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Re: Lost Films

#401 Post by cdnchris » Wed Nov 11, 2015 2:12 am

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Clearly it could happen to anyone.

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Re: Lost Films

#402 Post by Saturnome » Wed Nov 11, 2015 2:17 am

I doubt it actually is a picture of London After Midnight's original camera negative, so what do you know

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Re: Lost Films

#407 Post by Michael Kerpan » Wed Sep 07, 2016 11:01 pm

Correction -- near complete "abridged" version. The write-ups on this discovery are (sadly) a bit misleading.

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#413 Post by swo17 » Fri Mar 03, 2017 4:43 pm

Awesome!

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#414 Post by FrauBlucher » Fri Mar 03, 2017 5:09 pm

Even this sounds juicy....
“I succeeded in stealing it but I can’t possibly give more details about how it was done,” Makhmalbaf told the Guardian ..... would love to hear this.

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Re: Lost Films

#415 Post by Perkins Cobb » Wed Mar 15, 2017 6:28 pm

Joe Sarno's The Naked Fog (1966). A mouth-watering find.

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Re: Lost Films

#416 Post by rockysds » Thu Mar 30, 2017 5:45 am

Rupert Julian's Silence (1926) has been found at the Cinémathèque Française and part (23 minutes) of the Wallace Beery/Louise Brooks comedy Now We're in the Air was found in the Czech National Archive. Both restorations will world premiere at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.


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Re: Lost Films

#418 Post by Jonathan S » Thu Apr 13, 2017 3:20 am

I don't know the length of the newly discovered copy but Grapevine have been selling a a 75 minute version for several years.

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#419 Post by Ashirg » Mon Jul 24, 2017 11:20 pm

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Re: Lost Films

#421 Post by TMDaines » Thu Aug 10, 2017 9:16 am

Two years old, but still interesting. The finder posted on Nitrateville.

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Re: Lost Films

#422 Post by Quiche » Thu Aug 31, 2017 8:32 am

Would you consider films that are not readily available to the viewing public as "lost films" even if you know they are still somewhere and intact? I've been wanting to watch Uma (1941) for about 3-4 months now and I can't seem to track down a copy online or in VHS form

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Re: Lost Films

#423 Post by JSC » Thu Mar 15, 2018 9:12 am

There's a film that I've been hoping would turn up sometime, somewhere.
But so far no such luck.

The film is Alpha Beta. It's a British film from 1976 and stars Albert
Finney and Rachel Roberts. It's based on a play by E.A. Whitehead and
directed by Anthony Page. As far as I can tell it had a theatrical release in
Britain and the US (although in some books it is erroneously referred to
as a television production).

I could easily see this as a BFI flipside release or something along those
lines. Anyone have some info on this?

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#424 Post by Jonathan S » Thu Mar 15, 2018 9:34 am

According to BBC Genome, it appears to have been transmitted twice on BBC2 in 1974 - assuming it is indeed the same production (cast and director match up), whether made for cinemas or TV.

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Re: Lost Films

#425 Post by JSC » Thu Mar 15, 2018 10:29 am

According to BBC Genome, it appears to have been transmitted twice on BBC2 in 1974 -
assuming it is indeed the same production (cast and director match up), whether made for
cinemas or TV.
I assume it's the same production. According to imdb, the film was made by
Albert Finney's own company Memorial Enterprises. I don't see any indication
that the BBC was involved in the production per se. So it might have been
originally planned to premiere on television, followed by a theatrical release.

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