Missing Believed Wiped: Mid-Summer Special

A long-lost BBC documentary celebrating the release of Abbey Road screens alongside a special collection of recently uncovered items.

  • Total running time 110min

The centrepiece of this collection of recently discovered, mostly musical, items is a treasure from the extraordinary video archive of counterculture figure Jack Henry Moore. Among his eclectic and wide-ranging collection is footage from a long-lost Late-Night Line-Up special celebrating the 1969 release of the Beatles’ Abbey Road. Rowan Ayers, the editor for Line-Up at the time, said that he planned to ‘illustrate the music with captions, film sequences and electronic devices’. Dig Media, the custodians of the Moore Archive, will present a work-in-progress version of the programme.

Programme:

Out of the Box: Drama

BBC 1972. Dir Peggy Walker. With Denis Norden, Rosalie Crutchley, Peter Graham Scott, Michael Elliot. 30min

To mark the 50th anniversary of the BBC a large number of celebratory programmes were made, including the series Out of the Box. Each edition sees a team of insiders play a quiz centred around different aspects of the BBC’s output. This surviving edition – sourced from a domestic video tape – looks at BBC drama with a host of clips and fascinating behind-the-scenes insights (including stories about 1984, The Troubleshooters and The Year of the Sex Olympics).

With thanks to Diteli Media.

Presentation: Early BBC Colour

As a curtain raiser to a BFI event next year celebrating the 60th anniversary of colour TV in the UK, we will hear about ‘colour recovery’ work on the experimental broadcasts in the weeks before the official launch in 1967. Features a sneak-peak, first look at some of this material.

Late Night Line-Up: Abbey Road

BBC 1969. Dir Granville Jenkins

A remarkable and painstaking reconstruction of the 1968 Late Night Line-Up programme (produced by Rowan Ayers) celebrating the launch of the Beatles’ Abbey Road. This work-in-progress derives from the only known surviving copy: an off-air domestic video recording made by the arts and video pioneer Jack Henry Moore (1940-2014) on his Sony CV2000 405 line Videocorder, preserved in his tape archive and now in the care of Dig Media. The tape ends, delightfully, with the BBC’s ‘God Save the Queen’ closedown card.

Dig It

As an extra-special bonus, Dig Media – custodians of the extraordinary Jack Henry Moore archive – have put together a special compilation from the collection featuring fabulously rare (and in some cases unseen) footage of music artist from the 1960s and 70s, including Bob Dylan, Lou Reed and the Jimi Hendrix-produced band Eire Apparent (performing at the legendary Alchemical Wedding at the Royal Albert Hall).