[78-L] For old timey TV fans..slight 78RPM connection

[Jeff Sultanof]

I don't think anyone deliberately destroys negatives (vs. kinescopes),
although there are exceptions. The master video tapes of the children's
program "Winchell-Mahoney Time" were (supposedly) deliberately destroyed by
Metromedia when Winchell sued them over syndication rights (although there
are a couple of clips at You-Tube, so some may exist).

For shows produced independently, the question often is: where are negatives
stored? The website for "I'm Dickens, He's Fenster" implies that there was
some detective work to find the negatives.

Jeff Sultanof

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Julian Vein
<julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>wrote:

> On 27/10/11 16:16, Michael Biel wrote:
> > From: Julian Vein<julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
> >> Can anyone explain when a filmed, rather than live, series is sold to a
> >> TV company, what happens to the film after the airing? Have the company
> >> the rights to show it in perpetuity or do what they will with it?
> >> Julian Vein
> > ======================
> >
> > Syndication to local stations is usually paid on a per-episode basis for
> > a time period of a year or two, and the station can play the episodes as
> > many times as they want during that time period.  For example, if there
> > are 100 episodes and a station pays $5000 per episode, they run those
> > episodes and make their money by selling local ads which might only
> > bring in $2000 each airing.  So they don't make money until the third
> > airing on their station.  When the contract is up, the tapes of the
> > films go back (nobody syndicates the actual films anymore).
> >
> > There are many other types of contracts (usually secret) but this is the
> > general business model.
> >
> > Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> >
> Thanks Mike. Does this mean that when the films go back to the
> originator, they are kept by them? This would mean that they would end
> up with a warehouse full of the stuff and I can't imagine them being
> destroyed. This would seem to indicate that clean copies must still
> exist somewhere.
>
>      Julian Vein
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