Category Archives: Cinema
17 Minutes Of Lost Footage From 2001: A Space Odyssey Found In Salt Mine
SEVENTEEN MINUTES’ of missing footage from Stanley Kubrick’s seminal sci-fi film 2001: A Space Odyssey has been found by Warner Bros. in a Kansas salt mine, special effects advisor Douglas Trumbull has revealed. Continue reading
Filed under Cinema, Finds, Science Fiction
Top Ten Lost Horror Films
WITH Halloween just around the corner, one of my favourite sites – Cinemassacre – has posted a video countdown of the top 10 lost horror films. Chosen by the Angry Video Game Nerd himself, James Rolfe, the list features some … Continue reading
Filed under Cinema, Lists, Silent Era, Video
Newsnight on new cut of sci-fi epic Metropolis
IN advance of the UK-wide cinema re-release of restored silent sci-fi epic Metropolis later this month, BBC’s Newsnight has reported on how Fritz Lang’s masterpiece came to be reunited with 30 minutes’ of long-lost footage found in an Argentinian film … Continue reading
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Unknown Chaplin Film Discovered
A LOST Charlie Chaplin film has been discovered at an antiques show in America. The 10-minute silent film – a Keystone comedy called A Thief Catcher – features the English comic actor in a cameo role. It is reckoned to … Continue reading
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Trove of Long-Lost Silent Films Discovered
YOU wait for one, then 75 come along at once… A trove of 75 ‘lost’ silent American films – including an early movie from acclaimed director John Ford – has been discovered in New Zealand. The New Zealand Film Archive … Continue reading
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Weekly Round-Up – 09/05/10
PHOTO FIND SHEDS LIGHT ON THE WICKER MAN A CACHE of previously unseen photographs from the filming of seminal ’70s horror movie The Wicker Man have solved a long-standing movie mystery. The rare images, hidden away in a suitcase for … Continue reading
Weekly Round-up – 02/05/10
FRAGMENTS OF HOLLYWOOD SNIPPETS from missing silent-era movies were screened as part of the first TCM Film Festival, held in Hollywood, last Sunday (April 25). The program “Fragments (1916 – 1929)” featured a rare collection of scenes, reels and segments … Continue reading
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Weekly Round-Up – 25/04/10
EACH WEEK Wiped will be bringing you the best of the rest: smaller stories that might have passed you by, but are worth checking out all the same. So to begin… OPRHANED OUT OF THE UNKNOWN CLIPS ON YOUTUBE The … Continue reading
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Long-Lost Lincoln Film Gets Premiere
A LONG-LOST silent movie about President Lincoln is to get its first screening in over 90 years after being discovered in a clear out. When Lincoln Paid was among seven fragile reels of nitrate film found by a contractor cleaning … Continue reading
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What A Bargain! Lost Chaplin Short Bought On Ebay
IT’S AMAZING what you can pick up on eBay for a pittance, as Morace Park discovered to his delight recently. For Park, an antiques dealer and inventor, has wowed the movie community by stumbling upon a previously unknown, uncatalogued film … Continue reading
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