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Under the "TV Friends Forever" label, cult classics such as Pippi Longstocking, Heidi, Vicky the Viking, Speedy Gonzales, Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio, Nils Holgersson and many more are now available from relevant online portals such as Itunes and Musicload. All tape archives were examined once again for new songs and digitised true to the originals.
"We are delighted that the tapes, some of which date from the 1970s, could still be reproduced and that we were therefore able to recover several more treasures for soundtrack fans", says managing director Martin Weinert.
For the first time, all the music from these cult series is now available in full and with one "click". The original soundtrack from "Alf" is in preparation for the "TV Friends Forever" series.
The original recordings of the TV music come from the tapes in the former KirchGroup’s film archive, where they are stored together with the broadcast material. At the time, the film archive was the largest in Europe and still exists today.
These tapes were scanned on an “Augan” tape machine and then restored and digitised.
The current management had taken over FKM GmbH had in 2002 (after the insolvency of the KirchGroup) as part of a management buyout and, in the years that followed, ensured that the music publisher’s entire content (music and also sheet music) was digitised and made available for download to B2B and end customers.
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