A 100-year-old silent film that was believed to be lost forever turned up in an Omaha parking lot.
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@davidb22067 ай бұрын
Thousands of these films have been lost to history. If you find one, or even the chance of one, PLEASE preserve it. Do not destroy old negatives and film canisters, ever.
@mikeblair25947 ай бұрын
Too damn right you are lad!
@CorporalClegg10007 ай бұрын
Nitrate film is a huge fire hazard.
@jimmy_kirk7 ай бұрын
It was never lost, it was part of someone's collection. The whole "found in a parking lot" is just clickbait. It was sold at an auction that was taking place in a parking lot.
@jessejamesainger32637 ай бұрын
I have an old silent movie from the 20s called "Agnes Takes On The Entire Rugby Team In The Back Of A Model T" if you are interested.
@jimmy_kirk7 ай бұрын
@@jessejamesainger3263 I am interested.
@jeannecastellano71816 ай бұрын
Clara Bow led a tragic life---sexually abused by her father, her schizophrenic mother attempted to murder her, she was betrayed by people she trusted, spurned by other Hollywood stars who detested her working class manners and Bronx diction, and she herself suffered from mental illness. Yet, she was a brilliant comedienne in addition to being the "It Girl". The word "it" was a euphemism for sex appeal. She eventually did find love and had a successful marriage and two sons. I DEFINITELY WANT TO SEE THIS MOVIE!!!!!
@bardo00076 ай бұрын
Her sons are still alive?
@zoezzzarko11176 ай бұрын
Thank you for all this info... truly !!👊🏼💥🔥💞💫😇 Is there a DOCUMENTARY out about her that i can watch??
@BeachBaller6 ай бұрын
@@bardo0007One of her sons Tony died back in 2011 but her son George is still alive at 86 years old. I can’t imagine how amazed he must be of this discovery
@luthienlee35116 ай бұрын
Just imagine- going around with undiagnosed PTSD as a "sex symbol". Constantly having a trigger shoved in your face. It would be the same as sitting with a vet who was in active combat and watching war films.
@deeespinal96666 ай бұрын
Actor lives are cap
@yelleryoung58707 ай бұрын
Digitize that sucker now.
@CraftAero7 ай бұрын
As we speak, Clara's image (copyright expired) is being fed into AI models so she can "star" in upcoming blockbuster(s) royalty free. And the Oscar goes to...
@danielebrparish42717 ай бұрын
Actually it's the other way around. Digitaly shot movies are transferred to film to preserve them. Film lasts much longer than digital storage.
@TootNuggetEdits7 ай бұрын
@@danielebrparish4271that is why we have LTO tapes
@yelleryoung58707 ай бұрын
@@danielebrparish4271 That was before SSDs. Properly stored that could last thousands of years.
@TootNuggetEdits7 ай бұрын
@@danielebrparish4271That is why we have LTO tapes
@mht58757 ай бұрын
Excellent, I am a member of the silent film preservation community so this is wonderful news indeed
@VickGos-yr2gi6 ай бұрын
That’s awesome 😎
@BenPrevo6 ай бұрын
I think my family has a lost 1920 out of the inkwell print.
@Flat_Earth_Sophia6 ай бұрын
No.
@PocketFullofCatnip6 ай бұрын
@@BenPrevo What! Those things are great. They should show it to film preservationists and see if it can be made screenable.
@BenPrevo6 ай бұрын
@@PocketFullofCatnip already digitised and on private utube.
@sparkplug10187 ай бұрын
This is really impressive, that he not only found a copy of the film but the master copy. Have to wonder what else was at that auction.
@kbjerke7 ай бұрын
I wonder what the cartoon was, that first caught his attention!
@lightyagami34927 ай бұрын
@@kbjerkeTHIS! Compounded with the fact he is going Tokyo makes me think it's possibly a lost anime!
@RealHomeRecording7 ай бұрын
Technically it was a backup copy.
@greggv86 ай бұрын
It's a 16mm print onto acetate film from the original 35mm on nitrocellulose film.
@sparkplug10186 ай бұрын
@user-jd3vo4mh2d Unfortunately I think the copy is all that’s left, nitrocellulose doesn’t age well even when stored properly. Which is very unfortunate
@TwilightRage20996 ай бұрын
It just gives you hope that there might still be a few more out there just waiting to be found.
@PungiFungi6 ай бұрын
I think lost films are found every year.
@Flat_Earth_Sophia6 ай бұрын
Why would you want to?
@birdsdaword7 ай бұрын
WOW! It's always a miracle when "lost" films are found. Especially Clara Bow. The "It" girl. Good news to the entire film community!
@dawnsalois7 ай бұрын
took the post right out of my fingers! WOW is exactly what I thought as well!
@muffs55mercury617 ай бұрын
"It" the 1927 film was lost for years but thank goodness it was found and I think it's now available on home video.
@frankdenardo86847 ай бұрын
@muffs55mercury61 The following places have a digitized copy of the film. British Film Institute Motion Picture Academy of Arts & Sciences Library of Congress George Eastman House UCLA film & television archives The above-mentioned places are on the lookout for "lost films."
