC film
most of it is well catalogued though.
Matt
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Post by Larry Dutch on Sept 5, 2005 11:52:18 GMT
Here's a good example, as many of you will know, from October last year of how something mis-catalogued at the South West archive turned up. www.bbc.co.uk/devon/news_features/2004/beatles.shtmlTook all of 40 years to find. Shows how often that particular film can marked 'sport' was opened up - never. Not a criticism of the staff there at all, just a good example of how material generically labelled is rarely looked at. Cheers LD |
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