Mystery AtlasBBC Videotape Wiping Practice
A BBC archiving practice through the 1960s and into the 1970s of wiping or junking videotape and film recordings of broadcast programmes, driven by tape costs and storage space rather than any decision about a programme's value, which destroyed many episodes of shows including the first six years of Doctor Who; some episodes have since been recovered from overseas broadcasters and private recordings.
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Places
BBC Videotape Wiping Practice occurred in United Kingdom.
Concepts & Beliefs
BBC Videotape Wiping Practice is an instance of Lost Media.
Media Works
- London After Midnight (1927)released 1927; last known print destroyed 1965
BBC Videotape Wiping Practice is frequently compared to London After Midnight (1927) — The two most commonly cited exemplars of lost media, though one was a single work lost to fire and the other an institutional policy that destroyed many works systematically.