@birdsdaword7 ай бұрын
@@frankdenardo8684 yes indeed and don't forget the San Francisco Silent Film Festival next month from April 10-14, 2024! They also restore films
@MartinD99996 ай бұрын
A “miracle” ?! 🤣
@theronwolf32967 ай бұрын
When I was a young kid, there was a huge fire one night in my town. My parents actually took a quick ride to see what was happening. Unknown to us, there was a huge storage vault of old films that (Pathe films) no one even knew about that went up in flames. Who knows what was lost.
@lightyagami34927 ай бұрын
Tragic! 😭
@paulbourgeois44916 ай бұрын
Pathe did news reels, if I'm not mistaken, imagine what could have been on those films lost in that fire!
@RighteousReverendDynamite6 ай бұрын
British Pathe films are great and should be shown to kids.
@101Volts6 ай бұрын
Similarly, in 1937, there was a fire at a building housing 20th Century Fox films. It ruined *many* of movies that day.
@101Volts6 ай бұрын
@@RighteousReverendDynamiteThere's a British Pathe channel on KZbin. I love perusing it now and then, & it introduced me to Teddy Brown, a great Xylophone Player. My mind was blown when I heard his recording of "The Dance of the Raindrops."
@garettanderson67727 ай бұрын
$20.00 is an amazing buy for the entire pallet of films considering today's resellers that guy must have had to compete against.
@ironbowtie6 ай бұрын
At $20.00, I think the competition didn't show up that day.
@101Volts6 ай бұрын
It's kind of amazing what you can still find even now, *if you keep looking and asking.* I didn't know what I got last year when I was given a Violin after asking, but it's no newer than 1887. My question at that yard sale was "Might you have any musical instruments that are not out? Even if missing parts, or if it's broken." And so I was given the Violin, which was missing its Saddle (a common thing to lose.)
@garettanderson67726 ай бұрын
@@101Volts I've been an ebay seller for more than 20 years, bought and sold at flea markets since I was a teenager, and garage sales are my most favorite pass time. I know exactly what you mean.
@rocknfan1006 ай бұрын
THAT film cost him $20 but he had to buy a pallet of films (maybe 50 -100) so if he had to buy 100 in the pallet ... he sprang for $2,000@@ironbowtie
@wisperg17886 ай бұрын
@@rocknfan100In the video his exact words are “This stack was $20. It was the best $20 I ever invested.” That sure makes it sound like he only spend $20 total.
@JustWowNick6 ай бұрын
$20 for all of THAT is a steal for anyone. Incredible find!
@JohnnyAngel87 ай бұрын
A pill pounder would be a druggist (pharmacist). He would pound (crush) pills with a pill crusher (mortar and pestle) to make powder or paste medicines for patients. This is a 20-minute long comedy movie about a druggist.
@glass46007 ай бұрын
Look, I’m sure context matters and I’m glad to know Out of context, going off the video title card, it looks like “krill pounder” and I gotta be honest that sounds like An amazing action movie or an absolutely horrible porno.
@bigbossimmotal7 ай бұрын
Ahhh, the innocence of youth! The Mortar and Pestle were used to grind raw ingredients, and blend them together. Then that compound was put into 'Pill Presses' (also called pill pounders) to MAKE pills. Why invent a narrative from scratch just to write a clueless comment on a subject that you know NOTHING about?
@CraftAero7 ай бұрын
@@glass4600 ...it looks like “krill pounder” 2:47 Screencap & zoom, it looks like #PILL "POUNDER". You'd have to actually see the film for context, but this was pre-Hays Code, so anything goes.
@mikeblair25947 ай бұрын
See..... Its fun to learn new things! Thanx, I didn't know that, but it makes sense.
@chaznonya47 ай бұрын
@@glass4600Instead of trolling why don't you watch the video. They clearly call it Pill Pounder a dozen times. Now you look stupid.
@ralphmarshall10007 ай бұрын
I hope someone goes through the rest of those films, they’re well preserved, and there might be some more treasures to be found .
@bardo00076 ай бұрын
He probably did already
@Flat_Earth_Sophia6 ай бұрын
This is not a treasure.
@deemarie75597 ай бұрын
Wow! My grandmother played the love interest in a silent film about a pilot. I was told that in her town grocery store hung the advertisement for the silent film. I would go to the town to try and purchase the advertisement, but the building had long been boarded up. They wanted to sign my grandmother, but her strict German parents refused to let her go. How I wish I could have viewed the film.
@lightyagami34927 ай бұрын
Try looking up old newspapers in the area your grandma lived in during the silent film era. You might still be able to find the advertisement if it was ever in the paper. This would have been something newspapers would have pounced on in seconds. This would have been the talk of the town.
@jerseyjoyride13167 ай бұрын
Do you have any other information? I love a guys rabbit hole research!
@GregorioTavarez-qb2qd6 ай бұрын
@@jerseyjoyride1316reword that please .
@dustin_45017 ай бұрын
In the end of 2023 they found the last act of 1917 "Cleopatra" starring Theda Bara, now 1923 "Pill Pounder" starring Clara Bow.
