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Once again, The Song of Bernadette is a beautiful nitrate production from Fox in a slightly "challenged" format, based upon secondary elements.
Photographed by Arthur C. Miller, I'd have loved to have seen what this might have looked like from the original negative, or a high end fine grain master.
Mr. Miller began his career in 1909, working for Bison, and quickly moved on to Pathe, Keystone and Astra, before joining Famous Players / Paramount in 1919.
Along the way, he photographed the original Perils of Pauline (1912), The Cheat (1923). Those interested can research him further, but he ended up at Fox in 1932, and stayed there. A short list of him accomplishments:
The Little Colonel
Pigskin Parade
Wee Willie Winkie
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Little Miss Broadway
The Little Princess (3-strip)
Submarine Patrol
Young Mr. Lincoln
The Rains Came
The Blue Bird (3-strip)
Johnny Apollo
Brigham Young
The Mark of Zorro
Tobacco Road
How Green Was My Valley
The Ox-Boy Incident
The Song of Bernadette
Lifeboat
Dragonwyck
Anna and the King of Siam
The Razor's Edge
Gentlemen's Agreement
A Letter to Three Wives
Whirlpool
The Gunfighter
You see where this is going.
All of them.
Destroyed in the mid-1970s.
With apologies, I see these things, and I get angry.
The Song of Bernadette is not some Bible-thumping melodrama. This is a quality film that will have it's way with the viewer.
Great film, in it's roadshow form. Great performances and direction.
And it look very decent.
Image - 3.5
Audio -4
Recommended.
RAH
Photographed by Arthur C. Miller, I'd have loved to have seen what this might have looked like from the original negative, or a high end fine grain master.
Mr. Miller began his career in 1909, working for Bison, and quickly moved on to Pathe, Keystone and Astra, before joining Famous Players / Paramount in 1919.
Along the way, he photographed the original Perils of Pauline (1912), The Cheat (1923). Those interested can research him further, but he ended up at Fox in 1932, and stayed there. A short list of him accomplishments:
The Little Colonel
Pigskin Parade
Wee Willie Winkie
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Little Miss Broadway
The Little Princess (3-strip)
Submarine Patrol
Young Mr. Lincoln
The Rains Came
The Blue Bird (3-strip)
Johnny Apollo
Brigham Young
The Mark of Zorro
Tobacco Road
How Green Was My Valley
The Ox-Boy Incident
The Song of Bernadette
Lifeboat
Dragonwyck
Anna and the King of Siam
The Razor's Edge
Gentlemen's Agreement
A Letter to Three Wives
Whirlpool
The Gunfighter
You see where this is going.
All of them.
Destroyed in the mid-1970s.
With apologies, I see these things, and I get angry.
The Song of Bernadette is not some Bible-thumping melodrama. This is a quality film that will have it's way with the viewer.
Great film, in it's roadshow form. Great performances and direction.
And it look very decent.
Image - 3.5
Audio -4
Recommended.
RAH