A lot of the material was the same as what had been aired.
“Eventually, listening one night… this one played out and it was not the same as broadcast,” Mr La Rivière said.
He had to wait 24 hours for the rest to be scanned, but then it turned out it was a “missing” episode “that no one had ever seen before”.
Mr La Rivière said the film can was damaged, exposing the films inside to the elements, so there was some restoration work to do on the material first.
But then he hoped it could be shown to the public in 2025, after 60 years of “lying around waiting to be discovered”.