@alanbash29216 ай бұрын
I’ve been hoping for 60 years that Someone finds a complete print of the 1919 Lon Chaney Film “ The Miracle Man “.... I guess I’m just hoping for a Miracle 📣📣📣📣
@hebneh6 ай бұрын
@@alanbash2921 A lot more people wish that a print of 1927's "London After Midnight", also starring Lon Chaney, would appear from some forgotten storage building somewhere.
@kj2112 күн бұрын
@@alanbash2921 i hope that "her friend the bandit" is found it's the only film starring charlie chaplin to be lost
@Cre80s7 ай бұрын
Now if only someone can find Laurel & Hardy’s “Hats Off”, 1927. A totally lost film.
@Kjt8537 ай бұрын
To say nothing of “Cleopatra” with Theda Bara and “London After Midnight” with Lon Chaney. If I’m not mistaken, only fragments and stills of each remain.
@Aromatic.Bleach7 ай бұрын
@Kjt853 I literally came here to comment this. The guy talking on this clip also gave Clara credit for Thedas accomplishments. Horrible how she is so forgotten when she was so important in her time.
@muffs55mercury617 ай бұрын
Or Lon Chaney's "London After Midnight" from the same year.
@PatrickKniesler7 ай бұрын
I'm hoping for Over the Top by Arthur Guy Empey... but hoping against hope
@melodymiller91376 ай бұрын
1912's Saved From The Titanic is one that I so hope is found someday but probably never will be
@Great-Documentaries6 ай бұрын
This wasn't a Clara Bow picture, it was a Charles Murray picture that also featured 18 year old Clara Bow. And before Taylor Swift was even born, Prince mentioned Clara in a song on his 1985 album Around the World in a Day.
@Bobsaget1216 ай бұрын
She’s in it so it’s a Clara bow picture
@g..._anthony275 ай бұрын
@@Bobsaget121 nope
@cherylschantz98937 ай бұрын
Allowing those films to sit outside in the elements is beyond belief.
@jeffwalters74047 ай бұрын
They weren't stored outside like this. These were at auction from a huge collection and were either being photographed for auction, inventoried, sold that day or being picked up.
@jimmy_kirk7 ай бұрын
It wasn't actually "found in a parking lot". It was purchased at an auction that was taking place in a parking lot.
@lindanorris24557 ай бұрын
THEY COOULD BE WORTH MILLIONS!
@Derek-no8fu6 ай бұрын
And for over 100 years at that.
@spamanator6666 ай бұрын
It was all stored in the building behind it, they brought it out to the parking lot for the lot auction sale.
@stereoscope360v66 ай бұрын
I just wrote the name Clara Bow on a scrap of paper. Never thought there would be a connection between me and silent film history but here we are!
@Nosferigatoni6 ай бұрын
lol, its so ridiculous
@fabio.16 ай бұрын
Hello
@chdd995 ай бұрын
The universe connects all things to the swift
@msmoonbeam915 ай бұрын
You Swift haters need to get a life
@chdd995 ай бұрын
@@msmoonbeam91 well since we’re being so 90s, Get a clue too!
@fnln5447 ай бұрын
What an incredible story. It makes one ponder what films are in the other canisters.
@mikeblair25947 ай бұрын
Indeed.
@kirkyorg76547 ай бұрын
@@mikeblair2594 was thinking the same thing how many other priceless gems were hidden away in those stacks
@KutWrite6 ай бұрын
PeeWee Herman's private collection.
@znyznyzny6 ай бұрын
@@KutWrite good thing that's disproven, conspiracy 🤡.
@hotwax93765 ай бұрын
As a matter of fact, many other old films that were previously considered lost have been discovered in the most unexpected places.
@hearsejr7 ай бұрын
Saying the film has a connection to swift is a very long stretch just because swift named a song after her... come on, people.
@MothGirl0076 ай бұрын
Clara Bow is a thousand times cooler than
@kj2112 күн бұрын
The news loves to connect her to everything for some unknown reason
@Vegaswill7147 ай бұрын
That was a GREAT story. Very happy for Gary Huggins.
@samanthacarpenter33366 ай бұрын
This is why I support collectors and hobbyists who collect. Doesn’t matter what media art, without passionate/obsessive collectors so many works of art would have been lost to time or, destroyed by careless and destructive people.
@darienmonomer7 ай бұрын
So Taylor Swifts connection to the star was just that she wrote a song named after her? ok... kinda reaching, no?
@annwithaplan97666 ай бұрын
I think it was because of the timing.
@kingcosworth26436 ай бұрын
Yes, big reach
@Nosferigatoni6 ай бұрын
I swear, its so annoying.
@brians95086 ай бұрын
Any reason to mention that no-talent overrated hack's name at every opportunity. wears me out.
@Stogdad16 ай бұрын
Sorry to go against the grain here, but the fact that the most successful recordimg artist on the planet not only knows who Bow was, but has a dedicated a song to her, means that millions of Swifties will be themselves curious to learn who she was. How is that a bad thing?
@jonathanthomas72286 ай бұрын
Knowing that this film is being saved has literally brought me to tears. I am genuinely curious if the original seller of the films, the one's who had these films wrapped on pallets, took down any identifying information regarding to whom they've sold these pallets of film? What other treasures might there have been which we've all resigned to being lost to time and age? I think we all need to know what films were in these pallets.
@-Katastrophe7 ай бұрын
And good news, it's public domain!
