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Though ''[[Doctor Who]]'' fans are naturally focused on tele-snaps of ''Doctor Who'', this work was only a minor portion of Cura's output. His heyday was in the 1950s and his workload increased tremendously after [[ITV]] started broadcasts in the middle of that decade. | Though ''[[Doctor Who]]'' fans are naturally focused on tele-snaps of ''Doctor Who'', this work was only a minor portion of Cura's output. His heyday was in the 1950s and his workload increased tremendously after [[ITV]] started broadcasts in the middle of that decade. | ||
When he first started capturing ''Doctor Who'' he was nearing the end of his "golden age". He made a decision in 1964 to increase his prices, and this made the BBC balk. Almost immediately, business from the BBC began to slow, and certainly by 1965, ''[[Doctor Who]]'' producer [[John Wiles]] couldn't quite justify the tele-snap expense in his budgets. Although Cura would regain his ''Doctor Who'' commissions under [[Innes Lloyd]], Wiles showed they were a producer's ''choice'' not a ''pro forma'' part of making ''Doctor Who''. Of course, this had pretty much always been the case, since ''Doctor Who'' episodes had always been completely [[telerecording|telerecorded]]. | When he first started capturing ''Doctor Who'' he was nearing the end of his "golden age". He made a decision in 1964 to increase his prices, and this made the BBC balk. Almost immediately, business from the BBC began to slow, and certainly by 1965, ''[[Doctor Who]]'' producer [[John Wiles]] couldn't quite justify the tele-snap expense in his budgets. Although Cura would regain his ''Doctor Who'' commissions under [[Innes Lloyd]], Wiles showed they were a producer's ''choice'' not a ''pro forma'' part of making ''Doctor Who''. Of course, this had pretty much always been the case, since ''Doctor Who'' episodes had always been completely [[telerecording|telerecorded]]. | ||
After Cura died in 1969, his widow offered his complete collection of negatives and prints — literally hundreds of thousands of images — to the BBC. When they rudely declined the offer, she burned the entire archive. This was a devastating loss to cultural historians, since unique images from television of the mid-20th century were destroyed in that intentional blaze. Certainly, the negatives to ''Doctor Who'' tele-snaps were lost ''en masse'' at this point. But it was also probable that tele-snaps that we now consider "missing" were destroyed then, too. | After Cura died in 1969, his widow offered his complete collection of negatives and prints — literally hundreds of thousands of images — to the BBC. When they rudely declined the offer, she burned the entire archive. This was a devastating loss to cultural historians, since unique images from television of the mid-20th century were destroyed in that intentional blaze. Certainly, the negatives to ''Doctor Who'' tele-snaps were lost ''en masse'' at this point. But it was also probable that tele-snaps that we now consider "missing" were destroyed then, too. | ||
