No relevant hits at the National Library of Scotland's Moving Image
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On 18 July 2018 at 17:31, Richard Scrase <
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> I'm really enjoying this thread and Jo has beat me to suggesting the
> British Library. Even if a search on their website does not show anything
> up I'd contact them anyway as they can often help.
>
> Richard Scrase FRGS
> Science Media Production
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>
> On Wednesday, 18 July 2018, 17:10:57 BST, Jo Brodie <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>
> Gosh, good luck finding the recording :)
>
> Some possibly useful things... although in this case I've drawn a blank on
> them so their use is probably limited to saying 'don't look there then' ;)
>
> 1. The *BBC's *excellent *Genome Project* website lets you wander around
> issues of the Radio Times published between 1923 and 2009. This lets you
> find out the time / date / channel that a particular programme was
> broadcast on, and repeats. I suppose it's possible that someone setting up
> their VHS to record a later or earlier programme might have captured a bit
> too, so it may be useful to know what preceded and followed the broadcast.
>
> The missing episode (according to your TV player thing
> <http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/1973/the-languages-of-animals/animal-language-human-language>),
> Ep 4 'Simple Signs and Complicated Communications', was broadcast on Wednesday
> 2nd January 1974 at 6.30pm on BBC 2
> <https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/2a7e33dee29a4aadad5e28dda3708498>. It
> appeared in issue 2615 of the Radio Times
> <https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1974-01-02> and was
> followed by Richie Havens in concert, a programme about a stuntman and the
> film *Marnie*. Here's similar info for Richard Gregory's "The Intelligent
> Eye"
> <https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?adv=0&q=Richard+Gregory+%22The+Intelligent+Eye%22&media=all&yf=1923&yt=2009&mf=1&mt=12&tf=00%3A00&tt=00%3A00#search>
> .
>
> 2. Given the subject matter might *university *linguistics departments
> have a copy?
>
> 3. The *British Library* has audio and moving image archives and this can
> be searched at http://explore.bl.uk - I searched for David Attenborough
> and restricted to stuff produced between 1966 and 1983
> <http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?ct=facet&fctN=facet_creationdate&fctV=%5b1966+TO+1983%5d&rfnGrp=1&rfnGrpCounter=1&frbg=&&vl(488279563UI0)=any&fn=search&indx=1&dscnt=0&scp.scps=scope%3A(BLCONTENT)&tb=t&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&ct=search&srt=rank&tab=local_tab&dum=true&vl(freeText0)=David%20Attenborough%20&dstmp=1531926477797>
> but it looks like they don't have a copy. Also the credits in the remaining
> programmes might suggest people to contact too I suppose.
>
> 4. More obliquely - I'm fairly sure I've seen snippets of David's Ri
> lecture embedded within other programmes. Possibly rights-clearance
> information would point to something although obviously it would be tiny
> fragments rather than what you're actually after.
>
> 5. Even more obliquely - Home Movie Day
> <http://www.centerforhomemovies.org/2018-hmd-locations/> - an event
> around the world where people attend community events and show old home
> movies. In London the Cinema Museum
> <http://www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2017/home-movie-day-2017/> hosts a day of
> films, tea and cake. It struck me that the sort of people interested in
> this might have been recorders of other things and possibly have dusty
> attics full of stuff.
>
> I also came across a photo of a flyer for the series
> <https://www.picclickimg.com/d/w1600/pict/163111348410_/AL580-Royal-Inst-Xmas-lectures-programmes-signed-inc.jpg>
> signed by David (via this page
> <https://picclick.co.uk/AL580-Royal-Inst-Xmas-lectures-programmes-signed-inc-163111348410.html>
> ).
>
> Best of luck :)
> Jo
> (psci-com owner)
>
> On 18 July 2018 at 15:49, Dominic McDonald <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Afternoon all (with apologies for cross-posting)
>
> A bit of a leftfield request, but we're hoping some bit of the hivemind
> might be able to help.
>
> Over the next 18 months or so the Ri will be uploading the complete back
> catalogue of our annual CHRISTMAS LECTURES, broadcast on the BBC, to our
> website. But 6 of the Lectures are missing, believed wiped...
>
> The highlights are one Lecture by Sir David Attenborough which hasn't been
> seen since it was first broadcast in 1973; and the entire series of six
> Lectures done in 1967 by the late great Richard Gregory, founder of the
> Exploratory in Bristol (which has evolved over the years into "We the
> Curious") and hence the great granddaddy of the UK's Science Centre sector.
>
> In September we'll be starting a media campaign to try and locate them,
> but a first step before then is to go direct to large institutional or
> personal film archives. So if anyone has an idea of the sort of places, in
> the UK or internationally, that might, just might, have a dusty old
> recording of a late 1960s / early 1970's science TV show, I'd be really
> interested to know about them please. We've already contacted the big ones
> listed below.
>
> Apart from the wonderful impact of finding some rare unseen footage of Sir
> David Attenborough, the CHRISTMAS LECTURES are a significant part of a rich
> heritage of science communication in the UK, so we're really keen to find
> them and make them available for new generations.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Dom
>
>
> Appendix: Film archives we're already in touch with:
>
> BFI
> Kaleidoscope (inc the estates of Bob Monkhouse, a prolific recorder of TV
> shows himself)
> British and International Societies for History of Science
> Big chat
> Archive records Association
> Museums Association
> London Screen archives
> Bell Laboratories
> From the archive (American)
>
> Dom McDonald
> Head of Education
> Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BS
> <https://maps.google.com/?q=21+Albemarle+Street,+London+W1S+4BS&entry=gmail&source=g>
> e: [log in to unmask]
> T: 020 7670 2966
> www.rigb.org
>
>
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