@AirbornChaos7 ай бұрын
Could you imagine finding lost media, and being hit with a copyright claim! Thanks to Disney, that's still a real possibility, too.
@TheAmbientUniverse6 ай бұрын
@@AirbornChaos Steamboat Willie is now in public domain. Use that shit in any and every one of your money making endeavors. Walt can't touch you with a fifty foot pole.
@Knightmessenger6 ай бұрын
@@AirbornChaosthis actually happened with a recording of Super Bowl 1 by the son of a guy who worked at a tv videotape repair company. (And thus had the ability to record tv almost 10 years before the first home vcr was invented.)
@t-mar92756 ай бұрын
@@TheAmbientUniverse It all depends on how it's marketed. If it's viewed as trademark infringement, then there could still be legal issues. It will be interesting to see what the happens with the first few cases.
@PapagenoMF6 ай бұрын
Does it matter if its public domain if you can't access it?
@mistervacation236 ай бұрын
In her career, Dame Mae Fishman was a part of over 108 silent films. Each film was a testament to her ability to communicate emotions without uttering a single word. She has a bit part in this film
@jamesrocket56167 ай бұрын
A win for the lost media and silent film communities
@sfperalta7 ай бұрын
I know that Clara Bow was "the IT girl" - a common phrase today. But what I didn't know is that "It" is not metaphoric, like the French "je ne sais quoi", but refers to the title of the 1927 film "It" that she starred in. So "It" became a something that charismatic people were called due of this film. You learn something new every day!
@SplendorSolis7 ай бұрын
What about the other crates? Did someone buy those and check them after this discovery? There must have been more incredible films in those as well.
@lightyagami34927 ай бұрын
@@chairmanofthebored8684Hard to imagine only one person showed up to this auction. Something tells me most if not all of them were at least bought. Whether people come forward is a different matter all together though.
@rfichokeofdestiny6 ай бұрын
@stopthecrazyguy9948I think it’s less making it up and more justified cynicism from a lifetime of dealing with humanity. 😏
@Flat_Earth_Sophia6 ай бұрын
This is not incredible. lol
@mindyourbusinessxoxo6 ай бұрын
@@Flat_Earth_Sophia Considering you're a flat Earther, you're hardly qualified to determine what is or what isn't incredible. Please leave this conversations for the adults in the room.
@cactusjackNV6 ай бұрын
There might have been another gem in the lot. Odds are pretty low however that there was something else. Astronomically low chance to find another lost silent film. But maybe a lost TV show or something. Still wouldn't make that bet though.
@paulbourgeois44916 ай бұрын
My Pa was born in Park Falls Wisconsin in 1923. He would have been 100 years old last August 20th. Survived the depression and fought in WWII. Passed in November 2002, leaving my mom, and his 3 boys. I miss him every day. Thanks for posting this.
@shirleybalinski45356 ай бұрын
Hey, my Dad was born August 31, 1923 in Michigan. Similiar life story.
@paulbourgeois44916 ай бұрын
@@shirleybalinski4535 they really were the Greatest Generation!
@VC-xj1fs7 ай бұрын
What in the actual hell does Taylor Swift have to do with this story?
@s0nnyburnett7 ай бұрын
clickbait for cable
@JonasC227 ай бұрын
if you think about it that's the REAL story here, Taytay making a song about that woman, maybe she'll actually get famous now (sarcasm)
@gregb64697 ай бұрын
As they said near the end of the report, Swift has a song called Clara Bow on her latest album.
@jackalenterprisesofohio7 ай бұрын
@@gregb6469 wow, so important, and life changing.
@jackalenterprisesofohio7 ай бұрын
@@James-to7pi what was it like 5% of voters said they would vote the same way she would?
@SonyaHudson6 ай бұрын
Their son George Beldam, Jr. would probably be especially... excited to see his mother. He's 86 year's old and prayerfully he clothed in his right mind. ❤🙏🏾
@daveincognito7 ай бұрын
I hope their next step is digital preservation.
@danielebrparish42717 ай бұрын
Digital images are put on film for preservation because no other medium, except paper, lasts as long.
@thomase137 ай бұрын
@@danielebrparish4271The only digital storage medium I know if that lasts is he M-Disc, which is supposed to last for at least a millennium!
@laurelwilson3147 ай бұрын
@@danielebrparish4271 While it is true that film is one of the longest lasting forms of media and is good for long term preservation, it’s currently seen as best practice to make digital “access copies” of analog recordings. That way you don’t run the risk of damaging the physical hard copy of the analog recording every time someone wants to view it. So making digital copies is actually a very good and logical thing to do with an item like this that is the only known copy of something. I’m actually an archivist who works with audio and visual materials that have been digitized in order for researchers to access them, so this whole process is something that I’m intimately familiar with.
@nbco556 ай бұрын
What about an archival grade DVD?
@thomase136 ай бұрын
@@nbco55 Still not as good as an M-Disc!
@muffs55mercury617 ай бұрын
This is always great news. Lost films are found all the time but it's been awhile. Being such a good print is a miracle.
@theaquariancontrarian33167 ай бұрын
Really? That was a lame shameless taylor swift plug. Theres no connection to the film 🙄🤦♂️ ridiculous
@radfoo727 ай бұрын
Please don't let Taylor Swift destroy this piece of history!
