So it was only newsreel footage in Contact?
Since you’re mentioning TV, the most of the first couple of seasons of “What’s My Line?” are missing as well as an experimental color broadcast (9/9/54).
I’m sure that if the garden sheds of New Zealand were systematically searched some more examples of McKenzie’s work would be unearthed.
Peter Jackson probably has a pretty big shed by now.
Holy cats, I thought I’d been sniffing glue and hallucinated those commercials. I think I even did a half-assed google search on the subject some time back(unsuccessfully). . .can’t remember much of them (might be the glue, might be a self-defense mechanism of the mind), but they were so out there that I evidently could not purge them entirely. SANTO GOLD!
That reference startled me out of a year of lurking! Thanks. . .I know I’m not alone now.
There was apparently an Ultimate Cut version of Dune (David Lynch, '84) which was a good 4 hours long.
Not the Lynch Version…
Not the Alan Smithee version…
Not the edited Lynch + Smithee version…
…but a four hour ass-cramper version. 
Right.
Experimental color broadcasts ended on December 17, 1953, when the FCC approved the NTSC color system.
If it’s a celebrity panel show, it may be some of the only footage of someone who was primarily a stage performer, or whose films were also lost. I find old game shows quite entertaining regardless. They aren’t Playhouse 90 or anything, but they’re still an interesting part of American culture.
I hear he’s looking to buy a second one.
Having read about that, I don’t think that’s a major loss. Even if it wasn’t any good, I’d certainly like to see the lost Marx Brothers film.
The Two Sheds
I’d like to see Greed too.
Hey, am I nuts?! I could have sworn I saw Greed on tv one night. It would have been on Knowledge Network, KCTS or FrenchCBC, all out of the Vancouver area. I know for sure that I’ve seen clips. I particularly remember the windstorm.
I’ve got one. “Monster Dog”, AKA "Leviathan, starring Alice Cooper. It was made in Spain back in the Eighties. The film isn’t exactly lost, just the soundtrack.
See, here’s how it happened. The thing was filmed in English, but a while later the producers decided they’d rather release it in Spanish. They got Spanish speaking actors to redo all the dialogue. For whatever reason (cheapness, I guess), they simply recorded over the original. Then they decided to go back to English, got another set of actors and re-did it again. All that’s left of the first soundtrack is two songs - “Identity Crisis” and “See Me In The Mirror”. From what I hear, it sucks kinda bad, but I’d love to get my hands on it! It’s out on DVD now.
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I’d like to see Greed too.
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I mean “London After Midnight”, of course.
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It exists alright, but in heavily edited form.
Oh, I didn’t see your correction.
Funny, but I’m sure I remember seeing informercials not for Santo Gold but for a fake diamond material called “Ice”. The slogan went “ICE… the official gem of the new motion picture Blood Circus!”
So as not to be completely off-topic, aren’t there lots of scenes missing from the Judy Garland version of “A Star is Born”? I recently saw a version which seemed to have all of the audio but the action for several scenes was represented by either black and white stills or storyboards. I assume that there were creative diffferences leading to a shorter cut being released a la The Wicker Man.
Thinking about it, could it have been Nosferatu that you saw? I don’t know if there was a storm in either Greed or London after midnight but I’m pretty sure there was a storm and shipwreck in Nosferatu
“What’s My Line” was on CBS.
The person who maintains that show (back when it was on TVTome) is a hardcore enthusiast about the show and has done extensive research, FWIW.
Sorry, my date was off. It was 9/19/54.
Throughout 1954, CBS did one-time-only color broadcasts of their otherwise black and white series like What’s My Line? So in that sense the color broadcast was “experimental”, but not in the sense that the FCC used to describe color broadcasts made before the FCC had set a standard.
Storm, no shipwreck, as I recall.
Nosferatu seduced my daughter, who normally doesn’t give a rip about old movies. I was watching it in the basement when she came in to ask some question.
She looked at the screen and asked, “What’s this?”
A minute later, a voice from over my shoulder (she hadn’t managed to make it out of the room): “This is interesting!”
An hour later, “Wow, that was really good!”
Muuwahahahahahahahaaaaaaa…