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'Out of circulation'...or not?


According to the material I've read on the Turner Classic Movies website, and on the DVD that I just watched, "Double Harness" was one of a group of six films by the producer Merian Cooper that had been considered "lost" until 2006 when prints were discovered in the archives at Brigham Young University, restored, and shown by TCM in 2007 "after having not been publicly screened for decades." All six films were then released on DVD in a set called "Lost and Found RKO Collection."

How, then, does the first page of reader reviews of "Double Harness" on this site contain four reviews predating 2007, going back as far as 1999? Where and how did they see it? The mere presence of those reviews here seems to contradict the narrative that "Double Harness" had been completely out of circulation from the late Fifties until 2007.

I suppose it's POSSIBLE the reviewers who didn't say where they saw it were just relying on their memory of having seen the film forty-something years ago, but I doubt it. It was enjoyable but not THAT memorable!

One review, dated March 31, 2004, mentions that it's based on a showing at the Cinefest festival. I Googled it and sure enough there it is, being "publicly screened" in 2004:

http://www.picking.com/cinefest2004.html

Very strange.

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