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So the collectors are the only ones concerned with them and most of the collectors are film-makers themselves. If an old film like this is selected to be restored then the reels might not be available and a theater copy would need to be used, if available.If you mean the movie reels, they have probably been trashed. This movie was released 54 years ago and it was far from being a blockbuster. The master has obviously been made available on DVD and now it is out being streamed. Probably somewhere in some warehouse, the masters are stored with the chemicals being eroded which is typical of movies that are not big hits. According to to Library of Congress only 14% of commercial films made are still around today. Half the films made before 1950 are gone and 90% of silent films are gone.
The dollar is king in the movie industry like no other industries. Movies up to 1970 were made for a theater or TV release. The first theater release lasted typically 3 or 4 months. Then the second release went to secondary theaters in small towns and the suburbs. Then they hit drive-ins and very low admission theatres with double bills. So after about year for most films, the money making days were over and the master went to the vault. Unfortunately many of these vaults were not made to achieve films centuries. They were storage rooms where the masters deteriorated.So the collectors are the only ones concerned with them and most of the collectors are film-makers themselves. If an old film like this is selected to be restored then the reels might not be available and a theater copy would need to be used, if available.
You'd think that the studios would want to keep everything locked away no matter how popular it was, but like NASA they appear to throw most of their originals out.
The dollar is king in the movie industry like no other industries. Movies up to 1970 were made for a theater or TV release. The first theater release lasted typically 3 or 4 months. Then the second release went to secondary theaters in small towns and the suburbs. Then they hit drive-ins and very low admission theatres with double bills. So after about year for most films, the money making days were over and the master went to the vault. Unfortunately many of these vaults were not made to achieve films centuries. They were storage rooms where the masters deteriorated.
By the end of the 40s every studio in Hollywood was having problems with TV stealing their audience and it only got worst in 50s. Liberty Pictures was absorbed by RKO and within a few years RKO when bust and most it's vault went to Paramount who sold parts of the holding to serval smaller companies. All studios were losing producers and directors who were creating their own small companies. Most these companies were absorbed by the 70s. The masters from these productions were all over the place deteriorating. Copies were made from master and sold to TV productions companies, who copied them over and over until they were unusable.
By 1990 many great movies had deteriorated so badly they were hardly watchable with bad soundtracks, faded color, and missing segments . Movies like My Fair Lady, A Star is Born, The Ten Commandments, The Jazz Singer, and many more would have been gone today had not been for a number of Hollywood actors, directors, and producers who poured many millions into film restoration. I saw My Fair Lady after the restoration on a big screen and it looked and sounded just as good as did over 50 years ago.
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Very true, finding original film stock 100 years old that can be restored is nearly impossible. This is because the silver nitrate on the celluloid is deteriorating by 50 years and at 100 years the images become unrecognizable. There were a few people or organizations years ago who realized that these old films will have historical and possibly monetary value so they transferred the old movies to new stock giving them many years of new life. Today there are a number of film libraries in the world dedicate to preserving the old movies and restoring them.The majority of those older films that could be saved are probably already found, I suppose every once in a while someone finds a missing reel as I've read happened with some lost American films that were found in foreign vaults, but those rare discoveries are probably reaching their end. Now that everything is digital the materials available to collectors continuously shrink. That will drive prices up as demand slowly rises.
You're right, many movie studios are all about how much they can make this quarter. Movies that aren't making money today, or near the future are of no value. This is usually small movie makers who pull together a staff to make a few movies. Then their best and only director leaves and they're screwed. Then what happens to their inventory of masters. And sometimes more important, what happen to the copywrites, did they get transferred, and who owns them. There are a lot of movies made by small production companies years ago that won't be shown because a distributor does know who owns right to the movie. There are databased that can search but not everything is thereSo the collectors are the only ones concerned with them and most of the collectors are film-makers themselves. If an old film like this is selected to be restored then the reels might not be available and a theater copy would need to be used, if available.
You'd think that the studios would want to keep everything locked away no matter how popular it was, but like NASA they appear to throw most of their originals out.
There are a number directors that prefer film. Advantages of shooting with film:Actually, some movies are being filmed but the negatives are scanned into digital format to be released theatrically:
34 in 2017
2017 shot on film (16mm/35mm/65mm)
45 in 2018
2018 shot on film (16mm/35mm/65mm)
51 in 2019
2019 shot on film 16mm/35mm/65mm
19 in 2020
37 in 2021
List of 2021 Movies Shot on REAL Film
Better Late Than Never! Constantly updated due to Covid-19 Note: Even though FAWNAS was a TV Special, it still counts
5 in 2022
List of 2022 Movies shot on REAL Film
These are most likely incomplete lists but this "Anamorphic" digitial format seems to be the popular choice of film-makers nowadays.
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The Blue Angel (1930)
There are a number directors that prefer film. Advantages of shooting with film:
However, digital has one really big advantage over film in movie making. The Director can see the result of shooting a scene immediately after shooting and it can be edited or re-shot before the actors leave and the set is torn down.
- With a higher dynamic range, film is better at capturing white’s and blacks’ details and can’t be replicated with digital cameras. Also, film can capture subtle details lost in digital photography.
- Film is more forgiving of minor focusing issues and exposure problems.
- Film captures photos at higher resolution than most digital cameras.
I think for most directors who choose film it is just a matter of experience with the medium. However, the fact that a shoot can be reviewed and even edited immediate is very useful and saves money. It eliminates the need to reshoot scenes after the film comes back from the lab days after the scene was shot. By that time the actors may not all be available and set may have been taken down.Digital can also be manipulated endlessly with computers removing the need for colored and tinted lenses.
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Arizona Dream (1993)
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.I made a list some months ago with about 250 movies that I must see and now I cant find the damn thing, so here I am trying to make a new list. What movies do I absolutely need to see if I haven't seen them yet? I like action comedy and scifi but I am willing to give most any film a good chance.
