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07-24-2008, 12:39 PM
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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.
"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award."
Billy Wilder
"This business has come a long way in the last 30 years, but why should I depress you"
I.A.L. Diamond on the Movie Business (1986)
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07-24-2008, 01:34 PM
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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!!
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07-24-2008, 04:44 PM
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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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07-24-2008, 05:35 PM
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Also the guy's name "Sid Terror" doesn't inspire too much confidence in his story.
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07-24-2008, 09:42 PM
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Also the guy's name "Sid Terror" doesn't inspire too much confidence in his story.
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Wot! You don't trust a website called Horror Drunx? 
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07-24-2008, 11:37 PM
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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.
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07-25-2008, 09:01 AM
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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.
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07-25-2008, 09:41 AM
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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.
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Well, you know, you find one movie thats had 20 minutes missing for 80 years. Everything comes in 3s, right? 
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07-25-2008, 11:53 AM
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I doubt this is true.
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07-25-2008, 12:04 PM
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Re: LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT - still lost
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...Please. There are more productive, and honorable, ways of increasing traffic at one's website.
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Good point about site traffic and the posting was long and annoyingly cluttered with graphics. These "lost film" b.s. stories all sound the same. Some person/executive/manager doesn't want the film released for some ridiculous/sinister/incompetent reason. The person who "finds" the lost film always has an equally b.s. reason for not contacting a legitmate entity like a newspaper or university with this earth shattering cinema news.
This guy added a twist by saying he found LAM years ago and has sat on his ass all this time with this info locked away in his little mind. I give him points for making up a nice convoluted story. He needs to get together with the guy at TCM who posted an equally convoluted b.s. story about how the full Ambersons remained in Brazil since 1941.
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