Not that I noticed (French) but I guess the busts of the three meant they were dead? The subs were done by you, so I assume it's the only version with English subs.... It ends a bit jumpy with and an anticlimax, yes. Swanson suddenly turns up very much alive; Seneca holds her at spearpoint but her ...

I must have missed something at the end since it seems to end abruptly after Swanson survives the drowning attempt. IMDb says the film is 104 minutes; this version is 82 and has English subs..... Does your version contain an extended ending (last 2 minutes of the film) spoken in French? IMDB says 8...

Watched this bizarre comic send-up of Nero. The film is directed by Steno, a prolific Italian writer/director. I only watched it for Gloria Swanson's performance as Agrippina, and she's terrific. Cast also incluldes Alberto Sordi as Nero, Brigitte Bardot as Poppea, and Vittorio De Sica as Seneca. A...

Was going to say Cleopatra from 1917, but I was able to see the photo reconstruction at one point and now I almost feel as if I HAVE seen it.
Erm... The film footage of ragtime composer Scott Joplin?

She did some vaudeville too, made a few vitaphone shorts of those acts. At least one of those survives on film but is still waiting for the sound discs to be found. I don't think they were very succesful, but I could be wrong. This is just what I picked up from glances at one or two reviews.

Of course that "view...was not uncommon in the mid 30s." But why "repugnant? Was it incorrect? I would have thought that re-ordering a country by oppressing its religious and political minorities, and pandering to the basest instincts of the remainder, is pretty repugnant by most objective measures...

I don't doubt that certain moguls either turned a blind eye to the German political situation, either out of naivete or vague support for what they thought was being achieved. The view that Hitler had revitalised the country after its post-WWI slump is quite rightly repugnant to us today, but it wa...

There's no telling about the book itself, but the review is both inaccurate and determined to paint everything in the worst possible light. One hopes that does not come from the book. Sometimes people can't resist. The temptation of cheap sensationalism is just too great, especially with the WWII f...

This sounds strange. A bit of a Godwin perhaps. Is there any truth in it, or is it just some scattered facts that shouldn't be connected like that? What about The Great Dictator? I also know that cinemas boycotted German films in 1938. (I found that "Amphitryon" (1935) had once been dubbed, but no-o...

Oh, some of the people here could obviously only come from the USA, sadly for the rest of them I don't mean that in a positive way, so I will not go into detail. C'mon moderators, really?? This is what happens when you let people make up accounts with BS names. You want it to stop, changes the rule...

Oh, some of the people here could obviously only come from the USA, sadly for the rest of them I don't mean that in a positive way, so I will not go into detail. But I was surprised to read some interesting and constructive things here after all: Preservation is an end in itself regardless of exhibi...

There's a real Tom Sawyer in the US, not a silent film persona, but still: What where his parents thinking? I believe the name Caligari was taken from real life, so I suppose on second though there was always the chance one of them might become a doctor. What would really surprise me would be to mee...

Or a private collector might have (part of) it. It's optimistic, but it's always possible. These things happen, but rarely to the movies that we are waiting for in particular. By the way, does the 1916 version still exist? There is so much photo material from the lost 1917 Cleopatra that a photo rec...

If I may ask, why is ""lost"" between quotation marks, when the movie is actually lost? Or isn't it?

Ray Faiola wrote:What happens to the 1:33 aspect ratio?

Good question! It might look weird in places if they changed that.

On the very first page you wrote: "when you have the very last known copy you ought to allow an archive to make a transfer just to ensure its survival. Well, do you think us collectors just bring films to archives and they make copies for the benefit of their archive?? That's right, and I don't thi...

Not as much "magic" jokes as I'd expected.

boblipton wrote:And to think that people complain they aren't doing enough towards making films available in the face of these terrible losses.

Bob

And here I was, thinking you were talking nonsense!

The human race has already experimented with the concept of everything belongs to the people, where private property including works of art and collectables were seized for museums where everyone could enjoy them. It was called communism. We've seen how well that worked out. China's still going str...

Do you think you have rights to items that I own for such a reason? I way beg to differ. Yes, that was exactly what I said, and not at all a straw man . I know a lot of film collectors and so far I've never met one of 'em who wasn't more than generous about sharing their films.The constant bitching...

Lots of stuff is lost. The Library of Alexandria was burnt, replaced with the library of Pergamum and that's gone. Some of Shakespeare's plays were burnt by a cook. Meanwhile, look at the news section, where a bunch of selfish collectors have banded together under the aegis of Ben Model and the gen...

and the point of this poll would be what? You gonna pass a law? Do I have to take my prints and hide in the woods? Ah come on now, that sounds a bit paranoid. First of all it would be a very unusual law, and secondly who would care enough to pass it? (Blink.) Is that a "must" there? You should reth...

Yes, I am grateful for those things... is that puzzling? No it's not, why do you ask? Only thing is, that doesn't mean I'm not at the same time still curious about lost/inaccessible films. What bugs me in this thread is that there is an entitled us vs. them attitude implicit in it. I don't think "v...

We live in the golden age of accessibility-- we have much of the best of every age preserved for us and available at our whim, I can walk over to my DVD shelf and choose from Keaton to Mosjoukine to Reiniger to Pickford without batting an eye-- but even so, there are countless things that only surv...

Mitchell Dvoskin wrote:Are you saying that if an archival institution does not have a coffee machine, it is not an archive?

Glad you understand, because that's exactly what I was saying. Luckily no-one's trying to twist my words.

That's a bit far fetched, don't you think? Last week I went to the MoMa and saw a film projected just for me. I don't see that happening very quickly at a private collector's garden shed. But no-one's making accusations like that, so relax. You obviously don't live close to me. Have you asked? Ther...

Blaming "hoarding" collectors for the unavailability of rare/lost titles is bull dung. Remind me where they were squarely blamed in the first place? And while we are bantering around terms, why don't we substitute "collector" with "private archive". I don't see the difference. That's a bit far fetc...

A sad story, because the real victims are the films and the audience. The average fan won't be able to see, or will generally not even know about it, unless you are on intimate terms with the collector who does have ASIB (or any other film) uncut. The average fan doesn't care, they are happy with w...

" I cannot believe this conversation has gone on this long and no one has referenced the situation of the uncut A Star Is Born (1954) and private collecting... " Why, what is the story there? http://www.thejudyroom.com/asib/asib-article.html" target="_blank A sad story, because the real victims are...

I cannot believe this conversation has gone on this long and no one has referenced the situation of the uncut A Star Is Born (1954) and private collecting. Why, what is the story there? That's what this forum is for after all, to hear those stories. There is no final authority/source/truth about th...

The lenticular process wasn't exactly like CBS's color wheel system used for tv. The print was processed like black and white film, but had a lenticular pattern on it that would show up in color when a special filter was used on the lens to project it. Kodak developed it as a less expensive way for...