@kennypitts48297 ай бұрын
They said it three times, like that's why we are staying tuned. Writers these days are horrible.
@xenuno7 ай бұрын
@@radfoo72 She will too. The shelf life of her factory assembled music is on the order of months ...
@mondogecko016 ай бұрын
Gotta have that pro democrat narrative.. Man they really must be desperate
@thetvbaby836 ай бұрын
@@xenuno thats what i said, yrs ago. Relax gramps, change the station. 😂
@BruceWSims6 ай бұрын
It takes so much to stabilize and preserve films from that era and its not always successful. My deepest appreciation to the folks who are sensitive enough to our heritage that they go out of their way to preserve it.. Many Thanks!!😊😊😊 BTW: I hope folks are going through those other pallets.....you know.....just in case .........😮😮😮
@melanie77817 ай бұрын
Clara Bow was mentally ill, tried to commit suicide, checked herself into mental hospital, after she got out she left her family, lived alone in a bungalow as a reclusive and under the constant care of a nurse died of heart attack in 1965 at age 60.
@daveydudely99547 ай бұрын
The Aristocrats!
@daviejz66987 ай бұрын
PTSD from casting couches?
@ytzpilot7 ай бұрын
Not unusual in those days, Louise Brooks had her issues too
@mikeblair25947 ай бұрын
@@daveydudely9954 Honestly, I doubt she made all that much. Women in pictures have usually gotten screwed (pay wise). She would have been amongst that first generation to be able to use social security. You buy a bungalow with your earnings and rely on S.S. in your later years. That was pretty smart thing to do during an era when women couldn't hold their own bank accounts.
@msoda85167 ай бұрын
She had a very sad childhood her mother was mentally ill and tried to kill her on number of occasions as a child
@drctrs6 ай бұрын
Glad to hear the filmmaker, who found it, can now invest money in realizing his own film project. There’s some high justice in how it was found.
@vespelian7 ай бұрын
I was at a premier of a similar discovery in 1996 of British film biography of British prime minister David Lloyd George. He commissioned the film in 1919, then got cold feet and tried to suppress it. A biographer found it in a film can in the attic of the family home. It is an important milestone in British film history believed lost for 80 years. I spoke to the team responsible for restoring the film who said that because of its importance, the original nitrate film would be preserved in a temperature controlled environment. Most other nitrate films are copied and the originals destroyed as they are too potentially dangerous to keep around.
@jessfrankel52126 ай бұрын
What's also interesting is that the movie was directed by Gregory LaCava, who started in silents as a director of animated films and graduated to two-reelers and then full-length talkies when sound came in. One of his most famous films is My Man Godfrey, with Carole Lombard. He was prolific in the 1930's but after the war was over, he was more or less ignored by Hollywood. Such is stardom...usually, very brief.
@peter5.0567 ай бұрын
Upload that to the internet IMMEDIATELY.
@frankdenardo86847 ай бұрын
Holy Toledo!!!!!! I'm glad someone found old films. A lot of those silent films are now gone, but this one resurfaced in over 50 to 100 years. This film should be deposited into the following places. Library of Congress American Film Institute UCLA film & television archives George Eastman House Motion Picture Academy of Arts & Sciences British Film Institute The above-mentioned places are interested in "lost films."
@cactusjackNV6 ай бұрын
The biographer of Clara Bow I'm sure is more than aware.
@frankdenardo86846 ай бұрын
@cactusjackNV The National Film Registry of the Library of Congress is interested in that film, being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" to be deposited as a long lost film being found.
@SpiderxPunk7 ай бұрын
I cannot wait until we're past the point of comparing people to Taylor. No sh!t she's not like Taylor, she actually had to get by on her acting talents alone.
@ZeroPhuqsGiven20007 ай бұрын
My theory is that Taylor Swift and Conner McGregor could actually be the same person.
@nomenclature93737 ай бұрын
Every few years it is a new person or group. The 60s had the Beatles. Fast forward to the era of Madona, then to Stefani Germanotta (Lady GaGa). For fans of the Eurovision Song Contest it might be Lordi with "Hard Rock Hallelujah", etc, etc, etc.
@jamesrocket56167 ай бұрын
I was thinking that she might be Taylor Swift's ancestor but I was mistaken 😑
@paradiselost99467 ай бұрын
@@nomenclature9373 yeah, but people STILL listen to the beatles... they set a benchmark that will be hard to surpass. hard? impossible.
@wbg22097 ай бұрын
You may have a point there . Taylor and Connor have never been seen in the same room together . @@ZeroPhuqsGiven2000
@stephanie68977 ай бұрын
This is so cool ! I want to see a digitalized copy !
@rbrucewilliams29247 ай бұрын
Unbelievable. And exciting because other films are still out there ; stored currently perhaps in an elderly persons home, waiting to be discovered by their heirs.
@willyboy61267 ай бұрын
Yes...and hopefully not thrown out, as sadly, many young people are not interested in acquiring 'stuff' nowadays. 🙏
@mercedesvelasquez87817 ай бұрын
@@willyboy6126I am 35 and like my sisters(24 & 27) tell me it's all junk just throw it out ahahaha no some stuff needs to be saved. Heck I have photo's I took of underground punk bands that are still around today and those photos hold memory's for me and our part of my personal history.
