I would be heavy hand when I was working at Kino. The film was made before the VHS age and clip rights were never secured for video. Rather than go back and try to license every clip from the studios for something that would sell hundreds of copies, Pat approved the idea of me going back and replacing the clips. It was actually fairly good work for the video editing possibilities back then. As for the "banned" outtakes from Queen Kelly, that was actually a reel of film salvaged from the flood back in the 1930s that Swanson had kept in her collection. It also had clips from Indiscreet. In that reel were a few minutes of footage I was able to use for the 1985 version. The African footage came from Janice Allen and the Swanson introduction came from a 2" quad found at the WNET archives -- that was the hardest thing to restore.Jonathan S wrote:The Stroheim box looks almost identical to the US Kino releases, including the shortening of the documentary for copyright reasons. (The uncut version, which I recorded off a Channel 4 broadcast in the 1980s, has clips from Greed and other films that are reduced to stills in Kino's version.)
Dennis D
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