THE WAY OF ALL FLESH

Ed Hulse

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Jun 14, 2006, 8:56:34 PM6/14/06

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Does this survive? I ought to know but can't remember.

Robert Birchard

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Jun 14, 2006, 8:58:26 PM6/14/06

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Only a short clip in one of the Paramount "Movie Memories" series.

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Eric Grayson

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Jun 14, 2006, 11:33:04 PM6/14/06

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I've got a print of the Movie Memories. The clip looks like it was a
wonderful film. Pity it doesn't survive.

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ChaneyFan

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Jun 15, 2006, 2:51:38 AM6/15/06

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To confirm what others have written...It is lost except for the short
(2-3 min) clip that survives as part of the Paramount Movie Memories
(or whatever it was called) short that Blackhawk sold.

king...@verizon.net

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Jun 15, 2006, 10:01:17 AM6/15/06

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It was called MOVIE MILESTONES. Paramount issued a grand series of 2
different shorts in 1935, the first featured what is now the only
surviving footage of Lon Chaney in THE MIRICLE MAN.

mikeg...@gmail.com

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Jun 15, 2006, 11:08:24 AM6/15/06

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king...@verizon.net wrote:
> It was called MOVIE MILESTONES. Paramount issued a grand series of 2
> different shorts in 1935, the first featured what is now the only
> surviving footage of Lon Chaney in THE MIRICLE MAN.

Actually there's additional Miracle Man footage in The House That
Shadows Built, a Paramount self-tribute film from 1932 which was shown
at Cinesation a couple of yeas ago.

Harlett O'Dowd

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Jun 15, 2006, 4:01:17 PM6/15/06

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Jon - somebody - is there a list of what survives in fragments thanks
to these types of sound-era shorts?

John Aldrich

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Jun 15, 2006, 4:32:51 PM6/15/06

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On 15 Jun 2006 13:01:17 -0700, "Harlett O'Dowd"
<chris.c...@worldspan.com> wrote:

I don;t think there are that many. You can probably count them on one
hand. The two mentioned here, THE WAY OF ALL FLESH and THE MIRACLE
MAN are the two most prominent, I believe.

--John

Eric Grayson

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Jun 15, 2006, 5:03:46 PM6/15/06

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There are two volumes, called Movie Milestones, made in 1936, edited by
none other than Fred "Cinerama" Waller.

If anyone is really excited about it, I'll pull the reel and project
it, but my recollection is that the two mentioned are the most
significant. There's extensive footage of Beau Geste, which isn't
lost, and a number of others (Wings, I believe) that aren't lost
either.

There is, alas, a substantial overlap (but not complete) between the
Miracle Man footage in House that Shadows Built and Movie Milestones.

The footage of Way of All Flesh is of Emil Jannings arriving to hear a
performance of his own son's violin playing. The son doesn't know that
Jannings is his father and for some reason he can't tell the son. It's
a very Germanic, yet Chaney-esque moment, made more poignant by
excellent playing by Jannings.

Eric

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Christopher Snowden

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Jun 15, 2006, 9:57:30 PM6/15/06

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Eric Grayson wrote:

> I've got a print of the Movie Memories. The clip looks like it was a
> wonderful film. Pity it doesn't survive.

Paramount did a remake, a decade or so after the Jannings original,
with Akim Tamiroff in the lead. Now Tamiroff was a very fine,
underrated actor, but in watching his performance I was just absolutely
certain that he was mimicking Jannings. His mannerisms and expressions
were exactly like those of the beaten-down Jannings in THE LAST LAUGH
and THE LAST COMMAND.

The remake simply had to have been made along the lines of the
original, and it's a very moving, powerful film. I don't know why it
doesn't have a reputation today.

greta de groat

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Jun 16, 2006, 12:56:12 AM6/16/06

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Harlett O'Dowd wrote:

Jon - somebody - is there a list of what survives in fragments thanks
to these types of sound-era shorts?

A couple i know of--there are two clips from My Official Wife in Warner Brother's 1931 Vitaphone short "The Movie Album", and a clip of Nazimova and Hobart Bosworth (i think) in My Son in a Warner Bros. Passing Parade.

I often look at those annoying Pete Smith travesties and wonder if that is the only surviving footage of whatever film they are ridiculing.

greta

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Bruce Calvert

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Jun 20, 2006, 2:47:07 PM6/20/06

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"Eric Grayson" <filmspam...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> There are two volumes, called Movie Milestones, made in 1936, edited by
> none other than Fred "Cinerama" Waller.
>
> If anyone is really excited about it, I'll pull the reel and project
> it, but my recollection is that the two mentioned are the most
> significant. There's extensive footage of Beau Geste, which isn't
> lost, and a number of others (Wings, I believe) that aren't lost
> either.
>

I've got a Blackhawk 16mm print of one of these. It contains scenes of
BLOOD AND SAND (1922) with Valentino and Nita Naldi, THE COVERED WAGON
(1923) with J. Warren Kerrigan, THE MIRACLE MAN (1919) with Chaney, Thomas
Meighan, and Betty Compson, and BEAU GESTE (1926) with Ronald Coleman and
William Powell. The MM scenes are of the criminal gang around a table
talking, and then the "healing miracle" scene from the end of the film.

I'm pretty sure that Blackhawk title at the front says copyright 1935, not
1936.

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Bruce Calvert
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