WORLD PREMIERE! DOCTOR DOLITTLE 1967 RESTORED OPENING CREDITS! скачать в хорошем качестве

WORLD PREMIERE! DOCTOR DOLITTLE 1967 RESTORED OPENING CREDITS!

The "new" footage and edit kicks in at about 2:35; the opening is just an image for the Overture music. As hard-core Doctor Dolittle fans know, after the disastrous Minneapolis sneak preview, great big chunks of footage were hacked out the movie, including the entire pre-credit sequence where Rex Harrison travels to Africa to pull a crocodile's tooth. Just a few seconds of that sequence were clumsily integrated back into the movie, near its end, for the reason of advertising: Arthur P. Jacobs' expensive ad campaign's central image was Harrison riding a giraffe...which came from the pre-credit Africa sequence. So...those brief shots were plugged into the end of the movie when Dolittle goes searching for a whale (complete with mismatching clothes), and that was that. No known copy of that full pre-credit sequence exists, although there are one or two promotional still shots of Harrison with the crocodile, along with a few seconds in the original trailer (legend has it that Arthur P. Jacobs DID keep a complete 16mm, but that his widow, Natalie Trundy, loaned it out to a friend...who never returned it). With so little to work with, I went ahead and put the overture first (it would have been black leader in the theaters, but I put that DVD menu image there, so viewers wouldn't think something was wrong with the video). Then, I created the African sequence title card (borrowing a background frame from the animated credits). I then took the isolated cut footage, scrubbed out the few bits of dialogue that didn't match the search for the croc, and put them together, overlaid with some jungle sounds and corresponding animal calls (rhino, monkeys, elephant, and croc). I then laid down a small portion of the musical cue "Prologue" from the newly restored soundtrack. I also reversed the shot of the croc, at the sequence's end, to show the Doctor's work was done. Technically, the shots are out of order--Harrison rode the rhino away, after having the elephant help pull the tooth--but there was no way to convey that order with the footage that remains. Then, I synched up the animated credits (they were originally longer, and were cut, too), and the opening scene in Puddleby. I hope fans enjoy this (not sure if it's been done before!)...but I'll gladly delete it when someone discovers that lost footage!