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Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Last June, fans of Comedy Central – the long-running channel behind beloved programmes such as The Daily Show and South Park – received an unwelcome surprise. Paramount Global, Comedy Central’s parent company, unceremoniously purged the vast repository of video content on the channel’s website, which dated back to the late 1990s.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I’ve looked around quite a bit for The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. No one seems to have the complete series. The show ran nightly for 30 years and amassed 6714 episodes so it would be quite a large torrent.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's likely that most episodes aired before the dawn of home video recording (early 80s) are completely lost media. NBC and other networks weren't in the habit of archiving tape-to-air media.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Ahhhh this is an absolute tragedy. The same thing goes with many movies from the golden age of Hollywood. I love to watch these old films. It breaks my heart that so many are lost forever.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Most of the episodes aired before at-home VHS was common, and TV stations weren’t in the habit of archiving their old footage for nightly broadcasts; The show was viewed as transient since it dealt with current events, and nobody expected people to want to re-watch old episodes. It’s likely that a lot of them aren’t available simply because nobody (including the tv station) has recordings.