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.On Wednesday, 18 July 2018, 17:10:57 BST, Jo Brodie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:(psci-com owner)Jo1. 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.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' ;)The missing episode (according to your TV player thing), Ep 4 'Simple Signs and Complicated Communications', was broadcast on Wednesday 2nd January 1974 at 6.30pm on BBC 2. It appeared in issue 2615 of the Radio Times 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".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 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 - an event around the world where people attend community events and show old home movies. In London the Cinema Museum 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 signed by David (via this page).Best of luck :)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
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T: 020 7670 2966
www.rigb.org
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