I also telephone the BBC way back then to ask if I could have a copy of the programme on tape. I was politely told then that my request would be impossible to fulfil as they didn't issue tapes commercially (then) and that after archiving for a while the original tape may be reused!!
the 2 inch or 1 inch videotape transfer is probably gone/wiped, BUT the original film master is probably stored at the National Film & TV Archive in London(along with many other GEMS like The Spy Who Loved Me Open Unversity Documentaries).
my goodness that's how they wrote music before samplers came along? Williams is the real deal I think I now understand why older filmmusic geeks heap so much shit onto compsoers that simply sit at their keyboards pushing buttons and calling that writing instead of putting it on paper
Goldsmith used samplers and computers to write for years, maybe decades.
I was under the impression that was only to demo the music for the director. In his documentary DVD there is still footage of him writing on score sheet at every stage in his career, up until the 1994 date of the doc's production. After that, from what I read and according to Joe Dante, Verhoeven and others, Goldsmith still composed on paper, programmed this into computer and then could sync the demo to picture for the director.
Apparently this marvellous documentary is still in BBC archives in pristine quality because snippets have been used in 2013 BBC documentary Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies (begins at 50:52)
