| Fresh unusual image often deemed
too bizarre or risque to be included in early newsreels along with
extraordinarily rich historical outtakes that offer a rare glimpse
of early 20th Century America are now being represented by HISTORIC
FILMS.
The Fox Movietone Newsreel Outtake & Unused Stories
Collection was donated by Fox to the University of South
Carolina, and consists of 11 million feet of 35mm camera original
news and slice of life footage shot between 1919 to 1934
and 1942 to 1944. The latter portion of the collection
also includes complete released newsreel for those years.
The outtakes are much richer in content and longer in running
time than the severely abridged fragments used in actual released
newsreels. A released newsreel would include approximately 6 to
8 different stories to make up the running time of 7 minutes. If
a 30 second excerpt of a presidential speech was used in the released
newsreel, the outtake would often be the entire speech, sometimes
running as long as 30 minutes.
Through this exclusive arrangement with the University of South
Carolina, we can make available complete coverage of important historical
events allowing producers much more leeway and content choices.
Never-before-seen, rich, funny and unusual slice of life footage
gives us a rare glimpse of early 20th Century America at its most
off-the-cuff and surreal.
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