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My last job when I was living in L.A. was as Security for WB Records Warehouse...If Universal doesn't have the same, they must really not care.Zoob
Judging by your account, Warners' reputation for outstanding DVDs (the only major studio to win awards usually given only to specialty outfits like Criterion), and my knowledge of the care and pride with which they handle their archive prints, I would say that you were working at the gold standard, Mr. Zoob.
Where most distributors would fax you a list of available prints (MAYbe), Warners sent a catalog that doubled as a coffee table book. Heck, they sent a representative to a local theater once! There was a lady in charge of their archive prints in 1998, still there by 2006. Longevity suggests pride and loyalty. Corporate cultures differ greatly, and Warner Brothers clearly cares a great deal about their stuff.
Not to necessarily defend Universal, but . . . you worked in Eden. Even the best place visited after must seem irresponsible by comparrison.
David
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I am only passing on another rumor that comes from a guy who posts at Home Theater Forum under the moniker "Hank Dearborn" but if what he says is true, then the worst fears I have had regarding the future of Universal's Classic TV archive in upcoming DVD releases is being borne out.
"I am talking to some of my inside sources and this is way worse than Universal is telling anyone. They are really spinning this big time. Anything that they had 2-inch masters on, those are gone forever. For instance, the show Don Adams Screen Test, gone. Any specials, such as the Herb Alpert one, that they had a 2-inch tape on, gone. As for filmed TV shows, all of the transferred videotape masters are gone. Yes, they still have the original film elements but considering their astronomical in-house costs, are they really going to bother with many of these shows? I doubt it. So companies that are relying on existing tapes for their releases like Shout, Timeless and Arts Alliance could be out of luck.
"As for the music that was lost, which is also being covered up, such things as The Carpenters unreleased recordings all burned up. Right now Universal is reporting it their way but as the artists start to find out about their recordings being destroyed you are going to hear it."
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Good news- I thought that set was destroyed
Eric, while i am sad that ANY program has been lost, DON ADAMS SCREEN TEST is not going to cause me to shed any tears (and I am a big, big big, DA fan)
brm
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I have the pilot show for that series, and it is a riot though. Someone at the game show forum I'm with later chimed in and noted that UCLA has their own copies of it, so it isn't a lost show after all.
But regardless of how obscure it is, it's still important to make sure that all forms of TV programming are documented in a way to safeguard against these kinds of things.
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I have the pilot show for that series, and it is a riot though. Someone at the game show forum I'm with later chimed in and noted that UCLA has their own copies of it, so it isn't a lost show after all.
But regardless of how obscure it is, it's still important to make sure that all forms of TV programming are documented in a way to safeguard against these kinds of things.
Maybe the pilot was a riot, but I remember that show as being a turkey.
Oh well.
I would give that compliment to THE PARTNERS a sadly neglected comic gem from Don Adams>
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I had a feeling they were downplaying it at the time. Thanks for posting the article.
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Thankfully no Universal Studios film scoring elements were in that building but it did affect MCA Records masters and in particular re-recordings would have been compromised. That's why we got 1/4" tapes from the U.K. for Jaws, E.T., Dracula and Monsignor.
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Mike, that's a sight of relief.
But I still feel awful about the rest of the lost material.
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I had a feeling they were downplaying it at the time. Thanks for posting the article.
Shades of the USSR
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