Bbc Archives & We Meet Again

BBC Athenaeum are collections documenting the BBC's broadcasting history, including copies of television and radio broadcasts, internal documents, photographs, online content, sheet music, commercially available music, BBC products (including toys, games, merchandise, books, publications, and programme releases on VHS, Beta, Laserdisc, DVD, vinyl, audio cassette, audio volume CD, and Blu Ray), press cuttings, artifacts and celebrated equipment.^[ane] The original contents of the collections are permanently retained simply are in the process of being digitised. Some collections are beingness uploaded to the BBC Archives section of the BBC Online website for visitors to view. The archive is one of the largest broadcast archives in the world, with over 15 million items.

Overview [edit]

The BBC Athenaeum encompass numerous collections containing materials produced and acquired by the BBC. The earliest textile dates back to 1890.^[ii] The athenaeum contain 15 million items on threescore miles of shelving spread over several sites, and include approximately 1 million hours of playable media.^[two] Items are managed using a bar code system for locating stored items and tracking items that accept been lent out.^[2] The BBC says that the budget for managing, protecting and digitising the annal accounts for only a pocket-sized role of its overall budget.^[ii]

The BBC is engaging in an ongoing project to digitise and preserve their entire archived programme material, migrating (transferring) recordings made on older counterpart formats such as flick, sound tape, videotape, vinyl, wax cylinders etc on to today's latest electronic formats as digital files, which are compatible with modern computer hardware and software equipment and systems. BBC Athenaeum is constantly preserving, cataloguing and digitising its physical formats in order to safeguard material that is physically deteriorating for the time to come. Where their aim is to eventually create a complete digital annal where they no longer have to utilize now obsolete media formats and their respective equipment used for playing and migrating physical formats on to other physical formats. The BBC can instead and then to continue to preserve original master material in their secure vaults. BBC Archives has contingencies in place when digitising material so that digitised copies are not accidentally overwritten, encrypted, deleted, incorrectly catalogued, incorrectly labelled and no more than than one copy of each is digitised into the BBC Digital Archives.

Much of the audio-visual material was originally recorded on formats which are now obsolete and incompatible with modern broadcast equipment due to the fact that the machines used to reproduce many formats are no longer being manufactured. Additionally, some flick and audio formats are slowly disintegrating, and digitisation also serves equally a digital preservation programme.

The BBC Annal website was relaunched online in 2008 and has provided newly released historical material regularly since so.^[iii] The BBC works in partnership with the British Picture Establish (BFI), The National Archives and other partners in working with and using the materials.^[2]

In 2012, BBC Archive Development produced a book - primarily aimed equally BBC staff - titled 'BBC Archive Collections: What'southward In The Archive And How To Utilize Them'.^[4] This book describes the BBC'due south archive collections and offers guidance around on how items from the collections can be reused online.

Buildings [edit]

From 1963 to 2010, the majority of goggle box cloth of nationally networked programmes in the BBC Archive were housed at the archive centre in Windmill Route, Brentford, in west London. Television programmes were also stored past the Open up Academy in Milton Keynes, and past BBC nations and regional libraries around the country. In the late 1990s, and early in the 2000s material from the radio side of the BBC were as well stored on the site. The condition of the iii Windmill Road buildings deteriorated over the years and suffered occasional flooding incidents, and somewhen the archive was relocated to a new centre at Perivale Park, Perivale, three miles northward of the onetime site. The new BBC Archive Heart was opened in Summertime 2010 and all material was successfully moved past March 2011.

Textile is stored in thirteen vaults, controlled to match the best climate for the material inside them, and named after a unlike BBC personality depending on the content contained in them. In addition to the vaults, new editing, preservation and workrooms accept been added then that the material tin easily be transferred between formats as well as viewed, restored and digitised for future posterity. The building has too been fitted with fire suppression systems to protect the archive in the effect of an incident at the centre, so the full loss of the archive is avoided.

