Post by forlornjackalope on Jun 19, 2024 14:25:26 GMT
If you poke around the Wiki and search "vault fire", you'll find a good amount of results. There's also that anime studio fire from the last 10 or so years, too.
Something more lowkey that comes to mind right away are the master tapes for the OSDM band Lucifer's Hammer, with two of them being destroyed in a house fire in the late 80s.
Can someone tell me examples of the movies and tv shows lost to the public from any sort of fire related incidents?
although not really TV shows,
all original nitrate versions of MGM's Tom & Jerry, and Tex Avery cartoons from 1940-1951 don't exist anymore due to a vault fire in the late 70s.
so all original intro's, title cards, and end credits....... ALL GONE!
of Tom & Jerry only around 6 or 8 original cartoons were surprisingly found in another vault in or around 2008ish, which had somehow been misplaced.
for Tex Avery, in 2005 an original cartoon was found as a dupe negative, while some other material also still exists, such as blackface gags, and the original complete version of "Blitz Wolf" with the "buy war bonds" message at the end. "Wild and Woolfy" also still exists with the original intro credits and unaltered "wanted poster text" starting scene.
Universal Vault Fire of 2008 destroyed thousands of masters to the world's most well known music
I guess that’s also where the land before time deleted scenes must have went.
It seems like only music was stored in there. (Luckly, nothing from Weird Al.) EDIT: Film was also lost in the fire too. There's still a chance that the deleted scenes still exist somewhere. (Unfortunately, somethings from I Love Lucy where lost. So, technically things related to Weird Al where lost.)
Last Edit: Jun 21, 2024 0:43:21 GMT by ModWalletGuy
Many silent films like London After Midnight (1927), Saved from the Titanic (1912), and The Honeymoon (1929)etc. got burned in fires because they were stored in nitrate film canisters, which are very flammable and can easily set themselves on fire if they are neglected for too long or stored improperly.
That reason alone is why so many silent films are lost or are thought to be irrecoverable, along with film companies not seeing any reason to preserve them because they were released before the advent of TV and streaming services.
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Many silent films like London After Midnight (1927), Saved from the Titanic (1912), and The Honeymoon (1929)etc. got burned in fires because they were stored in nitrate film canisters, which are very flammable and can easily set themselves on fire if they are neglected for too long or stored improperly.
That reason alone is why so many silent films are lost or are thought to be irrecoverable, along with film companies not seeing any reason to preserve them because they were released before the advent of TV and streaming services.
The Wikipedia article for Saved from the Titanic says that US President William Howard Taft "received a personal copy of the film". Could it have ended up with one of his descendants or at a presidential museum?
Universal Vault Fire of 2008 destroyed thousands of masters to the world's most well known music
I remember that day so vividly. I was at a nearby hotel for a family vacation, smoke everywhere. It just goes to show fires can happen at any time, they're not as old school as they seem.
