Seeking copy of Hollywood Revuew of 1929

[ThelmaTodd]

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[ThelmaTodd]

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[Film_Fatale]

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> Here is the color list sorted to reflect films that now survive only as black & white. These too are valuable as programming choices for TCM:

 

That's an excellent list, Thelma! I hope TCM is listening.

[ThelmaTodd]

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[gagman66]

Thelma,

 

Buster Keaton's SEVEN CHANCES (1925), has never aired on TCM. But it is on DVD from Kino. The Amber tinted print is beautiful, but the Technicolor opening, is all faded to Orange. You would never know it was once Technicolor.

 

Douglas Fairbanks THE BLACK PIRATE (U. A. 1926) has been shown on Television. It has aired on both Cinemax a long time ago, and was broadcast in the 90's on the old American Movie Classics a handful of times. To the best of my knowledge TCM has not shown the film. at least not the American version of TCM. The film is on DVD from Kino.

 

The Colleen Moore feature IRENE (1926) is a First National Silent, so Warner Brothers may have a very good copy in their vault someplace? I have a DVD-R of this picture made from a worn 16 Millimeter reduction transfer. The final sequence the Fashion show was all in Technicolor but is badly faded. Maybe a well preserved print of the final reel, and the entire film is at Eastman House, UCLA, MOMA, or someplace?

 

Erich Von Stroheim's THE WEDDING MARCH (1928) was restored about 10 years ago, by Kevin Browlow's Photo-play Productions, and re-scored by the great Carl Davis. I would love to see this Channel Four Silent's Presentation of the film make it's American Television premier on TCM. Since it debuted in Britain in July of 1998, I would say the domestic broadcast is long over-due!

 

BEN HUR (1925), and THE KING OF KINGS (1927), are both on DVD, and both have aired on TCM, with Technicolor footage. However, TCM only shows the shortened version of the De Mille feature, and there is an additional color sequence on the Criterion DVD, that has not appeared on TCM. The BEN HUR DVD is missing about 3 minutes from the Thames restoration? I don't know why? Even Kevin Brownlow didn't know, but he wasn't happy about it!

 

I have a worn DVD-R copy of an old VHS of KING OF MAIN STREET (1925) with Adolphe Menjou, and Bessie Love. The Technicolor footage is not there.

 

I have a surprisingly good Boot-leg of STAGE STRUCK (1925). I have no idea where it originated from? The entire movie is in Technicolor, not just part of it. As this film was recently restored by Eastman House it is an Important title, With Gloria Swanson at the peak of her career at Paramount in the Mid 20's.

 

Thus far despite the DVD release REDSKIN (1929), hasn't popped up on TCM.

 

I have a very good copy of WHOOPEE (1930) on DVD-R, from Laser-disc. As far as I know this film has not been shown on TCM?

 

Incidentally, I sent you some information about the recent restoration of THE BIG PARADE last night, from the AMPAS March 2005 screening. Did you receive the message? I also found more refrences to a screening at another film festival of the restored version just last year.

[ThelmaTodd]

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[scottman1932]

A BLIND BARGAIN (1922) is a lost film.

As for the sound discs for REDSKIN, only three discs have been found, (for reels 1, 3 and 8) they were included on the TREASURES 3 collection as an alternate audio track when viewing the film.

Also, WHOOPEE! (1930) is an all Technicolor film, rather than a part color film.

[gagman66]

Thelma,

 

Glad that I could be helpful. Needed to mention, I have pretty decent recordings of both THE VIKING AND GOOD NEWS. Those films have been run on TCM. THE VIKING in color. Way past time for these films to be scheduled again!

 

Von Stroheim's THE MERRY WIDOW (1925) airs from time to time. As previously noted, THE BIG PARADE used to be shown fairly frequently, but not since they have been waiting on the new restoration.

 

I surely did not know that SHOW PEOPLE (1928) once had Technicolor footage, that's News to me? Would really like to learn if THE FLAMING FOREST (1926) with Antonio Mereno, and Renee Adoree still exists? I have conflicting information.

[Guest]

Yes WHOOPEE is all color and I believe it has aired on TCM

[gagman66]

Scottman,

 

Holy Smokes, that's great that like EVENGELINE at lest some of the recorded track for REDSKIN still survives! I've heard recordings of the theme song on youtube, and a few other places.

 

Even though I have the set, I have not watched this movie yet. In-fact I haven't done much more than glance over some of the material that came with it. I'll have to round this collection up, and give it some attention. Poor neglected thing!

[ThelmaTodd]

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[gagman66]

Thelma,

 

Sure, I have Thousands of capture stills from Silent films. Alas THE VIKING is not one of these, but I can generate some. I can send you some examples from other movies though in the meantime.

[ThelmaTodd]

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[scottman1932]

Hey Jeffrey,

When you get around to looking at TREASURES 3, be sure and check out SOUL OF YOUTH (1920), directed by the Ill-fated William Desmond Taylor.

It's a good film and the the print is first rate!

[MissGulch]

The lists posted here are a marvelous reference- a very big thank you Thelma for your vibrant energy with this epic thread which is the first thing I check in the morning...a relevant, interesting resource, along with the Silent Film Gallery and the discussion on BIRTH OF A NATION, a while back. The collective contribution of art is FABULOUS!

[ThelmaTodd]

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[ThelmaTodd]

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[gagman66]

Thelma,

 

 

From what I have seen, the footage on youtube of HUNCHBACK is a cheapy version, not the 2007 Two-hour David Shepard restoration. The new version was released on DVD last October by Image Entertainemt, as the "Ultimate Edition DVD". It is also the same as TCM currently airs.

