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Surviving Audio from Lost TV Programs
The journal of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) in its FALL 2010 issue has a fascinating article about "television recordists," the amateur enthusiasts who, as early as the 1940s, modified TV sets and made reel-to-reel tape recordings of TV audio.
Author Phil Gries, of an organization called Archival Television Audio, Inc., identifies himself as one of these dedicated folks whose efforts resulted in pre-VCR preservation of the only known recordings (albeit audio only) of countless American television programs for which no other recordings exist.
Gries estimates that he has about 15,000 hours of material from 1946-1979 (he began making his own tapes as a 15-year old in 1958, and has since purchased and traded for additional tapes). Many samples are available to stream here.
I'll admit to having made a few similar recordings myself in the late 1970s (of the Gilligan's Island rescue TV movies and at least one annual broadcast of It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown). They're mainly of interest now for the local commercials contained within.
(Posted by Feliks Banel)
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