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When I was a dumb, naive kid, I just assumed that everything ever recorded, photographed, written, etc was saved somewhere in some form for the sake of history, art, science, and just posterity.
It was a huge gut check finding out that wasn't even remotely the case, and in fact a lot of good shit is gone forever because someone reused the tape or throw it out or whatnot. 😔
Everything we make is special. Even the dumb shit. It all needs to be preserved, catalogued, and recorded.
Video tape used to be insanely expensive, so it was very common to reuse the tapes. Unfortunately, that meant that a lot of the early TV shows were lost. Back then the only way of recording video at home was on film, so it was very rare for anyone to have a copy of them.