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Post by Steven Sigel on Jan 22, 2011 0:05:37 GMT
Thought some of you might be interested -- I've located a silent feature from the 1920s that was not known to exist. Also with it were two other silent features where apparently prints exist, but of unknown condition. These are original 1920s prints with the tinted sections. Will post more details soon.
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Post by LanceM on Jan 22, 2011 7:14:25 GMT
This is fasinating news Steven.Exellent work there to be certain.Am curious,as did not mention the condition of ther recovered footage?What a great way to usher in the new year,discoveries from the Historical Silent Era.Is interesting as remember reading this last year (November I believe)In regards to some Silent Era Films which were found in a barn hay loft in the eastern US?Glad this material is not remaining silent,and speaking up as it were in regards to these fasinating discoveries of late!
Thank You again Steven in regards to the great news!
Cheers,Lance.
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Post by Peter Stirling on Jan 22, 2011 12:23:14 GMT
I once found an old silent film cooking programme, the edits appear to have been done on a sewing machine or something like it.
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Post by Robert Belford on Jan 25, 2011 2:02:11 GMT
That's great news. I hope you can get copies made. My experience with the one nitrate film that I had was that it turned to goo soon after being moved from the location where it had lain for 40 years perfectly OK.
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Post by Greg H on Jan 25, 2011 17:09:14 GMT
Any news on what features these mystery silents are as of yet? Do you know the titles of them? I would be interested to know  |
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Post by Steven Sigel on Jan 26, 2011 7:15:12 GMT
The film that is completely lost is called "Painting the Town" from 1927. The second film is called "The Beautiful Cheat" from 1926. I've been told that there 'might' be a print at UCLA of this one. The last film is "The Love Gamble" from 1925 which has another existing print (but not as nice as this one ). All three are tinted originals from the 20s. They are all going to be archived (not sure I'm at liberty to say where).
To Robert - these are 16mm safety prints from the 20s.. Not Nitrate.
To Lance - the prints are in amazingly good condition. Very little wear, and very few splices. They're actually tinted prints with the sections with different tints spliced together.
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Post by RWels on Feb 12, 2011 1:12:18 GMT
Had a similar find once. Middle reels of a silent drama and a complete silent comedy featuring elephants. Was going to get copies for my efforts, but sadly, never heard back from them.
On another note: when did the search for missing films (cinema) start? I'd imagine it was in the sixties, but that is just a guess. Could one say for example, "if they had looked at the history of cinema archiving they would have known not to wipe all those television episodes"?
A similar post is on another forum, but I have reworded it here, to avoid being mistaken for our resident copypaste artist.
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