http://cuttingsarchive.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=National_TV_archive_is_urged_by_film_instituteNational TV archive is urged by film institute - Revision history2026-04-19T22:53:03ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.33.0http://cuttingsarchive.org/index.php?title=National_TV_archive_is_urged_by_film_institute&diff=10990&oldid=prevJohn Lavalie: Created page with "{{article | publication = The Daily Telegraph | file = 1989-11-21 Daily Telegraph.jpg | px = 350 | height = | width = | date = 1989-11-21 | author = Jane Thynne | pages = 5..."2015-05-14T22:40:22Z<p>Created page with "{{article | publication = The Daily Telegraph | file = 1989-11-21 Daily Telegraph.jpg | px = 350 | height = | width = | date = 1989-11-21 | author = Jane Thynne | pages = 5..."</p>
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MANY of Britain's best loved television programmes, including Dixon of Dock Green and Dr Who, have been lost in the absence of a national television archive. The British Film Institute launched a campaign yesterday to amend the Broadcasting Bill to create an archive, to store old and new recordings, as well as search for television work that has disappeared.<br />
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It said that under the Bill, even programmes now preserved would be jeopardised. In the market-led environment, broadcasters may not take steps to keep programmes beyond their normal working life unless obliged to do so.<br />
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The institute wants the ITV companies to be forced to spend 0.05 per cent of their advertising revenue on an archive, which it would maintain.<br />
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Early television programmes were not recorded, and many films were destroyed and, later, video tapes recorded over.<br />
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No television record exists of the key parts of Mr Enoch Powell's famous "rivers of blood" speech, which were cut and thrown away because they were thought to be inflammatory.<br />
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Most of the BBC's 1969 moon landing programme was also destroyed, the institute said.<br />
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The call comes as the chances of archive material being rescreened are growing, with the advent of satellite television and the BBC's plans to show classic programmes on a subscription basis.<br />
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Only 30 out of 430 episodes of Dixon of Dock Green have survived, and the Turn of the Screw, the first full-length opera on ITV has been lost.<br />
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The programme in which Kenneth Tynan used a certain four-letter word for the first time on screen has vanished.<br />
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Only one or two examples still exist of Sunday Night at the London Palladium, The Quatermass Experiment, What's My Line? and Z Cars. <br />
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