Varsity Show released on DVD

[BrendanGCarroll]

VARSITY SHOW (1937) will be issued as part of the Busby Berkeley Collection Vol 2 in September. Does anyone know if it has been restored to its full length of 121 minutes? TV prints (even on TCM) run just 79 minutes.

PLEASE give us the full movie !!!!

[richardny4me]

According to posts at another website, after a worldwide search, the edited version is all Warners was able to find and that will be released. Had they found the complete version, in all likelihood it would have been mentioned in the press release.

 

Someone else posted this which you may find interesting:

 

"Original soundtrack snippets from a couple of the missing songs featured in "Varsity Show" can be heard on the very enjoyable WB Cartoon "Katnip College", which has been beautifully restored to it's original Technicolor splendor on the HD-DVD version of "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (Hopefully the same version will be on the up-coming Blu-ray release of that title)

The standard DVD features a non restored, washed out version of the cartoon.

 

Most of that Cartoon is made up of soundtrack grabs from the Warner Bros feature films "Varsity Show" and "Over the Goal", which tragically has also had it's very best song cut from all TV prints.

It seems that "Katnip College" is the only source of these lost musical numbers and sadly even then we only get fragments of the originals."