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Title: M & W 1968
Post by Administrator on Dec 31^st, 2017, 10:37am

If you worked on The Morecambe and Wise Shows in 1968 and have an immaculate version of any of them hidden in your attic or shed, please don't tell BBC R&D Department..

Read here, how much time, effort, computer programing, and innovation has gone into rescuing an early M&W transmission.

A 16mm monochrome print was located in the heart of Nigeria in 2012.

"Television archiving expert Charles Norton writes about his involvement with the work in the first of this three part series."

The item is entitled "You can't see the join", however in this case, you probably will, in a few years' time.