It's not just the BBC. The Dutch broadcasting compagny NOS deleated several interviews taken with a former minister president. These interviews could have shed some light on the thoughts etc back then but they just needed the tapes..Maarten

From: klfboy@hotmail.com> To: klf@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:29:57 +0000> Subject: RE: [KLF] BBC Worldwide joins the JAMs> > > One day BBC will probably wipe ALL the Peel Sessions, to make "place" for > taping the Take That reunion tour...> I'd never thought that they wanted to delete those classic Monty Python > scenes. I just can't believe it: they have thousands of rare footage (both > audio and visual), yet they release NOTHING, and if anybody shares a little > bit, they scream copyright infringement... If I only had one day to break > into BBC's Peel Session archive...> > > >> >Yes, Rob, I know they're on your server - but the point I was making was > >the BBC are notoriously bad at keeping things in their archive. A mpeg > >taken from a fifteen-year-old bootleg VHS video is one thing: but the BBC > >should, in theory, still have the original broadcast of IGUN on Top of the > >Pops somewhere in their archives - in pristine quality.> >> >Famously, the BBC used to reuse lots and lots of tape and film in the 1960s > >and 1970s, and classic early British TV comedy and drama (such as ly > >"Doctor Who" or that teleplay Bob Dylan was in before he became famous) > >were wiped and recycled for more "historically important" footage (local > >news and sporting events, usually). Even the mighty "Monty Python's Flying > >Circus" (series one) was due to be wiped, until retrieved at the last > >minute - so "Dead Parrot", "Nudge Nudge" and many classic sketches that > >have entered the English language might have been screened once, then - > >poof! - disappeared forever.> >> >Of course, the BBC have become more aware of this huge pissing away of > >their (and our) heritage over the years, and I think are now far more > >careful about what they discard. However, things do slip through the net. > >Comedian Stewart Lee claims that the programmes he did for BBC2 in the > >1990s (roughly 12 episodes of 30 minutes and 24 of 60 minutes) have been > >wiped. So it worries me that some of the classic old TOTP stuff might have > >gone too. I've seen the "Doctorin' the Tardis" appearance quite a few > >times, so I'm pretty sure it's "saved" - but I've never seen any of the > >later KLF stuff repeated (there's a dedicated TOTP archive show called > >"TOTP2").> >> >Incidentally, in the last ten years, the BBC have had a "drive" on to get > >people in their own homes to check their attics and see if there's any > >cannisters of film that might just have rare BBC programmes on them. Rare > >episodes of things like "Dad's Army" and "The Likely Lads" have turned up > >in Australia, for example. Now, some of these were genuine export copies - > >but a lot were actually filmed direct off the television with a cine-camera > >(or by using very primitive video recorders) back in the 1960s. And I > >could be wrong, but keeping collections of privately-taped television > >programmes or even just owning a motion picture reel, was technically > >illegal in the UK until well into the 1960s (I seem to remember something > >about a court case with comedian Bob Monkhouse - of all people - finally > >deciding the matter in favour of the amateur collector). So a lot of the > >great BBC archivists were actually breaking the law in the 1960s!> >> >Sorry if this is a ramble, Rob (and everyone else) but it's one of my > >bug-bears! :-)> >> >> > > Message Received: Feb 17 2007, 08:37 PM> > > From: "RMStringer" <RMStringer1971@comcast.net>> > > To: "'All bound for Mu-Mu Land.'" <klf@mailman.xmission.com>> > > Cc:> > > Subject: RE: [KLF] BBC Worldwide joins the JAMs> > >> > >> > > On my server I have all the videos.> > >> > > RMStringer> > > #################> > > "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,> > > anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." - Author Unknown> > >> > >> > > -----Original Message-----> > > From: klf-bounces+rmstringer1971=comcast.net@mailman.xmission.com> > > [mailto:klf-bounces+rmstringer1971=comcast.net@mailman.xmission.com] On> > > Behalf Of klfboy _> > > Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 1:10 PM> > > To: klf@mailman.xmission.com> > > Subject: RE: [KLF] BBC Worldwide joins the JAMs> > >> > >> > > >I wonder if they even have a first generation copy video of the JAMs > >IGUN> > > >performance still?> > >> > > Probably not, but they are ready tol kick anybody's ass who has...> > > Seems like BBC are trying to immanentize the Eschaton.> > >> > > _________________________________________________________________> > > Don't just search. 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