Comments on: Fox Before the Code at Film Forum http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/fox-before-the-code-at-new-york-citys-film-forum/ thinking film Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:03:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Andre Soares http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/fox-before-the-code-at-new-york-citys-film-forum/#comment-90147 Andre Soares Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:15:57 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2006/10/13/fox-before-the-code-at-new-york-citys-film-forum/#comment-90147 That *is* great. L.A. had one such festival in the late (or mid) 90s. All very rare Columbia films made during the Pre-Code era. The quality of the films was highly variable, and, admittedly, most of them weren't very good. But it was chance to see those rare movies -- there was even a pre-WB Bette Davis in "The Menace" -- that as far as I know were kept locked in vaults before the festival, and have been kept locked in vaults ever since. Unfortunately, the Paramount Before the Code series never made it to Los Angeles. That *is* great.

L.A. had one such festival in the late (or mid) 90s. All very rare Columbia films made during the Pre-Code era. The quality of the films was highly variable, and, admittedly, most of them weren’t very good. But it was chance to see those rare movies — there was even a pre-WB Bette Davis in “The Menace” — that as far as I know were kept locked in vaults before the festival, and have been kept locked in vaults ever since.

Unfortunately, the Paramount Before the Code series never made it to Los Angeles.

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]]> By: James http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/fox-before-the-code-at-new-york-citys-film-forum/#comment-89024 James Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:00:21 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2006/10/13/fox-before-the-code-at-new-york-citys-film-forum/#comment-89024 Hey, thanks for the kind mention! Someone posted this information on the alt.movies.silent newsgroup. So, I thought I'd pass it along to the dear editor of this site. Gee, what a saliva-inducing group of films this is. And the Fox Pre-Codes seem to be among the rarest of the rare. In fact, I seldom see any Fox early films widely available aside from Shirley Temples(By then the studio being Twentieth Century Fox) and those splashy Technicolor musicals of WWII. Here's hoping someone realizes the desire among early film buffs, to see these films and produces a DVD boxed set. Hey, thanks for the kind mention! Someone posted this information on the alt.movies.silent newsgroup. So, I thought I’d pass it along to the dear editor of this site. Gee, what a saliva-inducing group of films this is. And the Fox Pre-Codes seem to be among the rarest of the rare. In fact, I seldom see any Fox early films widely available aside from Shirley Temples(By then the studio being Twentieth Century Fox) and those splashy Technicolor musicals of WWII. Here’s hoping someone realizes the desire among early film buffs, to see these films and produces a DVD boxed set.

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