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Date Posted: 04:43:12 04/29/11 Fri
Author: BDM
Subject: old movies
In reply to: detoured 's message, "Re: car chases" on 00:31:15 04/29/11 Fri

Yes, it's a shame that so many old films are gone forever. Martin Scorsese says 50% of those made before 1950 are lost. The film stocks can be lost to fire or were often poorly stored and deteriorated. Some studios even destroyed films on purpose. They had remade the story so they thought the older version was now of no interest or some other legal problem made them feel destroying the film was easier than fighting to keep it. Irving Thalberg was notoriously cheap and wanted films melted down to recovered the silver nitrate.

TCM is a wonderful station for seeing the films uncut and commercial free (I remember ACM being that way long ago). Still prefer Netflix so I can see foreign and obscure films.

Those films from the 1890s and early 1900s are short, most were the ones used in those penny arcade machines. I saw The Great Train Robbery from 1902 that ended with a bandit shooting directly at the camera which scared the audience back then. Scorsese homaged it in Goodfellas last shot.

The Stones looked quite normal in 1964. My wife said they were still ugly. Keith looks like he might be a little tipsy on something. Nice to see Brian Jones in the band, he's said to have contributed greatly to the more experimental Stones songs.

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