lost film poll

(I felt the burning need to have another poll w/3 votes in it for some reason)

went 4 devils but shd have gone magnif ambersons... at least we have something, there.

Voted for "Gold Diggers of Broadway" b/c I love the little bit that's left. I suspect the one out of them all that's pretty much 100% guaranteed to be great is "Convention City", great, great cast, and WB was on a roll in '33.

Poll inspired by reading about "The Sea Gull", I read that the last/only copy was destroyed as late as 1991,which is pretty hard to comprehend. Some of the still images are very striking.

Argh, missed "Cleopatra" w/Theda Bara. Oh well.

Not exactly "lost", but Bresson's Four Nights of a Dreamer exists on what is basically a tape recording of a VHS version that exists only in some laundromat/video store in Los Angeles.

Trivia for
Hello, Sister! (1933)
Last credited film of Erich von Stroheim.

Before Stroheim completed this film, it was taken from him by the studio and re-shot almost entirely. When released, the film flopped.

london after midnight by a long margin. there are stories of a print existing somewhere - hope springs eternal for the horror lover since for years you'd read that only one still survived from the edison frankenstein but now we can see the whole thing. edison frankenstein, too, has to be the most satisfying lost/found film imaginable, to me - delivers the goods 100%.

gotta love though that evidently a print of A Woman of the Sea existed as late as 1991, when it, too, was destroyed

I'd also like to see El Apóstol (first animated film)

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Lost Hitchcock surfaces. Just the first thirty minutes, but wow!

prolly not as good as Under Capricorn

4 devils is the one i feel people should be sending interns down to the archives to find

edison frankenstein, too, has to be the most satisfying lost/found film imaginable, to me - delivers the goods 100%.

this is so true -- if you've never seen it, go find it on google video and watch it now. pretty amazing.