@willyboy61267 ай бұрын
@@mercedesvelasquez8781That is awesome! Yes, I too have lots of wonderful treasures of what I collect and such...plus, as you say, there are a lot of precious memories attached to many things. All of my stuff will stay with me until my last breath 😊
@FromTheRoomOfLittleEase4 ай бұрын
Most news stories add to the stress I carry in my neck and back. This relieved some of that, thank you. I wish this could happen every day.
@nachtkind467 ай бұрын
the only other early actress that I would have been more impressed by the film containing would have been Theda Bara. But this is still hella awesome.
@joannemcd12577 ай бұрын
My uncle, George Wilbern, was involved in film in the SF and LA areas from the 1940-1980's. He had so much memorabilia from Hollywood, of which I have now. It is so interesting to learn about it now! I know I have a "Clara Bow" painting from him. I remember him always saying "Clara Bow, the "it" girl!"
@jakemoeller78507 ай бұрын
Wonderful story! My mom used to speak of Clara Bow.
@mikeblair25947 ай бұрын
Mine too. We used to go and watch the silent pictures every Sunday at this old theater around the corner back in the eighties. I used to run with a crew of punk rockers, and most would come. We'd end up with a theater full of old ladies and punks and everyone had a grand time. It was fun back then.
@Skank_and_Gutterboy7 ай бұрын
Early in this newscast I was like, "Whatever. What is the attraction with her?" Then at 1:49 it all made sense. Just those lively eyes alone are really something.
@spamanator6666 ай бұрын
"Found in a parking lot." Well yes, and no... We know that you want us to think it was just laying out in some random parking lot, but watching the story, it was a lot sale auction being held in a parking lot. Not as dramatic sounding, sure, but more accurate.
@jamesomeara23297 ай бұрын
Hopefully this gets some kind of release for those interested on an oldies channel or Internet site
@danielebrparish42717 ай бұрын
TCM used to have Silent Sunday to showcase silent films once a week.
@debbiefox68466 ай бұрын
This is as an amazing find. Fantastic this man cared enough to show up for this auction. My grandfather was an actor in Hollywood Silent films in the late 1910's-1929. My mom has beautiful pictures from the sets of films he was on. They are amazing. Sadly when my grandfather was in hollywood he had a huge steamer trunk full of pics that burned in a fire. He was able to save some of the pictures & my mom has cared for them for the last 55 years.
@TheJagjr44507 ай бұрын
The highest quality way to transfer to digital is the process used by iirc ILM. It advances one frame at a time, back lit with a diffused light, focuses on the grain, takes a CCD image of the back lit film frame, advances to the next frame repeat process, ad nauseam until final frame. IT is not a running conversion, it is a true frame by frame digital conversion. This way every single frame is in as crisp of focus as possible and if there is a scratch or other mar it can be corrected. The HIGH quality digital conversions of movies are done this way, as are high quality digitized photo negatives -
@TheEudaemonicPlague7 ай бұрын
As someone who has taken on the job of digitally restoring several hundred color slides from Korea 1953, I can't help but agree (I'm doing it to preserve history--no one else has these images, except the son of the photographer, and he doesn't have the means to do anything with them). I've seen video of the guys working on restoring The Third Man for the Criterion Collection. I was drooling over their gear for sure. I'd kill for the chance to work on an old film with that stuff...but I'm old and retired, so it isn't going to happen. So, I'll content myself with the Korean War slides.
@RealHomeRecording7 ай бұрын
Lasergraphics Director is the Hollywood film scanner of choice for many. ARRISCAN is another one. DFT Film too....but I think they did The Wizard of Oz on a Lasergraphics machine. So if it's good enough for Warner Bros, it's good enough for everybody.
@TheJagjr44507 ай бұрын
@@TheEudaemonicPlague I have been doing my grandfather's WW2 negs from Kusai? South Pacific Tokyo Spring of 1946. Hawaii fall of 1945. He was an officer on a destroyer Soley DD702, they were in the Panama Canal on VJ day, disarmed a few islands and also accepted the resignation of a Japanese General prior to escorting him to Trial. I made a light box with diffused light using high CRI LED's with a very close to daylight 6000k color temp. behind a couple of fresnel lenses and then clamped the neg between two sheets of glare resistant glass, focused a an 18MP digital SLR with a 100mm macro lens - and got a grain focused digital neg... EXPONENTIALLY BETTER QUALITY than a 6400DPI scanner
@cwired94076 ай бұрын
let us know when you upload a KZbin vid of the images and the process :) @@TheJagjr4450
@AcmeRacing6 ай бұрын
From being a lost film to a pristine master on safety stock? Bow's true fans must be awestruck.
@usmale497 ай бұрын
This is just great! Wouldn't mind viewing it myself! Fantastic find. Thank you for the report!
@CrampedGrampy7 ай бұрын
A wonderful find; I remember in the 1950s of my mother talking about Clara Bow movies. Please do prserve this gem.
