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Smilin Ed H
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« on: June 17, 2015, 09:08:11 AM »

Any Laurel and Hardy fans here? It seems like the missing footage has finally been found:

http://fridaynightboys300.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/laurel-and-hardys-battle-of-century.html

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« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2015, 02:11:20 PM »

Don't really care about L&H, but the article that followed , on Nitrate films, was very interesting!!
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« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2015, 07:27:54 PM »

Thanks for posting. Love a good pie fight and these guys were the best at it. Big fan here with my favorite being the piano episode. Incredible restoration as well!
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« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2015, 11:12:54 PM »

To think how many films have been lost - not just through deterioration, but wilful destruction at the beginning of the sound ers...
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« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2015, 11:30:31 PM »

As a L&H fan(I have a 22 dvd box set of them Grin), this just made me so many kinds of happy!  w00t! Now if we can just find "Hats Off"...
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« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2015, 10:04:11 AM »

As a L&H fan(I have a 22 dvd box set of them Grin), this just made me so many kinds of happy!  w00t! Now if we can just find "Hats Off"...

+1 as they say on the Hoffman board.
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« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2015, 10:54:26 PM »

To think how many films have been lost - not just through deterioration, but wilful destruction at the beginning of the sound ers...

I think the saddest tale of all lost footage (if it be true) is the missing reels of Greed: they were originally considered lost since the twenties and the savage cuts made by both von Stroheim and MGM (42 reels down to 23 and eventually 12, or about 145 minutes), but a 1993 book claimed that in the late 50s/early 60s that several reels labelled "McTeague" were discovered in the company's vaults and destroyed because no-one knew what they really were.
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« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2015, 03:53:08 AM »

I recall reading once that a staggeringly high number of silent fims were destroyed once the talkies came along.
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« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2015, 04:53:21 PM »

Sadly true: the two most quoted figures are that 75% of all silents have been lost forever, and that 90% of all pre-1929 American movies have been in some way lost.

Probably the most famous lost silents are "London After Midnight", "The Queen Of Sheba" and "The Mountain Eagle".
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« Reply #9 on: July 16, 2015, 08:48:56 PM »

Haven't seen very many of the L&H silents. Are they avail. in a somewhat comprehensive DVD boxed set?
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« Reply #10 on: July 19, 2015, 10:27:50 AM »

Haven't seen very many of the L&H silents. Are they avail. in a somewhat comprehensive DVD boxed set?

Are you in the UK?
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« Reply #11 on: July 19, 2015, 11:18:43 AM »

No.
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« Reply #12 on: July 19, 2015, 01:08:47 PM »

No.

Ah damn, I'd spotted an in-store offer that may have been of use if you were.
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