The ever-excellent Jennifer, normally to be found holding court at Flappers and Flickers and Silent Stanzas, brings me the momentous news that the uncut and free-to-make-references-to-Italy version of A Night at the Opera has finally been found - and right where I always thought it would be.
Hungary.
Follow the link to read the full story, and then petition MGM or Warners or whoever the hell it is that owns the rights to put out a new DVD featuring both versions.
And happy birthday, Groucho!
Follow the link to read the full story, and then petition MGM or Warners or whoever the hell it is that owns the rights to put out a new DVD featuring both versions.
And happy birthday, Groucho!
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Stop Press 15/11/9:
Original council member and all-round good egg Eugene Conniff has brilliantly celebrated the find in splendid illustrated form over at his blog The Poison From My Brain.
I cannot recommend it highly enough, and my only question is what you're still doing here, trying to decipher the miniscule text on my reproduction, when all you have to do is click on the link and there it'll be, all big and colourful.
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11 comments:
Whilst that article hasn't appeared anywhere else yet, I did find further info about another Marx Brothers found gem:
Animal Crackers Color Footage Found
Oh my God! Come back soon and write about it!
That color sequence is awesome! It has been around for some time, though. It's fun to see Harpo without his wig and in a bath robe!
I'm new to all this stuff. *laughs* Pretty exciting!
Matthew, have a great trip! ^_^
Scott Marks at Emulsion Compulsion has interviewed Thomas Racz about his find (http://www.emulsioncompulsion.com/2008/08/10/interviews/2739exclusive-interview-with-uncut-a-night-at-the-opera-discoverer-thomas-racz), but apart from that there has been virtually no big fuss about this at all.
After Thomas contacted me and I put the stuff on my site, I've also tried to spread the news via platforms like alt.comedy.marx-bros and Marxonians whose contact info I happened to have (guys like like Paul Wesolowski, Joe Adamson etc), but still nothing more has happened.
Both me and Thomas expected a DVD-release of a restored A Night At The Opera, which I think would sell pretty well world-wide (even if not all scenes that were cut have been found).
I would also like to see a similar search through national film archives everywhere. Who knows what might be waiting to be found?
/Mikael @ Marxology
http://www.marx-brothers.org/marxology
Great story, Now all we need to find is the end scene of Horsefeathers where the college is burning!
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This is such a cool news story! I love the Marx Brothers, so I decided to recreate this lost scene in comic form:
Comic
:D
sort of off topic:
i taught a 3 week class recently to a group of 20 beginning actors. Most of them had been through school, but were new to the industry. 20 somethings in age, mostly.
i sent them all youtube links of THE MARX BROS. and THELMA TODD and told them to study the comedy and get to know these legendary performers, who's archetypes all still exist in film and television, but are rarely performed as well today.
How did it go down?
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