I'm watching a disc of "Virtue", the 1932 film with Caroel Lombard and Pat O'Brien and curious about the odd opening of the film.
After the main titles, we just have a black screen as the first scene plays out where the judge orders the prostitutes out of town. The next scene fades in from black with Lombard at the train station.
Was the film originally released that way or was that part of the visuals damaged or lost? The blank screen seems to go on for quite a while.
Odd opening of Virtue (1932)
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Re: Odd opening of Virtue (1932)
Apparently it has some lost visuals. Not sure of the story but it played that way in 35mm at the Wexner a few years ago.
Cinema has no voice, but it speaks to us with eyes that mirror the soul. ―Ivan Mosjoukine
Re: Odd opening of Virtue (1932)
The opening visuals are not lost they just have not been joined to the existing 35 materials.