 

Meantime, Success! I just posted some posters for THE BIG PARADE in the Silent Film Gallary thread! I will post the same ones here too!

[gagman66]

Thelma, Everyone,

 

Here we go, Four Vintage posters for King Vidor's THE BIG PARADE! Hope to find a sharper graphic of the second one, as it is a little soft, and out of focus.

 

I will post some stills from the movie later. Maybe a great Renee Adoree Portrait that I colorized as well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[gagman66]

Striking portrait of radiant Blue-Eyed French beauty Renee Adoree (Melisande, in THE BIG PARADE), that I colorized a few months ago. The girl "Justyne" (Claire Adams), who "Jimmy" (Gilbert), left back home, never had a prayer!

 

 

 

[gagman66]

 

In any language.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jimmy leaving for the front. Bids a found Farewell to Melisande.

[gagman66]

Add for the March 2005 West Coast Debut of the brand New Restoration at the Goldwyn Theater in Hollywood. Honoring the films 80th Anniversary. (Yes, this is the version we are still waiting to debut on TCM!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*With live music by the 19-piece Robert Israel Orchestra,*

 

*from the original film score.*

 

*Friday, March 18 at 8 p.m. in the Academy's*

 

*Samuel Goldwyn Theater*

 

 

King Vidor received five Academy Award nominations for directing between 1927 and 1956. He was the recipient of an Honorary Award in 1978 for "his incomparable achievements as a cinematic creator and innovator." The Big Parade, made two years before the founding of the Academy, certainly must be counted among those "incomparable achievements."

 

One of the first pictures to go into production after the formation of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1924, this moving WWI story was MGM's largest grossing film until the release of Gone with the Wind fourteen years later.

 

 

Following a serious vault fire at the studio in the 1960s, MGM's Film Library records listed the negative for this film as "destroyed." Miraculously, however, the negative had survived, and was rediscovered recently by visiting film scholar Kevin Brownlow at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, where all the studio's nitrate negatives were relocated following the fire.

 

Richard May of Warner Bros. was able to use this 80-year-old negative for the restoration, incorporating modern technical capabilities to recreate the original color tinting used at the time of the film's release. Presented with a live orchestral performance of the original score, this screening promises to be an "incomparable" experience.

 

Starring: John Gilbert, Ren?e Ador?e, Hobart Bosworth, Claire McDowell, Claire Adams, Robert Ober, Tom O'Brien, Karl Dane, Rosita Marstini. Directed by King Vidor. Story by Laurence Stallings. Screenplay by Harry Behn. Titles by Joseph Farnham. Cinematography by John Arnold. Art Direction by James Basevi, Cedric Gibbons. Film Editing by Hugh Wynn. Original Music by William Axt, David Mendoza. Costume Design by Ethel P. Chaffin. M-G-M, 1925. Running Time: 149 minutes. 35mm. Print courtesy of Warner Bros.

[LsDoorMat]

thelma & gagman, love your artwork. I'm sure you know it's appreciated,but I just want to say so.

 

I just found this on youtube. It is an all girl band in a 1928 Vitaphone short. I can't remember if this was on disc 3 of The Jazz Singer set or not. The band is called "The Ingenues" and they performed in the Ziegfeld Follies in 1927.

 

 

 

[All girl band in 1928 Vitaphone short|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ACtACBX0gM]

 

Here''s another clip from "Broadway Melody of 1929". The tap dancing in the middle of the number gives new meaning to the line in Gold Diggers of Broadway where the stage manager yells "You toe dancers get up on your toes and give your heels a rest".

 

 

 

[Title number from Broadway Melody|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggG2ku5jt9s]

 

Finally a clip from 1929's Side Street. Here George Raft shows off his dancing skills.

[George Raft dances in 1929's Side Street|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaQ7tUkp-FA&feature=related]

Raft was actually friends with several gangsters, including Bugsy Siegel, although he was not one himself.

 

Apologies if these clips have already been posted on this thread by someone else.

[LsDoorMat]

Getting back to the original topic of this thread - Hollywood Revue of 1929 - there was supposed to be a sequel entitled Hollywood Revue of 1930 aka "The March of Time". Production was eventually abandoned once the Great Depression really set in and musicals became duds at the box office for a couple of years. Some numbers survive from the 1930 film such as [The Lock Step|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MakWO29M4ig] . There was also a Technicolor short made in 1930 entitled "The Devil's Cabaret" that was originally part of the second Hollywood Revue film. It is an extra on the DVD of 1931's Cimarron.

 

The devil is concerned about the large amount of people going to heaven.

 

 

He sends Mr. Burns to convince people to come to Hades. A preacher warns the crowd.

 

 

Once in Hades, the recruits are treated to a floor show.

 

 

The chorus girls have unusual costumes to say the least.

 

[Devil's Cabaret (1930) - P1|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpTJRJew7bo]

[Devil's Cabaret (1930) - P2|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2GXZm7LxE0]

 

For years producers were trying to find ways to make use of the left-over film from H.R. of 1930. The last known attempt was a tableau number inserted into 1933's "Broadway to Hollywood". Wikipedia states that numbers from it were also inserted into Jailbirds of Paradise (1934) and The Big Idea (1934). I've never seen these films, so I can't say where and how the March of Time numbers would have fit in.

[Guest]

I don't think Adoree had blue eyes