Posted by Invid Fan on 07/16/06 17:07

In article <1153056663.768398.153580@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
unglued <dragonseed@spray.se> wrote:

> Invid Fan wrote:
> > In article <1152986278.376139.303380@s13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> > unglued <dragonseed@spray.se> wrote:
> >
> > > Invid Fan wrote:
> >
> > > > I thought he was saying that if nobody own a particular film, nobody
> > > > will have an interest in keeping a set of original prints or restoring
> > > > damaged ones. That's how films get lost.
> > >
> > > I don't understand that, producing a superior product that can command
> > > relatively
> > > high profits is always a going proposition on condition that the
> > > enhanced version is not ripped off but then we're talking about pirate
> > > copies.
> > >
> > I'm going to use a non-film example here. The BBC did not keep master
> > versions of any of their pre-1970's tv series. Due to union and
> > copyright rules they could only air an episode twice, after which it
> > was sold for international viewing and forgotten. Those syndicated film
> > prints of the episodes were often destroyed once they were no longer
> > needed: after all, the BBC had more copies, right? By the time anyone
> > really noticed over 100 episodes of Doctor Who, plus entire runs of
> > other series, no longer existed in any form.
> >
> > My point being, if no one owns a show there's a good chance the
> > original masters won't be preserved. Everyone will assume someone else
> > is doing it, so not spend the money to preserve or restore what they
> > have.
>
> The BBC did own the shows but they didn't have the foresight and
> business acumen
> to imagine a future mass-market for budget tv shows. They let the
> economists run the business with short term budget-year planning
> horisons, just like a lot of the Holywood studios.
>
Actually, from what I can gather it was a case of the BBC being a work
program. By not allowing re-airing of shows, the BBC had to produce two
or three times more episodes then they'd otherwise need. This provided
much more employment for actors and crew. The old episodes were never
going to be shown, so why save them?
> >
> > --
> > Chris Mack "Refugee, total shit. That's how I've always seen us.
> > 'Invid Fan' Not a help, you'll admit, to agreement between us."
> > -'Deal/No Deal', CHESS
>

--
Chris Mack "Refugee, total shit. That's how I've always seen us.
'Invid Fan' Not a help, you'll admit, to agreement between us."
-'Deal/No Deal', CHESS

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