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(47,486 posts) Sun Oct 9, 2016, 01:06 AM Oct 2016

Just curious: why would Access Hollywood even keep that tape all those years? (nt)

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Just curious: why would Access Hollywood even keep that tape all those years? (nt) (Original Post) question everything Oct 2016 OP

Why not? Probably just in case something like this ever happens. Ratings are probably going up. bravenak Oct 2016 #1

Most media keeps an archive of pretty much all their footage. Drunken Irishman Oct 2016 #2

Unless you're NASA or the BBC Nevernose Oct 2016 #5

Back then physical media was expensive, highly flammable and took up a ton of space. LeftyMom Oct 2016 #10

Everything is in the cloud HipChick Oct 2016 #11

NASA keeps everything. joshcryer Oct 2016 #14

I can see them keeping archives of all their programs, but this was not part of the program question everything Oct 2016 #7

because it would waste more time and effort to get rid of it than to just keep it JI7 Oct 2016 #12

It looks like it was filled to be b-roll Trekologer Oct 2016 #16

Why do newspapers everywhere keep their articles going back a hundred years or more? Binkie The Clown Oct 2016 #3

To shore up the walls of old salt mines. n/t Scurrilous Oct 2016 #4

Same reason someone would keep a blue dress exboyfil Oct 2016 #6

There you go. But in that case it did not take 11 years for it to surface (nt) question everything Oct 2016 #9

Video archives go back decades to the 60's and earlier to the beginning of the networks. Agnosticsherbet Oct 2016 #8

Yes. murielm99 Oct 2016 #15

I want to remind every one that this happened with Billy Bush, cousin of Jeb. Agnosticsherbet Oct 2016 #17

B-Roll. joshcryer Oct 2016 #13

bravenak

(34,648 posts)

1. Why not? Probably just in case something like this ever happens. Ratings are probably going up.

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Sun Oct 9, 2016, 01:08 AM

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Drunken Irishman

(34,857 posts)

2. Most media keeps an archive of pretty much all their footage.

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Sun Oct 9, 2016, 01:14 AM

Oct 2016

It gives them the opportunity to reuse it if they need to for other news stories related to that. It rarely is used but it's best to have it on file just in case - just in case they need archived footage of someone for a story they're doing.

Nevernose

(13,081 posts)

5. Unless you're NASA or the BBC

Reply to Drunken Irishman (Reply #2)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 01:16 AM

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Because then it's adios Dr. Who and goodbye moon landing.

LeftyMom

(49,212 posts)

10. Back then physical media was expensive, highly flammable and took up a ton of space.

Reply to Nevernose (Reply #5)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 01:44 AM

Oct 2016

Reuse made sense. Very little early television is preserved. There isn't a complete recording of the first Super Bowl, for example.

Now everything is digitized and the cost to keep stuff is nearly zero.

HipChick

(25,485 posts)

11. Everything is in the cloud

Reply to LeftyMom (Reply #10)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 01:53 AM

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joshcryer

(62,276 posts)

14. NASA keeps everything.

Reply to Nevernose (Reply #5)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 06:01 AM

Oct 2016

The whole moon landing remaster thing was just people making the analog archives digital. It was never lost, contrary to popular opinion.

question everything

(47,486 posts)

7. I can see them keeping archives of all their programs, but this was not part of the program

Reply to Drunken Irishman (Reply #2)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 01:32 AM

Oct 2016

this was just "bantering."

I can see them keeping the footage of that actress welcoming them to the set (and told to give Donald "a hug.&quot

Do all of them keep archives of pre-show "off the record" - ahem - discussions?

I suppose even by then Trump was a "celebrity" that they thought may come handy.

And, of course, for someone to actually find this 11 year old recording..

JI7

(89,251 posts)

12. because it would waste more time and effort to get rid of it than to just keep it

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Sun Oct 9, 2016, 03:41 AM

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Trekologer

(997 posts)

16. It looks like it was filled to be b-roll

Reply to question everything (Reply #7)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 08:31 AM

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Show the bus rolling in, Trump getting out, walking into the studio, etc. You'd get a 5 second clip out of that, if anything.

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)

3. Why do newspapers everywhere keep their articles going back a hundred years or more?

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Sun Oct 9, 2016, 01:14 AM

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It's something they just do.

Scurrilous

(38,687 posts)

4. To shore up the walls of old salt mines. n/t

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Sun Oct 9, 2016, 01:16 AM

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exboyfil

(17,863 posts)

6. Same reason someone would keep a blue dress

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Sun Oct 9, 2016, 01:18 AM

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with a certain stain.

question everything

(47,486 posts)

9. There you go. But in that case it did not take 11 years for it to surface (nt)

Reply to exboyfil (Reply #6)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 01:33 AM

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Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)

8. Video archives go back decades to the 60's and earlier to the beginning of the networks.

Reply to question everything (Original post)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 01:33 AM

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I am not surprised it was saved. I am curious who leaked it.

murielm99

(30,745 posts)

15. Yes.

Reply to Agnosticsherbet (Reply #8)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 06:48 AM

Oct 2016

Someone had to remember seeing it, and then they had to go find it. I bet it would be easy to find out who did it.

They did the world a favor, like Deep Throat and Watergate.

Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)

17. I want to remind every one that this happened with Billy Bush, cousin of Jeb.

Reply to murielm99 (Reply #15)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 10:59 AM

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joshcryer

(62,276 posts)

13. B-Roll.

Reply to question everything (Original post)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 05:57 AM

Oct 2016

2005 is not really surprising at all. If it was earlier you'd wonder what was up, maybe, but even then a lot of stuff pre-2000 was saved on 35mm film (yeah, you heard that right, they filmed TV on actual film for archival purposes; that's why you have HD remasters of shows like Star Trek; the first show to be filmed digitally on a full scale was BSG, which came out in 2005, around that time everyone switched to digital).

This was saved on either analog video tape or digitally (probably the former given the 4:3 ratio). And it sat in an archive for years waiting to be used by someone for whatever B-Roll they could pull off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-roll

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