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'Plundering' the Archive and the Recurring Joys of Television

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dc.creatorKerrigan, Lisa
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-13T11:50:24Z
dc.date.available2020-08-13T11:50:24Z
dc.date.issued2015-12-30
dc.description.abstractAs we experience unprecedented access to archive material through online platforms and archive based productions, it is tempting to think that the appreciation of archive film and television material as a historical object in and of itself is a contemporary popular development. The growth of television archives within national institutions and broadcasting companies in the last thirty years, and the large number of missing programmes from earlier decades, seems to confirm the idea that television in the 1950s and 1960s was viewed and experienced as ephemeral. It is unusual then, to find a series devoted to archive television in the BBC2 Saturday night schedule in the mid 1960s. Plunder was billed as “a weekly raid on the BBC archives” and ran as part of the discussion series Late Night Line-Up from 1965–67. Largely showing excerpts from pre-1955 programmes, the series invited viewers to enjoy what presenter Michell Raper called ‘the vanished joys of television’ including interviews with notable figures and more formal fixtures of early television such as ‘interlude films’. This article will detail the use of archive footage within the series and consider the programme’s production and reception.en
dc.identifier.doi10.18146/2213-0969.2015.jethc088
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14126
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/15092
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNetherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
dc.publisher.placeHilversum
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0969
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectFernsehende
dc.subjectBBCen
dc.subjectArchiveen
dc.subjecttelerecordingen
dc.subjectoutside broadcasten
dc.subjectradioen
dc.subjecttelevision archivesen
dc.subjectartsen
dc.subject.ddcddc:070
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.title'Plundering' the Archive and the Recurring Joys of Televisionen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2021-05-29T06:08:24
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2015.jethc088
local.source.epage9
local.source.issue8
local.source.spage4
local.source.volume4

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