@historicradiotelevision-bi28617 ай бұрын
Just have to bring in Taylor ****ing Swift. More importantly, what was in all those other pallets? I would have bought them all.
@roxyneeley46987 ай бұрын
Who hurt you?
@radfoo727 ай бұрын
@@roxyneeley4698Probably Taylor Swift.
@MovieMakingMan6 ай бұрын
I rescued an old 35mm film that is probably 80-100 years old in a house that was being demolished. I have a 35mm projector but was leery about running the film through it because it might be a nitrate film and too dangerous to expose to the high heat from a projector. I’m going to unroll the film enough to see the title of the film and update this comment. If anyone knows of an organization that might be interested in this film let me know.
@richinderbyshire47794 ай бұрын
Hi. What's the latest on that?
@MovieMakingMan4 ай бұрын
@@richinderbyshire4779 It’s still stored safely. It’s in my list!
@aimeeinkling7 ай бұрын
David Stenn's hot takes are completely wrong, but I'm glad they found the print!
@christinabailey69007 ай бұрын
I love Claire Bow and Louise Brooks. Clair Bow changed her hair color constantly causing trouble for the lighting person. This is amazing.
@atlanteum7 ай бұрын
Did you honestly need to drag Clara Bow through the muck of Taylor Swift to garner interest in this story..? Make at least some small effort to show some respect -
@Nosferigatoni6 ай бұрын
Thank you. People just have to associate something old to something new to make it seem relevant, when in fact its relevant all by itself.
@AlphaProto6 ай бұрын
That's an amazing story. I am happy this showed up in my feed.
@_Dark222Angel_7 ай бұрын
I transfer film to digital for a living. send it to us in Chicago. Chicago Scanning
@newwavepop5 ай бұрын
There is a lost film from 1923 called "Flaming Youth". most of the film is lost but there is one scene that still exists with Colleen Moore at a mirror doing her make up for a night out, and it is one of the most adorable things i have ever seen. i always hope that someday i will be able to see the rest of this film.
@dmacarthur53567 ай бұрын
Isn't Clara Bow widely regarded as the inspiration for Betty Boop?
@dariowiter30787 ай бұрын
NO!!!!! Helen Kane, the singer who made the song "I Want To Be Loved By You" famous in 1928, was the inspiration behind Betty Boop, not Clara! Clara inspired women like Helen to look and dress like her.
@dmacarthur53567 ай бұрын
@@dariowiter3078 OK!!!!!
@johng40936 ай бұрын
So... indirectly inspired?
@cactusjackNV6 ай бұрын
@@johng4093 *facepalm*
@kingdoc32626 ай бұрын
I like how the owner thought about passing the stock on rather than putting them in trash. Whole stack for $20 May all be preserved and put in modern formats for the future 🙏🏽
@celestialblue72297 ай бұрын
Wow, that's amazing! I wonder if there are more films in that parking lot? Clara has quite a number of lost films to be found.
@WastedTalent-6 ай бұрын
Saying he "found" it in a parking lot makes it sound like he stumbled upon it while pushing a cart into the grocery store.
@Bobalicious7 ай бұрын
How many more 'lost' films might there have been at that sale.
@StellaWaldvogel6 ай бұрын
When I heard "Clara Bow", my jaw dropped. Exciting, wonderful news! And I'm glad David Stenn bought it, it couldn't be in better hands. He did a wonderful job restoring "Maytime" and that one can be viewed online, so I'm optimistic that we'll get to see "Pill Pounder" too. But even if we don't, it's good just knowing that it's found and well-preserved.
@docsavage86407 ай бұрын
Jesus, trying to pretend Taylor Swift is part of this story... 😆 🤣 😂
@christinameyer14077 ай бұрын
They could have left her name out of the entire news story and it would have been just as good.
@Woodyperckerhead-ni3ti6 ай бұрын
Sad sht
@michaelandrade66426 ай бұрын
The closing track on Taylor Swift's upcoming 2024 studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, is titled "Clara Bow"
@PapagenoMF6 ай бұрын
you do realize, that when someone of Taylor Swift's influence mentions a long ago film star like Clara Bow, it engages her young fans in history, right? Why poo-poo that? You may not like Taylor Swift, but she's far more relevant than you, and she's obviously a Clara Bow fan to boot.
@christinameyer14076 ай бұрын
@@PapagenoMF relevant with auto tune talent.😏
@stevenward38566 ай бұрын
I verified online what I remembered about Clara Gordon Bow, that she was referred to as "the 'It' Girl". This discovery is simply amazing!
@Del-Canada7 ай бұрын
She was only 60 when she died in 1965. Heart attack.
@dfc99nyc7 ай бұрын
Rough life. Born in a Brooklyn slum in 1905 to a screwed up mother and an oft-unemployed alcoholic father who allegedly abused her. He moved his family to an apartment in Sheepshead Bay which was and still is a nice residential area. I believe the house she lived in there is still standing. I wonder what Stenn paid for that film??
