Discarded TV film was secretly salvaged from bins and skips by staff and contractors who worked at the BBC between 1967 and 1978, when the corporation had a policy of throwing out old reels.
Fact is, they’ll basically steal the reels back, which they forfeited ownership of when they threw them in the trash, throw the perpetrators in jail, remaster the episodes, and then push those episodes out in a box set so they can make a few dollars, while the people who preserved it, get nothing.
IMO, they should find a way to digitize and distribute them online to everyone. Fuck the BBC if this is how they treat people.
This explains the issue succinctly:
Of course, now today’s suits just see £££ signs.
Accurate.
Fact is, they’ll basically steal the reels back, which they forfeited ownership of when they threw them in the trash, throw the perpetrators in jail, remaster the episodes, and then push those episodes out in a box set so they can make a few dollars, while the people who preserved it, get nothing.
IMO, they should find a way to digitize and distribute them online to everyone. Fuck the BBC if this is how they treat people.