On our way to Death Valley
I thought maybe someone here would enjoy this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SRbRjg1jiOw
Wow, that's great - thank you!
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As a fan of 'Greed,' thanks so much for that. Where did you find it?
shareI'm sorry, I did not upload that video, I only found it online by accident.
Looks like something from a newsreel, might want to ask the person who uploaded it to YouTube.
Great stuff! I like the bit at the end with the live music duo accompanying the take of McTeague walking through the desert.
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Yes, it's interesting to watch and a little amusing.
I found a little more information about this video:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0471602/
Scrolling down to the Trivia bit:
* C-V News were reel serials shown in movie theaters before the main feature. The were produced in Southern California in the early-1920s. It was a short lived newsreel and was an offshoot of the Vanderbilt tabloid newspaper chain (Vanderbilt Newspapers Inc.). "C-V" stands for Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.--the producer of the series.share
* This is the most famous of the C-V newsreels to survive, as the filming of "Greed" in Death Valley at the height of summer is still infamous today.
* Director of this news short remains unknown.
* The DVD print of this short was copied at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A 35mm positive preprint (from the donated nitrate print) at 19 and 23 frames per second.
* One of the 50 films in the 3-disk boxed DVD set called "More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931" (2004), compiled by the National Film Preservation Foundation from 5 American film archives. This film is preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, has a running time of 4 minutes and an added piano music score.