re: They are missing, NOT erased
I hope you are right and that at least the backup Tapes will be found. I do have a nit pick here. You refer to them as film. It always bothers me a little that people mix up film and tape and say film when they mean tape. Film is an optical process, tape is a magnetic process. You can't erase film but you can erase tape. Of course now tape is becoming obsolete. Most things are now digital and can be recorded on any number of media, like DVD and flash memory, as well as tape.