Anybody able to spot Mae Murray in this? I can't. Would appreciate it if buffs with eagle eyes could also tell us some of the unidentified people are at various points (the film is on youtube and archive.org if you want to get specific to the second). And who are the two in the "star lineup" that a...

As a matter of fact, Selznick used the MGM lab to do the sepia-toning for Zenda and the next year for original release prints of The Young in Heart. And Selznick went back to MGM's lab in 1948 / 1949 to do the sepia section at the end of Portrait of Jennie.

Anthony

I work in an archive that has an incomplete nitrate print of The Prisoner of Zenda. It will probably come as a surprise to some people that audiences of 1937 enjoyed the film in prints toned a rich, warm sepia. Reviews I've read sometimes mention this fact, stating either the whole film was release ...

Just an FYI regarding the recent George Eastman Museum preservation of SALLY, IRENE AND MARY, you wrote: this survives thanks to James Card getting a fine grain back in the 50s . What James Card had printed in the 1950's was only a 16mm projection print reduced from the 35mm camera negative. For thi...

Your fragment is from the 1930 Warner Bros. Vitaphone (sound on disc which would explain lack of optical soundtrack) production THE SONG OF THE WEST, which I believe is lost. So your fragment is definitely worth preserving. I'm not sure how to post images I hope these work. [img] http://www.flickr.c...