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...true nostalgia for physical pain, for the ordeals involved in creating motion pictures honestly, unhampered by union restrictions, production supervision, and general professional laziness. Many statements, among them Nancy Carroll's memoir of shooting MGM's The Water Hole in the heart of Death Valley (the casualty rate approaching Stroheim's for Greed, the most famous horror story of Death Valley's filming), suggest strongly that the first American film-makers willingly demanded a verisimilitude unknown to most of today's artists. Brownlow quotes the great French director Abel Gance (La Roue, Napoleon...
Greed's tempermental director Erich von Stroheim, known when acting as "the man you love to hate," consistently made films Paramount considered too long and too morbid. The Merry-Go-Round was taken away from him and completed by Rupert Julian (The Phantom of the Opera), and no one knows how much was shot by Stroheim; The Wedding March, originally almost four hours, was halved, the second half, Honey-moon, never released and probably non-existent...
...Stroheim's only sound film, Walking Down Broadway, was ripped apart by Fox, small pieces of it used in a later film entitled Hello Sister, also missing apparently. Similarly, Chaplin hired Josef von Sternberg (The Blue Angel) to direct a film, The Sea-Gull, which Chaplin took home with him upon completion and never released. Chaplin never gave a reason for his capricious suppression of the film, and its existence now is doubtful...
...size of the job has prevented the AFI from setting any rules about use of films: no screenings are planned resembling those of the Museum of Modern Art, the Cinematheque, or London's National Film Theatre--and Stevens can only hope that a student writing a thesis on Stroheim will be able to come to the AFI offices in Washington, D.C. and see his films. Both Stevens and Kahlenberg are looking into plans regarding closed-circuit televising of films for study purposes...
...diverse goals of the seventeen-man staff of the Institute. Nonetheless, Kahlenberg is as optimistic as he is resigned to a long haul: asked if the archive would include any foreign film, he laughed and said resignedly, "We only have 32,000 American films to get first."Erich von Stroheim...