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mr_ji t1_j41ig2i wrote

When was this footage ever lost? It's always been available.

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pushaper t1_j41mhgp wrote

it was lost in the 60s. It may well have always been in the archives but it was filed away badly or mislabeled in a move or what have you.

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mr_ji t1_j43e8ol wrote

No, it wasn't. I saw it in Nat Geo programming 20-30 years ago.

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pushaper t1_j43fse2 wrote

not all the footage by the videographer was lost... he had other footage used in many other chimp docs and Jane Goodall docs etc

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scavengercat t1_j42vatv wrote

If you lose your keys and then you find them, they were lost to you, but they were always available.

"Drawing from over 100 hours of never-before-seen footage that has been tucked away in the National Geographic archives for over 50 years", so the footage was lost in the archives and then found again. Misplaced, lost, whatever, it's semantics, what matters is it's footage that no one has ever seen before.

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mr_ji t1_j43dsmt wrote

That's the point. I saw the same footage 20 and 30 and 40 years ago. Something isn't lost to the viewing public because you've personally never bothered to look for it.

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scavengercat t1_j43gpk3 wrote

I highly doubt you saw the "same" footage if it's National Geographic saying it's been in the archives for 50 years. I'm gonna trust them on this one.

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