Or so I heard on the radio ... One of the facilities where they think the tapes would be if they still had them is due to be closed. No one's going to approve money to go back through and catalogue everything in a decommissioned facility. People who have known about the loss are afraid they're going to get thrown away.

The thing that amazed me when I heard the interview was that most people have never seen the real footage. The stuff that was on TV was from a TV camera in a control room in Australia pointed at a monitor that was receiving the live feed. Due to encoding issues, they couldn't directly broadcast the live feed on TV. The real footage was apparently as clear as if they were shooting from a soundstage. Which they weren't. Honest.