@hadrian: "Howdy folks,
I was just wondering if anyone out there had leads on, or access to, a
16mm of  Benjamin Christensen'sThe Devil's Circus, starring Norma
Shearer.  I booked it from Warner Brother's for our August mini-fest
of Silent Sirens (A different female icon from the silent era every
Thursday), but just found out that their print is a "junk print" and
wouldn't be available.  If I have to, I'll cancel the engagement and
find a substitute Norma Shearer, but I really wanted to see this one,
and we've already made up the program, etc.   I found an old
alt.movies.silent post of someone saying he'd seen 16mm's around, so I
thought I'd throw this out into the void.
By the way, the other films we'll be showing are A Fool There Was, The
Flesh and the Devil, Manhandled, and Diary of a Lost Girl. All great,
but played more often....
Hadrian"
    @hadrian: "Our plan was to play it on 35mm, from the Warner Brothers vault.
Warner Brothers has the rights to all the MGM silents, by the way, so
I'm not sure why someone would be playing something from an MGM
vault.  I don't think UCLA was playing their own print, because it's
not listed in their online database (<url>
cinema.library.ucla.edu/).  Warner Brothers DOES have a print, but
they referred to it as "junk". Maybe I should press them further, and
ask if we can book it anyways. But maybe "Junk" is code for "We can't
find it".
On Jul 31, 6:42 pm, "David P. Hayes"
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    @hadrian: "Sorry about that Dave.I misread and thought you had said you saw it a
year ago (which would have beenWarner Brothers time). Regardless, I"ve
asked for more details on why the print is "Junk" and it seemed to
have 2 "digs" in it. Personally, I think, considering the relative
rarity, that's still quite possibly presentable. It looks like they're
being nice enough to let me inspect the print myself, and make my own
judgement call.
Thanks for everyone's input. I'll let you know how it turns out.
Hadrian
 On Aug 1, 6:40 pm, "David P. Hayes"
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