As of April 2019, BBC Athenaeum employs effectually 200 staff, near of whom are based at the Archive Eye in Perivale.^[five]

Television Annal [edit]

The BBC Goggle box Archive contains over 1.five million tape items also equally over 600,000 cans of moving picture material. The archive itself holds extensive material from approximately the mid-1970s onwards, when important recordings at the broadcaster were retained for the future.^[6]

Recordings from before this date are less comprehensively preserved; the process of telerecording was originally invented in 1947^[7] while videotape recording was gradually introduced from the tardily 1950s onwards,^[viii] but due to the expense of the tapes,^[9] recording was seen for production utilise only with recordings later being lost.^[8] or telerecordings beingness junked. The exceptions in the early years were commonly occasions of great importance, such as the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.^[7] In addition, numerous programmes at the time were circulate 'live' and and so utilised no recording process in the production procedure.^[7] The earliest item in the drove is from 1936.^{[10] [eleven]}

Today, the bulk of programmes are kept, including news, entertainment, drama and a pick of other long-running programmes such as quiz shows.^[12] The remaining material from the television archive is offered to the British Film Found prior to being disposed of.^[13]

Sound Annal [edit]

The BBC Sound Archive contains the archived output from the BBC's radio output. Widespread recordings exist in the archive from the mid-1930s, when recording of programmes and speeches were kept for rebroadcast; the catalyst for this was the launch of the BBC Empire Service in 1932 and the subsequent rebroadcast of speeches from political leaders at a time convenient in the dissimilar time zones.^[fourteen] Prior to this, the broadcast of recordings was seen as being false to the listener and was avoided.^[fifteen] Whatsoever recordings made were oft disposed of and it was the efforts of Marie Slocombe, who founded the Audio Archive in 1937 when she retained recordings of prominent figures in the country, that the archive became into beingness officially when she was appointed the Sounds Recording Librarian in 1941.^[sixteen] Today, all of the BBC's radio output is recorded for re-use,^[17] with approximately 66% of output existence preserved in the Archives;^[17] programmes involving guests or live performances from artists are kept^[17] whereas programmes in which the DJ plays commercially available music are only sampled and not kept entirely.^[17] Prior to whatsoever textile being disposed of, the textile is offered to the British Library Sound Annal.^[thirteen]

The annal consists of multiple formats including wax cylinders,^[18] numerous gramophone records made from both shellac and vinyl.^[19] besides as numerous more recordings on tape, CD and on digital audio tape (DAT).^[xx] The difficulty of these different formats is the availability of the machines required to play them; some of the records in the annal are sixteen inches in diameter and require large phonograph units to play,^[19] while the players for the wax cylinders and DATs are no longer in production.^[20] There are also 700,000 vinyl records, 180,000 78's records, 400,000 LP record and 350,000 Cd's in the annal.^[21]

The Radio Digital Annal has been capturing radio programmes as circulate quality wav files since 2008, with now over 1.5 one thousand thousand recordings growing daily.

Some of the wax cylinder collection has been donated to the British Library.

The Sound Annal is based at the BBC Archive Eye in Perivale, along with the television archive, and was previously based at Windmill Route, Brentford.

Written Athenaeum [edit]

The BBC Written Archives contain all the internal written documents and communications from the corporation from the launch in 1922 to the present mean solar day.^{[22] [23]} Its collections shed light into the behind the scenes workings of the corporation and also elaborate on the difficulties of getting a tv set or radio program to or off the air every bit the case may be.^[24] The archive guidelines land that access to files post-1980 is restricted due to the current nature of the files; the general exception to this rule are documents such equally scripts and Programme equally Circulate records.

The Written Archives are located at the BBC Written Archives Middle in Caversham, Berkshire, nigh Reading.^[22] The middle houses the archive on four and a one-half miles of shelving along with reading rooms. The middle is different from the other BBC Athenaeum in that the centre opens for writers and academic researchers in higher educational activity.^[22]

Photographic Library [edit]

The BBC Photographic Library is responsible for approximately 7 meg images,^[25] dating dorsum to 1922,^[26] created for publicity purposes and subsequently kept for futurity use.^[27] In addition to plan promotion, a large number of images are of historic events which are frequently contain into the daily news bulletins; every bit a result, one-half the photographic library team work specifically with these images.^[28] The images themselves are kept as originals in the archive, with digitisation simply utilised when a specific image is required for utilize, when the epitome is sent in a digital format.^[29] Copies of images are also used in case whatever images are damaged due to vinegar syndrome and other bug.^[xxx]

