Lost David Bowie footage recovered
Written by admin on December 15, 2011 – 8:10 am - |
A retired cameraman has come forward with footage of David Bowie that was thought to be lost forever.
The footage features Bowie singing “Jean Genie” on Top of the Pops in 1973. |
John Henshall, 69, from Stanford-in-the-Vale, Oxfordshire, had filmed the performance using his Telefex Fisheye lenses and had been allowed to keep a copy on 2in (5cm) broadcast videotape so that he could feature it on his showreel.
Henshall told the BBC:
| “I just couldn’t believe that I was the only one with it. I just thought you wouldn’t be mad enough to wipe a tape like that.” |
| “They’d been looking for it for years, hoping that somebody had maybe pointed an 8mm home movie camera at the screen, because there was no VHS in those days. I didn’t realise that anybody wanted it. I’d just had it because it was my Fisheye.” |
The recording was revealed at the British Film Institute’s annual Missing Believed Wiped event on Sunday, alongside rarities such as missing Doctor Who episodes and a Peter Cook and Dudley Moore sketch.
The performance of “Jean Genie” will be seen in early 2012 in a BBC4 documentary titled “Tales of Television Centre.”
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Tags: David Bowie, David Bowie competition, Jean Genie
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