@RighteousReverendDynamite6 ай бұрын
I watched a special Halloween screening of Lon Chaney, Sr.'s "Phantom of the Opera" (1925) at San Diego's Spreckels" Theatre a decade ago and they had to bring down from Hollywood one of 4 remaining special projectors made for this type of film that still worked. They had a great organist on the Wurlitzer. The film, comprised of 4 reels, had the only "colorized" version for the famous scene in which the heroine removes the Phantom's mask and surprises Chaney at his organ. Still very dramatic on big screen. Chaney was a great actor. (his only film in which he did not wear any makeup was filmed in San Diego at Balboa Park, "Tell it to the Marines!" about the Marines fighting in the Boxer Rebellion in China!)
@beyondalpha10726 ай бұрын
"I do not think my mother ever loved my father", she said. "He knew it. And it made him very unhappy, for he worshipped her always."[17]
@otpyrcralphpierre17427 ай бұрын
I'm glad that this part of History has been "recovered", but I've never been very much enthralled by Movie Stars.
@KarmaLyser7 ай бұрын
Clara Bow was nothing like Tay-Tay Swiffer. She was pretty and had talent.
@MothGirl0076 ай бұрын
Totally agree.
@andrewp75097 ай бұрын
Swifty,your no Clara Bow
@babywah32907 ай бұрын
you’re
@dariowiter30787 ай бұрын
YUP!!!!! 😁😁😁😁😁
@urbanurchin59306 ай бұрын
@andrewp7509......Swifty, YOU'RE no Clara Bow.......learn English......illiterate inbred......
@ModernDayRenaissanceMan6 ай бұрын
Play it nationwide as part of a double feature like the old days.
@showaltermicro7 ай бұрын
Taylor who ?
@dariowiter30787 ай бұрын
😝😝😝😝😝
@Sunriru6 ай бұрын
this really is amazing. i love silent films so much. so glad this film was found. hope to see it
@Deuteromis7 ай бұрын
Also I thought it was going to revealed that Taylor Swift was related to Clara...
@radfoo727 ай бұрын
Taylor Swift is related to a spoiled jug of milk.
@MothGirl0076 ай бұрын
Clara Bow was a thousand times cooler than Taylor Swift.
@MrFooqair6 ай бұрын
I worked for the oldest commercial photography studio in Lansing, MI. Our basement was loaded with shelves full of old glass 8x10 negatives. Thousands of them. People from Michigan State University came in the 90's and poured through every one of them and digitized the ones of importance. This is back when we were using Photoshop 3!! I remember seeing a photo of men laying the cornerstone of the MI Capitol building. Horse drawn carriages, the construction of Oldsmobile, diners with burgers for a nickel and burger, fries and a Coke for 25 cents. So much history in that dark basement and there's basements like this in every city in America.
@Drew7917 ай бұрын
“Pill Pounder” 😂 the more things change, the more they remain the same
@Rogueaviation4 ай бұрын
Thank you for stories like this. Its good to hear the amazing and uplifting things that are happening in our world. Thanks tonthe producers and camera and audio folks (and all you others) that make these stories come alive on the KZbin.
@allen-rp3gm7 ай бұрын
I wish I could find one of my great grandmother Mae Botty's films.
@MT-tn4ei6 ай бұрын
Wow! It’s amazing that this film survived all these years! May Clara Bow Rest In Peace.
@sarah2.0177 ай бұрын
It had already been restored, no less!
@dianewilliams11257 ай бұрын
What a wonderful find! Thank you for preserving this treasure!😊😊😊
@frederickcombs86617 ай бұрын
Such good news... Clara Bow was magic
@finddeniro7 ай бұрын
In the 1930s. Hundreds of silent films were vaulted ..1950s open the vault. All were Melted..
@Aromatic.Bleach7 ай бұрын
Yeah. Theda Bara is my doppelganger. Only knew that because of a program that matches your face with celebrities and other people. Looked into her and found out essentially everything she did was destroyed in a fire. Sad.
@Cobbmtngirl7 ай бұрын
Very cool find!
@JamesOzmun7 ай бұрын
This is the _feel-good_ story of the month. Thanks for sharing❤
@blibertinerealm85497 ай бұрын
I love old films! I wonder what other films were sold in Omaha
@CherifSakhri-r6t6 ай бұрын
Thankyou very much for the clips from the good old mories.❤
@realQuestion6 ай бұрын
they don't say the name of the movie that was discovered until almost three minutes into the segment! Come on, guys.
@johng40936 ай бұрын
Taylor Swift didn't mention the film title so it's not really relevant...🙄
@forexed89485 ай бұрын
for missing for a long time, but still as beautiful as the day as the day it first hit the theatres all those decades ago.
@Karl_B7 ай бұрын
So this is NOT an original (on nitrate), this was a copy "printed on safety stock". 2:38 Therefore it was in perfect condition with it's plastic insert which is not old. Also the "finder" is into old films and has a projector but no screen???
@miked63357 ай бұрын
I was wondering if they purposely showed such a lousy image in order to prevent people from getting a good screengrab. Not sure why they would do that.
@801walt5 ай бұрын
Wonderful. And the clips you showed looked to be excellent condition. I'd love to see it if it gets digitized.
@neilboucher25297 ай бұрын
I knew Taylor swift would somehow be mentioned here on the news.
@matthew81537 ай бұрын
The media can’t go 10 minutes without mentioning their satanic human sacrifice maker. So many women are in their 30s, unmarried, and will never have children because of imitating her.