Film preservationists unearthed a long-lost TV performance by 1980s film star Dudley Moore \u2014 in the days before he became a household name and fronted a jazz trio.<\/p>\n
The group Film is Fabulous! said it recovered the black-and-white clip<\/a> of The Dudley Moore Trio from 1967 jamming on the BBC program \u201cThis is Petula Clark\u201d as it catalogued two private collections.<\/p>\n Peter Cook, left, and Dudley Moore on set together in 1964. Radio Times via Getty Images<\/p>\n The broadcast, which aired Dec. 19, 1967, is one of dozens of BBC variety and music programs believed lost forever after the network\u2019s infamous tape-wiping purges of the 1960s and 1970s.<\/p>\n The BBC and other broadcasters would erase and record over their tapes in an effort to save cash in an era before reruns were commonplace in the UK. <\/p>\n Huge swaths of British TV history are now missing.<\/p>\n Moore was a serious Oxford-trained and classically schooled jazz musician before his pivot to comedy. Getty Images<\/p>\n Moore is best remembered stateside for Hollywood hits like \u201c10\u201d and \u201cArthur,\u201d which earned him an Oscar nod for Best Actor. But before that, he was a serious Oxford-trained and classically schooled jazz musician.\u00a0<\/p>\n He led his own trio and built a reputation as a skilled pianist and composer well before comedy made him a household name.<\/p>\n The missing scene from \u201cThis Is Petula Clark\u201d \u2014 a BBC broadcast that was thought to be long gone \u2014 features a clip of the famous \u201cDudley Moore Trio\u201d performing on the broadcast. Film is Fabulous<\/p>\n Surviving fragments like this one have been turning up more and more through private movie collections<\/a>, dusty attics<\/a> and even forgotten film cans<\/a> that have coughed up missing episodes before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Film preservationists unearthed a long-lost TV performance by 1980s film star Dudley Moore \u2014 in the days before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[8827,37329,236,29922,88,2695,194],"class_list":["post-772825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bbc","tag-british","tag-celebrities","tag-classic-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}