Very true, Kirby! But that was not my question.

Wim, I was not counting made for TV. I think the reason so many of those
were lost is that they simply re-used the tapes (you could record right
over the last recording), so it saved lots of money. Kind of like how they
melted down old films!

Bruce

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Kirby McDaniel <[email protected]> wrote:

> There are some that SHOULD be!
> K.
>
> On Feb 14, 2012, at 8:25 AM, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
>
> We often hear that half of all movies made before 1920 are "lost". But
> what is the most recent "lost" film? I mean, are there movies of the 1960s
> or later that are "lost"? Or when did people stop being so stupid as to
> lose the last surviving example of a movie?
>
> Bruce
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