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Missing 1933 Three Stooges film discovered in Australian garden shed

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it's unfortunate how little foresight movie and tv networks had in the past with regards to future demand for their shows / movies, and how little they cared about preseveration.

So many missing Dr. Who episodes and tons of other shows.

Missing movies due to inadequite redundancy on storage of negatives.

Also, just tons of missing football, baseball, basketball games, boxing matches, golf tourneys, etc...
 
Jadow said:
it's unfortunate how little foresight movie and tv networks had in the past with regards to future demand for their shows / movies, and how little they cared about preseveration.

So many missing Dr. Who episodes and tons of other shows.

Missing movies due to inadequite redundancy on storage of negatives.

Also, just tons of missing football, baseball, basketball games, boxing matches, golf tourneys, etc...
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Keep in mind that it was more difficult to archive stuff back in those days. 35mm film and Quad tape takes up a lot of space. Film and tape stock tend to degrade over time as well. Sometimes it was just lost because the studio needed more room for newer stuff and got rid of the older ones that seemed worthless.
 
Jadow said:
it's unfortunate how little foresight movie and tv networks had in the past with regards to future demand for their shows / movies, and how little they cared about preseveration.

So many missing Dr. Who episodes and tons of other shows.

Missing movies due to inadequite redundancy on storage of negatives.

Also, just tons of missing football, baseball, basketball games, boxing matches, golf tourneys, etc...
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Also keep in mind the entire industry came out of the live theatre industry.

As far as they were concerned they just did it in front of a camera instead of an audience.

They had much more of a "rehearse rehearse rehearse, do a good live show" mentality instead of the "just do retakes and cut it all together" mentality of today.
 
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I've been a big Stooges fan since the 70s. I would like to see this short but I am not expecting too much ... Ted Healy is in it ...
 
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Also keep in mind the entire industry came out of the live theatre industry.

As far as they were concerned they just did it in front of a camera instead of an audience.
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lol good point, what's the point in recording it if it's redone live.
 
mmntech said:
Keep in mind that it was more difficult to archive stuff back in those days. 35mm film and Quad tape takes up a lot of space. Film and tape stock tend to degrade over time as well. Sometimes it was just lost because the studio needed more room for newer stuff and got rid of the older ones that seemed worthless.
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I also think the popularity curve is a bit bimodal which makes archiving a difficult task. When stuff first comes out it is popular, it wains maybe even becomes unpopular and then some stuff regains popularity and maybe even becomes something considered culturally relevant in a way that is surprising.

If only 1% of TV from 2012 could be saved what would it be? In 2092 what are the odds we made the right call on what actually had long term resonance.

These days we are saving everything and I do wonder what, if any, impact that has on the longevity of things in the popular conscience.
 
And it was on nitrate film, which is mighty dangerous. I can't imagine what they had to go through to get it shipped back to the US.
 
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