Author Topic: Unfortunate tweet from TVPMM (Read 6548 times)

SuperMatch93 · « **on:** July 27, 2013, 10:58:33 AM »

https://twitter.com/tvpmm/status/361071540529414145\'>I don\'t think it ever reran anywhere, did it?

DoorNumberFour · « **Reply #1 on:** July 27, 2013, 11:03:42 AM »

Sad news. Were the tapes ever converted to digital?

Jimmy Owen · « **Reply #2 on:** July 27, 2013, 11:47:05 AM »

Guess those boxes aren\'t always watertight. When I worked in TV (circa 1978), we used these bulky blue watertight plastic boxes.

Vahan_Nisanian · « **Reply #3 on:** July 27, 2013, 12:24:40 PM »

Sad news.

But at least in this case, it wasn\'t NBC\'s fault.

BrandonFG · « **Reply #4 on:** July 27, 2013, 01:29:17 PM »

Damn. Sorry to hear that. The DH theme (2nd version) was on my list of themes I\'d love to see found.

TLEberle · « **Reply #5 on:** July 27, 2013, 02:42:01 PM »

But at least in this case, it wasn\'t NBC\'s fault

What difference does that make?

On another note, how does one go about contacting the proprietor? I can\'t login and there\'s no way to retrieve the password and login names, and nothing to contact the webmaster.

SuperMatch93 · « **Reply #6 on:** July 27, 2013, 03:07:01 PM »

His email address is tvmusicmuseum@gmail.com

mmb5 · « **Reply #7 on:** July 28, 2013, 08:48:21 AM »

Where this ranks among the great media losses in history:

1. Library of Alexandria

2. Grand Library of Baghdad

213. NASA\'s copies of moon landing tapes

3289462. My mother throwing away my childhood stuff

6783243. The Dream House flood

catnap1972 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 28, 2013, 09:02:05 AM »

More makes me wonder what (if anything) else was lost.

Jimmy Owen · « **Reply #9 on:** July 28, 2013, 09:39:27 AM »

Hopefully, the Mike Darow/Darrow version still exists.

Vahan_Nisanian · « **Reply #10 on:** July 28, 2013, 09:41:10 AM »

Jimmy, were the Eubanks Dream House tapes victims of the same flood as some of Warner Bros.\' film materials in 1994? I thought I remember reading on Home Theater Forum, that some of their film material was damaged in a 1994 flood. In fact, I also thought Warner used to own the Dream House tapes.

Jimmy Owen · « **Reply #11 on:** July 28, 2013, 09:50:56 AM »

Jimmy, were the Dream House tapes victims of the same flood as some of Warner Bros.\' film materials in 1994? I thought I remember reading on Home Theater Forum, that some of their film material was damaged in a 1994 flood. In fact, I also thought Warner used to own the Dream House tapes.

I\'m pretty sure it was a Don Reid Production in association with Group W. W = Westinghouse Broadcasting which merged into CBS. Thus, it would be in the hands of Paramount, if existed today. Paramount has so much stuff that the loss is virtually insignificant. If, as Wikipedia says, Lorimar was also involved in 1984, it\'s possible Warner would have that year as, they were the successor to Lorimar.

Vahan_Nisanian · « **Reply #12 on:** July 28, 2013, 09:53:21 AM »

Well then, when did Paramount or Warner have this kind of flood on their videotape vault after 1994? Are there any reports of such a thing online?

Jimmy Owen · « **Reply #13 on:** July 28, 2013, 09:59:56 AM »

I don\'t recall hearing of any flood destroying tapes. I do remember a vault fire at Universal that destroyed a bunch of tape masters of old movies.

TimK2003 · « **Reply #14 on:** July 28, 2013, 11:40:18 AM »

Somewhere out in tape trading land, there is a mega-mix of literally HOURS of \"Golden Doors\" segments on the circuit, FWIW.