Film footage

Someone contacted us looking for film/tv footage of his mother who gave a poetry reading here in 1982. I checked, and we didn't have it. The important point is that I double checked with Alex Alexandrov in TV, and there is no film archive, no film library of TV footage. She reminded me that many years ago I got the old stuff she had then, the old ECC college tour films etc. They apparently do not maintain an archive of footage they have shot.