Post by ajsmith on Sept 21, 2020 9:15:24 GMT
A query inspired by the brilliant RSG! book which I'm still working my way through.. I've never been able to see the film, but I've long heard that the 1965 Otto Preminger movie Bunny Lake Is Missing contains a dissapointingly tiny cameo by The Zombies, who are only seen briefly on a TV in a pub! But what I didn't realise until reading the book was that Preminger filmed them on the Wembley RSG! set for 2 days (9th and 10th April 1965) performing the following 3 songs:
Remember You
Just Out Of Reach
Nothing's Changed
Now the $1,000,000 question... is there ANY chance that the raw footage from that day still exists in a vault somewhere? Was Preminger the kind of director who kept all his rushes, or was he a Kubrick type who junked what he didn't use? If there's any chance that whoever handles the Preminger estate would still have material from those two days? I'm thinking of the possibilites here: Imagine how good this footage would look in some future Zombies documentary, with there not being a great deal of Zombies footage from the 60s at large, and none (I think?) on film.. also it would be quasi new RSG! footage by proxy, since it was filmed on the set, albeit not a performance that was used in an actual RSG episode and of course directed differently.
Is there any hope here, of is it a non starter? Anyone any ideas?
Remember You
Just Out Of Reach
Nothing's Changed
Now the $1,000,000 question... is there ANY chance that the raw footage from that day still exists in a vault somewhere? Was Preminger the kind of director who kept all his rushes, or was he a Kubrick type who junked what he didn't use? If there's any chance that whoever handles the Preminger estate would still have material from those two days? I'm thinking of the possibilites here: Imagine how good this footage would look in some future Zombies documentary, with there not being a great deal of Zombies footage from the 60s at large, and none (I think?) on film.. also it would be quasi new RSG! footage by proxy, since it was filmed on the set, albeit not a performance that was used in an actual RSG episode and of course directed differently.
Is there any hope here, of is it a non starter? Anyone any ideas?
