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film of bridge blowing up was almost lost forever by olson

Ben Mankowitz of Turner Classic Movies usually tells this story at the end of the film 'Bridge on the River Kwai' on TMC:

The explosion at the end of the movie was filmed from several different angles...naturally, since the bridge was actually blown up-there was no second take...well, actually there was:

The explosion was due to occur one day in March, 1957...but at the last moment Director Lean realized that one of the cameramen filming the action had not cleared the explosion 'zone'....so Lean called off the detonation...the train crossing the bridge in that climatic scene safely made it to the other side-where it collided with a generator.

The train was repaired (they were just going to wreck it anyway) and the filming resumed the next day.

This time the dramatic explosion and train falling into the river worked like clockwork.

The film of the sensational finish (no copies existed yet) was put in canisters to be send to London. The plan was to put the canisters on a ship to head directly to London-with no stops...but due to the Suez crisis that had closed the canal, the producers were forced to send the film via air cargo...this involved numerous flights & transfers of the precious canisters...why no one was sent with the film was never explained...

Later when the canisters failed to arrive in London as expected, panic set in. A worldwide hunt was set in motion to find the missing film-as mentioned, no copies existed.

Five days later the canisters were found-sitting on a tarmac at an airport in Cairo. They had been sitting in the hot sun for those 5 days....the color film was heat sensitive -the worst was expected...but miraculously the film of the bridge explosion was fine-somehow surviving the heat of the Egyptian sun