17 Sep
2019
17 Sep
'19
1:46 p.m.
On Tue, 17 Sep 2019, Peter Jeremy wrote:
On 2019-Sep-16 15:48:36 -0600, "Nelson H. F.
Beebe" <beebe(a)math.utah.edu> wrote:
Toei Animation wiped the audio masters for Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z.
What remains is low-quality optical audio from film prints. (They did the
same for Dragon Ball GT but some TV stations managed to preserve the
audio, so it's not as much of a problem as it is for the previous series.)
-uso.
I came across an article today about another
major industry that has
been exceedingly careless about preserving its history:
Wipe Out: When the BBC Kept Erasing Its Own History
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/wipe-out-when-the-bbc-kept-erasing-its-o…
It is a must-read for Dr Who fans on this list.
It didn't only affect TV, much of The Goons originals were also destroyed (at least
one episode now sold by the BBC is an off-air recording by a fan because that's the
best extant copy).
And NASA destroyed the tapes holding the original Apollo 11 moonwalk
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes)