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Originally Posted by pwalker8
There are a lot of old movies and TV shows that are lost forever. One of the interesting stories about film restoration was the story about the restoration of a couple of John Wayne flicks, The High and The Mighty and Island in the Sky. Apparently, because of copyright issues, there were only a couple of copies in a film vault, and because of water damage and a lost reel, the movie was almost lost and it took a lot of time and effort to piece together a restored version.
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A good example of that is the Judy Garland movie "A Star is Born" from, I think, 1954. No good complete copies have ever been found. I bought the reconstruction they managed to make from a variety of partial copies and there are 2 or 3 fairly long sections with only voice. They've filled in with still pictures of the making of the movie while you listen. This is a film that was nominated for quite a few academy awards and golden globe awards. It even won the best actor and actress golden globe awards.
It's ranked by the American Film Institute as #43 in their best picture list and as #7 in their best musical list. And yet it's been partly lost.
It's still a good movie to watch but it's kind of heartbreaking that it's not all there.
I'm not sure this can be blamed on copyright. I have no idea what caused this.
Barry