22-02-2024, 11:49 PM
"We're going all meta as @BBCArchive brings you an Open Air feature on, well..., the BBC Archive."
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"Roy Sheppard was at Windmill Road in Brentford, and spoke to Anne Hanford (Head of TV Library) about the collection believed to be the biggest film and TV library in the world with an estimated 500,000 film reels and 300,000 items on tape.
"Clip taken from Open Air, originally broadcast on BBC One, Thursday 8 March, 1990."
I believe the whole archive site was effectively relocated a few miles up the road about 20 years later due to flooding and the buildings basically dropping to pieces.
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"Roy Sheppard was at Windmill Road in Brentford, and spoke to Anne Hanford (Head of TV Library) about the collection believed to be the biggest film and TV library in the world with an estimated 500,000 film reels and 300,000 items on tape.
"Clip taken from Open Air, originally broadcast on BBC One, Thursday 8 March, 1990."
I believe the whole archive site was effectively relocated a few miles up the road about 20 years later due to flooding and the buildings basically dropping to pieces.