About a week ago there was an ebay auction of footage from 1972's "Elvis On Tour" that was never seen before. It ended making some 30,000 $. The footage was silent but thankfully the audio recordings are making the bootleg scene and others were officially released so as you can imagine it didn't take long before someone synched the samples with matching sound. That is what you'll see below. First here is the text from the auction:
16mm Film KODACHROME ELVIS PRESLEY ON TOUR LOST UNUSED RAW FILM Hollywood Estate
This is a ONE OF A KIND reel of film here! 400ft Kodachrome silent. This is ORIGINAL LOST 16mm film footage shot for the Golden Globe winning 1972 Elvis On Tour film but not in the final cut of the film. Below is a watermarked video of the film that was shot with an iphone during projection. The quality will of course be much higher when professionally transferred. The commercially released version of the film used a split screen format which used footage from multiple cameras at the same time. The film leader is marked "White costume Elvis on stage J2/33 59063-805 Elvis head roll 46.
This footage has not been transferred and the winning bidder will have a one of a kind piece of Elvis memorabilia.
This was obtained from the estate of Emmy nominated John Detra.
Condition: GREAT. It ran smooth and without any problems. NO VINEGAR SMELL. If you have any other questions please feel free to contact me.
Please keep an eye on my auctions as I will be listing over 70 boxes of 16mm and 35mm from this estate.Synched with sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=22&v=pqqTDmgoeTchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPRe13LKhFsThis adds to the footage of rehearsals with an bored, tired and certainly medicated Elvis Presley that already came out in bootleg circles a long time ago.
To get an idea of that footage, look here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq_5CBm0SzQNot hard to imagine why this wasn't used in the final movie at all.
Here's the original trailer for the movie from 1972:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTQdZ0py8w4
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