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Topic: What Films did you show last night?
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Dino Everette
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1535
From: Long Beach, CA USA
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted April 02, 2012 11:59 PM
Osi - I believe it is BUT, anytime you say something is the first it seems something comes out of the woodwork and proves you wrong, but I believe it was the first...
Michael - No disrespect to the version you saw, but the Davis score is breathtakingly beautiful and fits the film to a tee, much more so than Carmine's....As for 16mm I have the earlier restored version with the Coppola score, and the 1928 MGM version on 16mm. OH and there were 3 intermissions (a 15 min ; a 2 hour dinner break ; a 20 min)
BUT I am back home now, and sadly we cannot watch the full restored Napoleon w/ davis score again (I wish I could watch that once a year to remind me of what a perfect use of the medium can be) so I had to bring myself back down to earth with a simple melodrama on Standard 8mm, the early WB feature BRASS (1923, Entertainment films 5r x 200ft) starring the beautiful Marie Prevost and Monte Blue, but it is Irene Rich that steals the show and saves this from being a forgettable programmer. That and a couple of shots like the one of the baby in the crib w/ the "prison bar" lighting which was extremely powerful showed that the director was no slouch. Truth is Director Sidney Franklin is one of the unsung greats in regards to melodrama, just check out The Good Earth and Mrs Miniver for proof.
-------------------- "You're too Far Out Miss Lawrence"
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted April 07, 2012 12:39 PM
Man Oh Man, do I envy you, Dino! I personally think that one of the best things about this archive of ancient prints that you have is that your able to see many (or most) of these films with thier original intertitles (I think that's the correct term), which were often replaced when they were re-released.
One of the nice things about a number of the earlier Blackhawk titles, is that the earliest Mutual titles were actually released with an advertisement after the "The End" titles are done, which was a clock spinning fast and the words, "Time Flies When Watching Mutual's" (that may not be verbatim!)
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Dino Everette
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1535
From: Long Beach, CA USA
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted April 08, 2012 12:06 AM
OK jealousy ends with tonight's film..
but first...Osi yes the old Mutual end credit was a great one, and it is a shame that many silents have had the credits remade, because often that was how they got around copyright.
But tonight in celebration of Easter I needed a good resurrection movie.....plus I have a soft spot for this movie since I ran it at my theater in Florida so many many years ago....Funny story In the 1990's I was managing a video store and was watching this movie on the TV monitors, when a customer comes up to the counter to check out..."Do you guys pick what plays or is this cable?" the customer asked.. - "Oh I pick the movies.....haha....You can't watch the good ones all the time..Why do you ask, did you work on the film?" I should explain that the video store was in Studio City, which is where tons of movie people live, which is why I asked that question...."Haha, yeah sort of." He replied.."I wrote and directed it." Ever since then I have had a personal attachment to Two of a Kind (1983, 2 x 1600ft 16mm) beyond the obvious silly 80's movie attraction.
-------------------- "You're too Far Out Miss Lawrence"
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James N. Savage 3
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1375
From: Washington, DC
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted April 13, 2012 05:54 AM
Hey Eric-
Yes, I remember when KEN FILMS started using the 'slightly' larger boxes for the 50 foot releases. It looked like it was for a 100' foot digest, but still just 50' feet .
Kids today would NEVER understand these types of hardships we went through back in the 70's. They have multiple movies on one small disk, or 1000's of choices on cable/on-demand, etc., completely jaded. I wouldn't trade places with them for anything. We could appreciate one 3-minute, silent, black-and-white, old movie, much more that they appreciate a full library of modern movies.....
Oops, I've gone off the rabbit trail again! Sorry.
Equinox- yes, that was a really bizaar movie, and an odd release for KEN at the time, as they usually stuck with simple monsters, like Godzilla, rather that a movie like this that dealt with the occult and other wierd stuff.
James.
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