The nearly requested images from the Annal include Colin Firth in Pride and Prejudice, Michael Parkinson interviewing Muhammad Ali, Martin Bashir interviewing Diana, Princess of Wales and a pic of Delia Derbyshire at work in the Radiophonic workshop at the BBC.^[31]

Annal Treasure Hunt [edit]

At the plough of the millennium, the BBC launched the BBC Annal Treasure Chase, a public appeal to recover pre-1980s lost BBC radio and television productions.^[32] Original material of many programmes were lost due to the practice of discarding recordings because of the need to reduce costs, copyright issues and for technical reasons.^{[33] [34]}

The resolution of this entreatment was that over i hundred productions were recovered^[35] including The Men from the Ministry building, Something To Shout Most, Man and Superman, The Doctor'due south Dilemma, I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Once more, Hancock'southward Half Hr, I'm Sorry, I Oasis't A Inkling and The Ronnie Corbett Thing in improver to recording sessions with Elton John, Ringo Starr and Paul Simon.^{[36] [37]} In addition, the Peter Sellers Estate Collection donated numerous recordings featuring Peter Sellers.^[36]

Creative Annal Licence [edit]

The BBC together with the British Film Institute, the Open University, Channel iv and Teachers' Television set formed a collaboration, named the Creative Archive Licence Group, to create a copyright licence for the re-release of archived fabric.^[38]

The Licence was a trial, launched in 2005, and notable for the re-release of function of the BBC News' archive and programmes made by the BBC Natural History Unit for artistic employ by the public. While artists and teachers were encouraged to utilise the content to create works of their own, the terms of the licence were restrictive compared to copyleft licences. Use of Creative Archive content for commercial, "endorsement, campaigning, defamatory or derogatory purposes" was forbidden, whatever derivative works were to exist released under the same licence, and content was only to be used within the UK.^{[38] [39]} The trial concluded in 2006 following a review by the BBC Trust and works released under the licence were withdrawn.^[38]

Voices from the Athenaeum [edit]

Voices from the Archives was a one-time BBC project, launched in partnership with BBC Iv that provided free admission to sound interviews with various notable people and professions from a variety of political, religious and social backgrounds. The website ceased to be updated in June 2005, and the concept was instead adopted by BBC Radio 4 as a collection of movie interviews from various programmes.

Heritage Collection [edit]

The BBC Heritage Drove is the newest of the BBC Archives and holds historic circulate applied science, art, props and merchandise.^[40] The drove was created out of personal collections and bequeaths by one-time staff members, equally the BBC had no formal policy on the heritage collection until c.2003.^[40]

The collection includes, among other items, the BBC One Noddy Globe and clock,^[41] a BBC-Marconi Type A microphone,^[41] an early crystal radio made by the British Broadcasting Company,^[41] a Marconi/EMI photographic camera used in the early BBC Television experiments,^[41] a BBC Micro calculator^[41] and a selection of items used to create Foley effects on soundtracks.^[41] In improver to all the broadcast technology, art is also kept, namely the portraits of all the BBC Director Generals,^[42] too equally props including an original TARDIS from Doctor Who ^[43] and the children's tv puppet Gordon the Gopher.^[43]

The heritage collection itself has no single permanent domicile, as the bulk of objects are on display, either around BBC backdrop or on loan to museums or other collections; the about pregnant museum housing the collection is the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford.^[44]

Programme Catalogue [edit]

Over the years, the BBC has used various plan catalogue databases to keep a tape of the programmes in the archives. Internal databases include Infax and Fabric, and publicly attainable databases include BBC Genome and BBC Programmes.

See as well [edit]

• BBC Genome Project
• Lost picture
• Film preservation
• Missing Believed Wiped
• Telerecording
• Doctor Who missing episodes
• Timeline of the BBC
• Dad's Army missing episodes

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

BBC Archives [edit]

• BBC Athenaeum at BBC Online
• BBC 4 – Collections at BBC Online
• BBC Archive collection – Annal Pioneers: Saviours of audio at the BBC at BBC Online
• BBC Programmes at BBC Online
• BBC Data and Athenaeum at BBC Online
• Tech Weekly podcast: In the BBC archives from The Guardian website.
• BBC Archive Collections: What's In The Archives, And How To Use Them

Wiped Cloth [edit]

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Archives

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