Cassy_w

LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT is not lost

Mr. Harris, this is astonishig news, but news that is not complete. Apparently there is a print out there of this long 'lost' film, just waiting to be found. It was found once before, but the guy who came across it was a low level employee who couldn't get anyone to listen to him. Since that find the print was moved, along with thousands of other prints, to a different location.

Full story here.

LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT - LOST CLASSIC FOUND! - SILENT BUT DEADLY (1920's and earlier) - MOVIES BY CATEGORY - THE HORROR DRUNX - Horror Movie Message Boards - Message Board - Yuku

This is far too important to just let go, which is why I bring it to Mr. Harris' attention.

Death to PG-13! And now death to DVNR too!!

Eric Peterson

Re: LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT is not lost

While this was an interesting read and it certainly merits a database search of all said facilities, I will remain skeptical. There are certain parts of his story that simply don't make sense. Why all of the secrecy? If this is true, he found a lost film that would be a publicity boon for whomever ran the facility as well as a money maker for whomever owned the print. In the story, it's treated more like he found an alien spacecraft or Hitler's body, which makes no sense.

Nonetheless, I'll keep my fingers crossed and hopefully this story makes it to Geroge Feltenstein so due dilligence can be performed.

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Billy Wilder

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Cassy_w

Re: LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT is not lost

The folks who found the 16mm METROPOLIS print had a hard time proving it. No one wanted to believe them, so I can see this as being possible.

Hope so.

Death to PG-13! And now death to DVNR too!!

Michael Elliott

Re: LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT is not lost

Michael Blake and various others have spoken up and why this story is a fake. Not to mention the fact that the writer, after keeping this secret for 10 years, has now left and won't be able to be reached until Sunday.

Not to mention that there are several errors in the story.

Check out CHFB for some reactions.

Anything is possible and I hope Warner at least gives a quick look but the story just has too many errors in it.

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Dan1

Re: LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT is not lost

Also the guy's name "Sid Terror" doesn't inspire too much confidence in his story.

Jeff Swindoll

Re: LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT is not lost

Wot! You don't trust a website called Horror Drunx?

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Steve...O

Re: LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT - still lost

Shame on me for wasting 10 minutes of my life reading the tall tale in the link.

So, we are supposed to believe that an internet poster who refuses to use his own name and posts on a site that nobody has heard of found a film that archivists and historians spent years looking for? On top of that, said poster keeps quiet about it for 2 decades?

Please. There are more productive, and honorable, ways of increasing traffic at one's website.

JohnRice

Re: LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT is not lost

If people don't have more sense, Robert Harris' Insiders section can end up filled with this kind of thread. They haven't exactly been rare lately.

They flutter behind you, your possible pasts.
Some bright-eyed and crazy, some frightened and lost.

RickER

Re: LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT is not lost

Well, you know, you find one movie thats had 20 minutes missing for 80 years. Everything comes in 3s, right?

Robert Harris

Re: LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT is not lost

I doubt this is true.