Editing Tele-snaps (section)

{{short description|British television photos produced by John Cura}}
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'''Tele-snaps''' (often known as '''telesnaps''') were off-screen photographs of British television broadcasts, taken and sold commercially by '''John Cura'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA--> (born Alberto Giovanni Cura in [[Clapham]], [[South London]], England; 9 April 1902 – 21 April 1969). From 1947 until 1968, Cura ran a business selling the 250,000-plus tele-snaps he took. The photographs were snapped in [[Half-frame camera|half of a normal frame]] of [[35mm format|35mm film]], at an exposure of 1/25th of a second. Generally around 70–80 tele-snaps were taken of each programme. They were mostly purchased by actors and directors to use as records and examples of their work before the prevalence of [[videocassette recorder]]s.

For many early programmes tele-snaps are the [[List of lost television broadcasts|only surviving record]] of their appearance. From the 1990s onwards, tele-snaps have often been used by groups of fans to recreate [[Doctor Who missing episodes|lost ''Doctor Who'' episodes]], creating "reconstructions" by marrying the images to fan-recorded off-air soundtracks of the episodes.