[78-L] films you don't see

[David Lennick]

I wouldn't mind any of the "Big Broadcast" series either. Sometimes you get 
surprised..last week in the Barnes & Noble discount bin I found a disc with 3 
Burns & Allen shorties (60 minutes each--Here Comes Cookie, Six of a Kind, Love 
in Bloom).

dl

Bud Black wrote:
> I would dearly love to get a decent DVD print of "The Phantom Broadcast"
> from about 1933.
> 
> Bud 
>  
> -------Original Message-------
>  
> From: William A. Brent
> Date: 03/22/09 04:04:49
> To: 78-L Mail List
> Subject: [78-L] films you don't see
>  
> This talk of DVD releases has me thinking (and typing...)
>  
> what's it going to take in order to clear up the rights on films like
> The Desert Song
> (any of the 4 exiting versions would be nice to see out and about) - they
> were
> all originally shot in color, though I think color material only
> exists on the Dennis Morgan
> and Gordon MacRea versions (there was also the 1929 with John Boles,
> and the 1955
> TV version with Nelson Eddy)
> They are around in one form or another, I even have a technicolor
> print of the MacRea,
> but there seems to be a rights issue, preventing turner - the owner
> of the film elements -
> from broadcasting or releasing them.
>  
> and while we're at it - Hellapoppin. This disappeared from the US in
> 1970 when the
> rights were purchased in the hopes of converting it to a stage play for
> Jerry
> Lewis.  That failed, and the film is in limbo (at least in these parts).
>  
> Others I'd like to see on (at least) the little screen again:
>  
> Port of 7 Seas (James Whale's version of Fanny)
>  
> Of course they managed to loose 4 of the first 5 Charlie Chan's
> but there are other Waner Oland films that do exist, but are not
> in any current TV rotation
>  
> Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934) (beautifully photographed)
> The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu (1930)
> The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929)
>  
> anyone else have any titles in mind?