Editing Tele-snaps (section)

==Cultural significance==
In the early days of television, the means of making recordings of television programmes were limited and programmes were, in the main, transmitted live. This began to change as techniques for recording programmes onto film ([[telerecording]]) and, later, [[videotape]] were developed in the 1950s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lost-british-television.blogspot.com/2007/01/above-image-is-historic.html|title=The First TV Recordings|access-date=22 March 2007|last=Henderson|first=Andy|date=20 January 2007|publisher=Lost British Television}}{{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> Even after the technology for recording programmes had become the norm, it was a common practice, due to a combination of the costs of storage and restrictions on broadcasting repeats, for UK broadcasters to [[Lost television broadcast#Wiping|wipe]] programmes after transmission.<ref>{{cite book|last=Fiddy|first=Dick|title=Missing Believed Wiped. Searching for the lost treasures of British Television|year=2001|publisher=British Film Institute|location=London|isbn=0-85170-866-8|pages=5–10|chapter=Background}}</ref> As a result, John Cura's tele-snaps are often the only surviving record of many [[List of lost television broadcasts|lost programmes from the early years of television]].

Tele-snaps have been used to reconstruct lost television shows by marrying up the tele-snaps with audio recordings of missing shows to create a slide-show backed by the programme's soundtrack. Most notably, this technique has been employed, on an amateur, not-for-profit basis, by some enthusiasts of the British science fiction series ''[[Doctor Who]]'', which has nearly a hundred missing episodes.<ref>{{cite journal|editor1-last=Robinson|editor1-first=Bruce|editor2-last=Franks|editor2-first=Robert|date=10 May 1998|title=History of the Reconstructions Part I|journal=The Disused Yeti|issue=12|url=http://archive.whoniversity.co.uk/dy/is12.htm#12.1|access-date=20 March 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927023344/http://archive.whoniversity.co.uk/dy/is12.htm|archive-date=27 September 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|editor1-last=Robinson|editor1-first=Bruce|editor2-last=Franks|editor2-first=Robert|date=11 July 1998|title=History of the Reconstructions Part II|journal=The Disused Yeti|issue=13|url=http://archive.whoniversity.co.uk/dy/is13.htm#13.1|access-date=20 March 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927023324/http://archive.whoniversity.co.uk/dy/is13.htm|archive-date=27 September 2007}}</ref> Some professional reconstructions using tele-snaps have also been created, including:
* A brief (15-minute) reconstruction of episodes two and three of the ''Doctor Who'' serial ''[[The Ice Warriors]]'' for its VHS videotape release in 1998.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.purpleville.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/rtwebsite/ice.htm|title=The Ice Warriors|access-date=18 March 2007|last=Roberts|first=Steve|date=7 August 1998|work=Doctor Who Restoration Team|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071121043523/http://www.purpleville.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/rtwebsite/ice.htm|archive-date=21 November 2007}}</ref>
* A full reconstruction of the final episode of the ''Doctor Who'' serial ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'' for its VHS videotape release in 2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.purpleville.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/rtwebsite/cybermen.htm|title='The Cybermen' Boxset|access-date=18 March 2007|last1=Roberts|first1=Steve|last2=Montagu|first2=Ralph|date=November 2000|work=Doctor Who Restoration Team|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071120110901/http://www.purpleville.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/rtwebsite/cybermen.htm|archive-date=20 November 2007}}</ref>
* A full reconstruction of the ''Doctor Who'' serial ''[[The Power of the Daleks]]'' for the MP3 CD release of that story in 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2005/06/08/19855.shtml|title=Doctor Who: News: Power of the Daleks|access-date=18 March 2007|date=8 June 2005|work=BBC – Official Doctor Who site}}</ref> This reconstruction was later included in the DVD release of an animated version of the serial in 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.doctorwho.tv/news/?article=the-power-of-the-daleks-dvd-artwork-and-extras-unveiled|title=The Power of the Daleks DVD artwork and extras unveiled|last=McEwan|first=Cameron K|date=26 October 2016|website=Doctor Who|access-date=14 February 2021}}</ref>
*Similar full reconstructions of all four episodes of ''[[The Macra Terror]]'', episodes 2,4,5 and 6 of ''[[The Faceless Ones]]'', all six episodes of ''[[Fury from the Deep]]'', episode 3 of ''[[The Web of Fear]]'', all six episodes of ''[[The Power of the Daleks]]'' and episodes 1 & 3-7 of ''[[The Evil of the Daleks]]'' (with the surviving parts represented by the original episodes and surviving footage) have also been included in the subsequent DVD releases of the animated versions.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.doctorwho.tv/news/?article=the-macra-terror-dvd-and-bluray-cover-art-and-special-features-revealed|title='The Macra Terror' DVD and Blu-Ray cover art and special features revealed|last=Dee|first=Christel|date=2 March 2019|website=Doctor Who|access-date=14 February 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.doctorwho.tv/news/?article=the-faceless-ones-dvd-bluray-reveal|title='The Faceless Ones' cover art and special features revealed|date=8 February 2020|website=Doctor Who|access-date=14 February 2021}}</ref>
* A condensed (30-minute) reconstruction of the seven-part ''Doctor Who'' serial ''[[Marco Polo (Doctor Who)|Marco Polo]]'' for the DVD release, "The Beginning", in 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.purpleville.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/rtwebsite/beginningdvd.htm|title=The Beginning – DVD Boxset|access-date=18 March 2007|last1=Roberts|first1=Steve|last2=Ayres|first2=Mark|date=15 November 2005|work=Doctor Who Restoration Team|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061230063259/http://www.purpleville.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/rtwebsite/beginningdvd.htm|archive-date=30 December 2006}}</ref>
* A condensed reconstruction of the missing episodes of the 1961 science fiction serial ''[[A for Andromeda]]'' for its DVD release in 2006. Since at the time of release no soundtrack for the missing episodes of this serial exists, this reconstruction is backed by music used in the serial with on-screen captions employed to narrate the story.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=62660|title=The Andromeda Anthology – Review|access-date=18 March 2007|last=Couzens|first=Gary|date=2 September 2006|work=DVD Times}}</ref> (the full soundtrack of the partially-existing episode 7 was subsequently recovered).
* Narrated reconstructions of episodes from the first season of ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' have been included as extras on the Region 2 DVDs of the series released by Optimum.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://declassified.theavengers.tv/keel_reconstructions.htm|title=The Avengers Reconstructed|access-date=29 May 2011|last=Hayes|first=Alan|work=The Avengers Declassified|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814111506/http://declassified.theavengers.tv/keel_reconstructions.htm|archive-date=14 August 2011}}</ref>