I posted the Juggernaut YouTube video because I knew that film had a similar train crash on water, but from the strips you posted, it doesn't look like the same film. A few shots looked very similar, I thought, but the youtube video was a "digest" so I thought that was perhaps just an abridged vers...

So one of them is 3 minutes from Juggernaut (1915) which is partially missing. Interesting, but what would be the best place for this?

On a local second-hand site I spotted two fragments of silent movies. Pic 1 is from a thriller/crime??, pic 2 and 3 feature a train crash into a rising river and a woman being rescued (ca. 3 minutes).
Can anyone identify them? Anything important?

BFI lists the running footage as 1450 feet, which is shorter that the 20 or so minutes of running time. Of course this could be wrong, so someone close to BFI should try to view it if complete. If so I am sure we van get funding to make a new print. Excellent! A recording of the 16mm print exists, ...

LouieD wrote:BFI's print is about 3-4 minutes shorter than the one Rich and I have seen.

At the BFI I didn't see a total running time anywhere for their copy? So how can we tell if it's shorter?

LouieD wrote:BFI's print is about 3-4 minutes shorter than the one Rich and I have seen.

Perhaps the 16mm print has an extra scene somewhere? This is the kind of thing that will probably be overlooked if it ever gets a DVD release.

That must be the collector somewhere in New England who was rumoured to have the only copy on 16mm, but who preferred to remain anonymous. You were lucky, but for the rest of the world who don't happen to know him, it didn't exist. It's for example skipped in the book (by Watz I think). Just to cor...

Yes, more is sometimes less, although I always enjoy seeing what was cut.

Both of you have had a private message from me.

The vitaphone project knows about this, right?

coolcatdaddy wrote:Sometimes, old tv showings of movies turn up interesting material.

Or the TV version cuts some sex/violence to be more family friendly, and puts in some other scenes to make up for the lost time.

ClarenceE wrote:The Internet Archive (archive.org) has some of the Studio One productions.

Those have been released on DVD as well.

Well, I know some people who have copies. But can you be more specific? What do you want them for, and what shows/episodes in particular? (There might be hundreds of episodes like that. Several are on DVD, some are public domain, some are available but from shady sources...) I was recently looking i...

Not sure this is the proper board, but he is talking in this Smithsonian article: We Had No Idea What Alexander Graham Bell Sounded Like. Until Now http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/We-Had-No-Idea-What-Alexander-Graham-Bell-Sounded-Like-Until-Now-204137471.html" target="_blank" targ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lmulibrary/8655364855/in/set-72157633259466091/" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank That one says Blythe & Leiber below, which would make it Queen of Sheba (1921); but it might also be Theda Bara and Thurston Hall, which would make this a scene from Cleopatra...

What about the rumour of a 9.5mm copy of Metropolis that was found in Chile? It doesn't seem anything was done with that.

Sounds terribly exciting! Wish I could help but I'm probably not good enough. For those who can't wait, the French national film archive tries to identify some stuff on their website: http://www.cnc-aff.fr/internet_cnc/Internet/ARemplir/AideInconnu.aspx?Menu=MNU_AIDEID" target="_blank" target="_blan...

By the way, speaking of Swanson I just want to say that Mio filgio Nerone, or Nero's Weekend/Mistress, which is usually panned, wasn't actually that bad. It's just that the English dub really changed what the film was about by swapping scenes around and dubbing totally different lines, enlarging Bar...

Siegfried Kracauers FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER is indeed an interesting book, the only problem is it's wrong, and Kracauer does indeed distort the facts regarding the amount of influence the dark-souled expressionist German films had on the German Public at large at the time. The truth is, a lot of th...

Too bad all those millions of illegal aliens don't wake up...and return whence they came. Sorry for the native Americans, but we in Europe don't want all the white Americans back. Or the white South Africans, or those criminals the UK sent to Australia. They'll have to stay where they are now, ther...

But anyway, speaking about correct subtitles for the HoH, right now you could for example catch some for episodes of Are you being served?, Dad's Army, and I, Claudius. For example: AYBS.

entredeuxguerres wrote:No sarcasm intended...nor do I perceive any really obvious reason to jump to that conclusion.

In that case, please forget I mentioned it. I was perhaps still thinking of Telical who was a bit skeptical.

I don't know if anything has changed since 2009/2009, but Peter Greenwood was using heavy-handed tactics to try to obtain prints of this TV series. When a reputable 16mm dealer listed prints for sale on eBay, Mr Greenwood had the auctions stopped because he claimed that the Jack Chertok productions...

How helpful to have a convenient label or category--"the Stigler phenomenon"--for all such historical errors & injustices, which anyone looking deeply into almost any subject can expect to find. Strange that not one of my many college science courses considered it worthy of mention; thanks for brin...

...Truth doesn't need to matter in such cases... That's just it, don't you see? We label someone "Hero (here, an inventor)" but that is almost always a careless generalisation. It's probably born out of our need for simplicity and stereotypes. If you want a proper citation then there's Mike Green T...

Perhaps it's not too far off topic to mention that Edison wasn't the first to invent the light bulb even if the history books say he did. From Wikipedia: Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (31 October 1828 – 27 May 1914) was a British physicist and chemist. He is most famous for inventing an incandescent light...

I've also noticed that sometimes it appears that the close captioning on TV shows does not reflect the final edit of the film. Sometimes there are lines in the captioning that have been edited from the soundtrack. Sometimes it even seems to be a previous draft of the script as the captioning has to...

Some studios (can you hear me, Paramount?) don't really seem to care much about their older films and in many cases do not even have film elements. They probably don't know they own them. No, Paramount can't hear you. The Paramount collection (1929-1947) is owned by Universal, which explains why th...

LouieD wrote:

Spiny Norman wrote:They list enough details to make it very likely. I had someone look into it before (from the Masquers who seem to own it) but he didn't get very far.

As I said before, I have someone on it who should have the correct details soon.

Can't wait - keep us informed.

Is voice recognition what they use for the captions on news programs? My mother was watching the news with the captions on a couple weeks ago and reported that the voice said the Pope was preaching the Gospel of Jesus, but the caption read "the Gospel of Cheeses" greta Possibly they use it for live...