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Post by Shep on Jan 15, 2007 12:14:24 GMT -5
Damn, Chuck, you're the man. I didn't know that about Freaks. That was a good movie, although I felt a little uncomfortable watching it, because those were real people. He's right. The original ending was the trapeze artist in on display and then they show Hercules singing soprano at the same sideshow. If you listen to the commentary on the DVD, Skal says there were also scenes of the seal trying to get "romantic" with the "Flipper Girl".... Jesus! Remind me never to piss off any circus freaks.
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Post by ash2 on Jan 17, 2007 0:00:49 GMT -5
I'd love to see Orson Well's Mr. Arkadin as he intended. I've heard some of the new versions on DVD are good, but nothing will ever be definitive.
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Post by Famous Mortimer on Jan 18, 2007 10:54:41 GMT -5
Re: Doctor Who, the BBC didn't actually tape over a lot of their stuff back in the day, they just threw it away as it was gathering space and no-one thought it would ever be worth anything or shown again. Apparently, their bins were raided by TV fans and huge amounts of stuff was liberated - it's kind of an open secret that a number of the lost episodes survive in the hands of individual fans but they won't give them back to the BBC as punishment for how they treated them the first time (and the buzz they get from being the only person to own it, probably).
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Post by Wild Rebel on Jan 18, 2007 17:10:30 GMT -5
Re: Doctor Who, the BBC didn't actually tape over a lot of their stuff back in the day, they just threw it away as it was gathering space and no-one thought it would ever be worth anything or shown again. Apparently, their bins were raided by TV fans and huge amounts of stuff was liberated - it's kind of an open secret that a number of the lost episodes survive in the hands of individual fans but they won't give them back to the BBC as punishment for how they treated them the first time (and the buzz they get from being the only person to own it, probably). I'm embarrassed but I'm not to say that I used to go to Doctor Who Cons where the producers and stars would show up... The BBC's story was that they wanted to recycle the film (like they almost did with "Monty Python's Flying Circus") for the silver content but the reaction of the fans to this saved the episodes. They then put them in a warehouse and then after a few months, forgot to pay the rent one month. And wouldn't you know it...when they went back to the warehouse all the film was gone. And if you believe that I have some beachfront property in Arizona I'll let you have, cheap.
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Post by Chuck on Jan 18, 2007 19:43:43 GMT -5
Re: Doctor Who, the BBC didn't actually tape over a lot of their stuff back in the day, they just threw it away as it was gathering space and no-one thought it would ever be worth anything or shown again. Apparently, their bins were raided by TV fans and huge amounts of stuff was liberated - it's kind of an open secret that a number of the lost episodes survive in the hands of individual fans but they won't give them back to the BBC as punishment for how they treated them the first time (and the buzz they get from being the only person to own it, probably). I'm embarrassed but I'm not to say that I used to go to Doctor Who Cons where the producers and stars would show up... The BBC's story was that they wanted to recycle the film (like they almost did with "Monty Python's Flying Circus") for the silver content but the reaction of the fans to this saved the episodes. They then put them in a warehouse and then after a few months, forgot to pay the rent one month. And wouldn't you know it...when they went back to the warehouse all the film was gone. And if you believe that I have some beachfront property in Arizona I'll let you have, cheap. There's a further story that when PBS contacted the BBC about missing episodes, they were told that they were trying to locate them and would let them know when they found them. When asked if they didn't archive them, the reply was reportedly, "Well, we didn't now it was going to be like The Avengers!"
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Post by munchNguzzle on Jan 18, 2007 21:00:58 GMT -5
Re: Doctor Who, the BBC didn't actually tape over a lot of their stuff back in the day, they just threw it away as it was gathering space and no-one thought it would ever be worth anything or shown again. Apparently, their bins were raided by TV fans and huge amounts of stuff was liberated - it's kind of an open secret that a number of the lost episodes survive in the hands of individual fans but they won't give them back to the BBC as punishment for how they treated them the first time (and the buzz they get from being the only person to own it, probably). I'm embarrassed but I'm not to say that I used to go to Doctor Who Cons where the producers and stars would show up... The BBC's story was that they wanted to recycle the film (like they almost did with "Monty Python's Flying Circus") for the silver content but the reaction of the fans to this saved the episodes. They then put them in a warehouse and then after a few months, forgot to pay the rent one month. And wouldn't you know it...when they went back to the warehouse all the film was gone. And if you believe that I have some beachfront property in Arizona I'll let you have, cheap. I guess Kevin let the hobgoblins escape with the film.
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Post by gasdrawls on Jan 24, 2007 12:35:44 GMT -5
It's not lost film footage, but I would love to read the script to the film version of Heart of Darkness Orson Welles was going to make in 1940, but wasn't able to due to censorship. The location was going to be changed from the Congo River to the African American section of Harlem, and the camera's point of view was going to be in the first person. If only!
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Post by fishpicker on Jan 24, 2007 14:28:44 GMT -5
All of the cut footage from Star Wars, both OT and PT, apparently a lot of substance for both trilogies, especially the PT, was left on the cutting room floor to make Lucas' stupid time limit. Rumor has it that Lucas cut around 45 minutes of Episode III.
IF they shot it, the original planet fall ending of Alien Resurrection that was supposed to set up AvP (a much different than the steaming pile of AvP we ended up with).
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Post by Hugh Beaumont on Jan 24, 2007 15:01:05 GMT -5
I actually really liked the Biggs scene on Tattooine, from the original Star Wars. I'd love to see a clean, integrated version of it. I don't think it was all that frivolous, and it would've made his death actually mean something.
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Post by Wild Rebel on Jan 24, 2007 17:58:42 GMT -5
I actually really liked the Biggs scene on Tattooine, from the original Star Wars. I'd love to see a clean, integrated version of it. I don't think it was all that frivolous, and it would've made his death actually mean something. True. It would have added depth to the story. Something missing in RotJ and those other three "films". In fact, there are times that I look at Star Wars and I wonder...."Who really wrote this?" I mean, it couldn't REALLY have been the same person who came up with Attack of the Clones, could it?
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Post by Hugh Beaumont on Jan 26, 2007 3:09:08 GMT -5
How and when did that footage get leaked, by the way? All of a sudden I just saw it on some flash video site and there was hardly any fuss made over it.
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Post by Rodimus Convoy on Feb 6, 2007 19:50:05 GMT -5
The footage has been floating around for ages. There's plenty of other scenes that were cut from the original Trilogy that the general public will never get to see because Lucas won't let it see the light of day, unless he has a change of heart.
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Post by Hugh Beaumont on Feb 7, 2007 15:12:11 GMT -5
Lucas? Do something right and give the fanbase what they want? Noooooo.
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Post by Wild Rebel on Feb 7, 2007 16:43:54 GMT -5
The footage has been floating around for ages. There's plenty of other scenes that were cut from the original Trilogy that the general public will never get to see because Lucas won't let it see the light of day, unless he has a change of heart. Heart?
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Post by Hugh Beaumont on Feb 8, 2007 4:28:45 GMT -5
The footage has been floating around for ages. There's plenty of other scenes that were cut from the original Trilogy that the general public will never get to see because Lucas won't let it see the light of day, unless he has a change of heart. Heart? Good catch.
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