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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted May 11, 2017 11:11 AM
I don't know if any of you have done this as well, but I LOVE looking at different alternate versions of Blackhawk releases from different time periods. I've noticed this especially on the Laurel and hardy's and to a lesser extant, the Chaplins.
This is largely due to thier, at times, using different negatives from different sources. For instance, using a U.S. negative at one time, and then, later on, using a negative that comes from, say, the U.K.
A good example of this is the classic silent short "Big Business", (Laurel and Hardy 1929), in which, one of the prints has slightly different camera angles and such, literally, from shot to shot, (great short!)
Another good example is "East Street" (Chaplin). Comparing the earlier silent version and the later scored version, you see title cards being longer or shorter and shots being longer or shorter as well.
So, anybody else had fun doing this?
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Osi Osgood
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posted May 12, 2017 11:40 AM
The original "Dracula" is another good example of the two version s of the film produced at the same time for overseas markets. There was, of course, the US Lugosi version, and then, shot at the same time, a spanish version with different actors.
In some ways, the spanish version is better.
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