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Originally Posted by Richard_FM
I still feel the BBC's wiping of the studio coverage of the Apollo 11 mission to have been one of the worse judged archive clearances.
Supposedly the tape that contained the crucial moments still exists, but has racing from Doncaster on it.
The coverage had one of the first uses of an electronic caption generator Anchor.
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The thinking at the time was that in the future, people would want to see Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, not Sir Patrick Moore reporting that Neil Armstrong had just landed on the moon.