https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/oct/11/researchers-find-film-early-cinema-pioneer-georges-melies-match-de-prestigidation

 

George Melies film found. 

It's amazing that they can find these films after so long. It makes you wonder what other hidden treasures are out there just waiting to be re-discovered.

 

It's amazing that they can find these films after so long. It makes you wonder what other hidden treasures are out there just waiting to be re-discovered.

And it looks like they were three shorts spliced together (I'm not sure if they were all Meleis), which is even better.

 

http://screenanarchy.com/2016/10/czech-film-archive-discovered-melies-film-believed-to-be-lost.html

 

I always figure everything has been found so any surprises always make me happy. 

An article on the BFI trying to preserve decaying material while they can. This is what annoys me about the soap material held at places like UCLA - is any of this being done? 

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38131911

An article on efforts to preserve a '20s film about anti-Semitism in Austria now that the last reel has been found. 

 

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/03/the-anti-nazi-film-with-the-missing-ending.html

It's insane knowing how many movies and shows have been lost forever either due to wiping/taping over and the nitrate film they used.

1915 Hungarian film found.

 

http://hungarytoday.hu/news/102-year-old-hungarian-film-discovered-netherlands-91415

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-lost-film-secrets-1.4057564

 

http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/box-of-old-movies-recovered-from-eaton-s-store-in-1940s-contains-lost-film-1.3355719

Looks like part of a Baby Peggy movie was found. 

 

http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20161018/p2a/00m/0et/023000c

Some lost fragments of a Stan Laurel short have been found. The article also includes the full short, with the scenes added.

 

http://friesfilmarchief.nl/nieuws/frisian-film-archive-discovers-rare-missing-fragments-from-stan-laurel-film-detained-1924/

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-43118475/morecambe-and-wise-rescuing-a-lost-film

http://tv.bt.com/tv/tv-news/lost-footage-of-adam-wests-batman-to-be-screened-for-first-time-in-50-years-11364264175185

 

 

Orson Welles' long-lost The Other Side of the Wind - reconstructed and slated to be released by Netflix - has been pulled from the Cannes Film Festival along with several major new films due to Cannes' ongoing nasty feud with Netflix.  Beatrice Welles, Welles' oft-litigious daughter who fought the Wind restoration team for years, sent a letter to Netflix pleading for them to reconsider.

 

I support Netflix boycotting Cannes until it agrees to give their films award consideration - there are some excellent ones, including Dee Rees' Mudbound (an Oscar contender this past year) and Bong Joon-ho's Okja. But with The Other Side of the Wind I'd make an exception. It was Orson Welles' final work and I believe it deserves to be first screened at Cannes. I certainly will be making an effort to see it theatrically assuming it screens locally.

Edited April 13, 20187 yr by Vee

 

Some wonderful treats in these scraps, from Louise Brooks, to Billie Dove, to Hedda Hooper, to various musical number glimpses.

 

https://silentlondon.co.uk/2018/04/27/the-american-venus-1926-louise-brooks-discovered-in-technicolor/