lost films

I'd love to see a complete version of Orson Welles's Don Quixote after reading what Rosenbaum said about it in his review of Man of La Mancha:

http://www.chireader.com/movies/archives/2003/0203/030221.html

LOL!

http://us.imdb.com/SearchTrivia?for=lost

cool: http://m.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/08/28/discovery-of-long-lost-silent-film-with-all-indian-cast-has-historians-reeling-131494

Now if they can just find those 4 episodes of The Secret Storm from 1968 w/ a 63 yo Joan Crawford playing the role of a 28 yr old

a brief but incredible fragment of the 1917 Cleopatra has been found and restored by a collector.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwPZuyF2Th0

whoa! that's really cool.

She’s dressed like Alistair Crowley

ha well there's much to be said about recurring conceptions of non-Judeo-Christian religious presentation in western art

TIL: theodosia burr goodman aka theda bara was named after (notorious scamp vice president and hamilton-shooter) aaron burr's daughter theodosia burr

Also an interesting line of inquiry would be Hollywood actresses of that era putting assuming exotic Eastern European (?) identities.

well her dad actually was from poland (and her mum from switzerland) but the studios favoured a tale that she was from egypt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_a_Factory_Girl?wprov=sfti1

rather momentous find in Omaha: a lost Clara Bow movie

https://www.wowt.com/2024/03/08/exclusive-100-years-later-long-lost-silent-film-found-omaha-parking-lot/

An 11 minute comedy short from 1923, it transpires

Every few months something turns up; it just usually isn't as big news as The Pill Pounder. I'm more excited that The Gorilla (1927) and Go and Get It (1920) were found in a Milan archive and will be screened at this year's San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Is anyone here going?

I have work that week or I'd go. Increasingly I feel the need to travel for these and I hope to get to a few in the next couple of years.

give me the uncut Magnificent Ambersons!!!!!!

So this past weekend at AFI Silver I saw the rediscovered "The Pill Pounder." It is primarily a vehicle for Charlie Murray (Who? I assume Steve Massa is working up a summary of his career) as a pharmacist/henpecked family man. Bow is his daughter (she doesn't have much to do but she's brilliant at running around and projecting youthful energy). Her father gives her young whelp of a beau a Bromo Seltzer that he then thinks was poison; much running and panicking ensues.

This is one reel of a two-reel comedy. The collector who found this did not find the other half among the films he bought. However, be bought a small part of a huge film library; it's not impossible that someone else acquired the other half and hasn't yet realized it. And the collector bought a bunch of canisters because one was labeled "The Sorrows of Satan." That survives and is available on YouTube in a terrible copy. But I'd love to see this restored if any better elements survive.

I am so stoked that you were there to see this -- when it was found it was so exciting

rather momentous find in Omaha: a lost Clara Bow movie

https://www.wowt.com/2024/03/08/exclusive-100-years-later-long-lost-silent-film-found-omaha-parking-lot/

― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, March 9, 2024 1:43 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

The good news: At least one other film has emerged from this lot.
The bad news: It is a short featuring El Brendel ("Serve Yourself," 1927?). And his number one fan procured, restored, and screened it at Capitolfest earlier today.

More good news: The Gorilla also screened at Capitolfest. It is complete (as far as I can tell), it is good shape by nitrate film standards, and it is entertaining. Don't miss it if it's playing near you.