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Re: Exciting Discovery of DRACULA Film Element!
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Originally Posted by Bob Furmanek
I just saw this amazing news on the Classic Horror Film Board:
"Got some truly exciting news that I think everyone here will be rejoicing over. My daughter was talking to one of her old coworkers at the Library of Congress this morning. Apparently after the negative press about the recent DVD of DRACULA, he decided to conduct a further search for better film elements last summer. He was rewarded for his efforts by discovering a complete nitrate lavender fine grain composite from 1930 that no one, including Universal knew about. He said it's in pristine condition and is absolutely gorgeous. The capper to this is that it DOES contain the complete epilogue. It's now in the hands of Universal. Hopefully they'll be making this available in some form soon."
Let's hope this is not a hoax...
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NICE! I already own 3 versions of this, I'll buy a 4th DVD! Please let it be real!! XD
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Re: Exciting Discovery of DRACULA Film Element!
I would like to see this as well......I'm hoping for Universal to go Blu-Ray someday in the near future and release this.....that would really be fantastic.
Maybe the person who found the print should start conducting a search for some of the lost films.....'London After Midnight' comes immediately to mind......you never know....
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Re: Exciting Discovery of DRACULA Film Element!
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Originally Posted by Steve...O
Thanks for the post, Bob!
Great news if true, but.....it was on that same forum where a respected poster said that Warner found the Spider Pit sequence from King Kong and was going to include it on the DVD. Obviously that wasn't true and it turned out that Peter Jackson had merely recreated it.
I guess we'll find out soon enough if this pans out. It also begs the question why Universal couldn't find something that a LoC worker bee could.
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Warner Bros. only recently found out about the forgotten camera negatives to a lot of Warner and MGM films stored at the George Eastman House (like The Champ '31 and David Copperfield) When you consider how many movies a studio owns, plus the amount of film stored for each title - it's not unthinkable that stuff can easily become lost or thought to be lost.
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Re: Exciting Discovery of DRACULA Film Element!
This only goes to prove that there's still hope for film preservation! When you consider how in recent years pristine original prints for films like King Kong (found in the UK and used for the DVD) have been found along with the discovery of seemingly 'lost' films like Beyond The Rocks with Swanson and Valentino, it gives everyone more of an incentive to do more searching. By the end of the year, don't be surprised if even more big discoveries are found, and not just from the silent era!
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Re: Exciting Discovery of DRACULA Film Element!
while i wait to see if anything materializes with this i dont think it will happen anytime soon. actualy i woul be willing to go all out with the ford at fox idea as well, but only if they were truly intent on doing it corectly, but with the sets that they have been releasing exclusivly at best buy, the idea o a single release for Dracula complete and restored to what brownning originaly intended would be a sight to behold,
the thing is that the spanish language version followes the same script, different actors of course and of course is longer , i want to see those missing sceens that were edited out of a film that is 76 or so years old, but i belive that everyone is waiting to see the film as it was originaly intended
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