Originally Posted by Garry_Herring:
“From the footage shown on the programmes such as "Top Of The Pop2" and sounds of the sixties" there must be hundreds of hours of music footage in the vaults that never gets shown.
It's a shame because a lot of this could be sharpened up and released on DVDs. Would make a bit of money and be invaluable to music collectors.”
I'm not the keen TV pundit I once was sitting with the VCR primed in case someone I liked would appear on a kid's show or what not but clearly the lion's share of old music appearances never get rebroadcast and may not even exist in the networks' vault any more; much of it resides with collectors who have no commercial right to exploit it. The same handful of compilations seem to get repeated ad infinitum on our TV channels.
Unless a commercial opportunity is seen much of this archival content is unlikely to see any official recirculation and it's probably best to trawl the likes of You Tube for these semi-lost clips made available again by the fans. I've found music videos for tracks that I never thought had videos made and all sorts of foreign TV appearances and interviews that I'd never have seen at the time.
There was a time when such material was mostly traded by fans through the post and now it can be found and recorded relatively more easily.
