Universal sadness that is.
"It is with great sadness that I must inform you that yesterdays
fire destroyed nearly 100% of the archive prints kept here on the
lot. Due to this we will be unable to honor any film bookings of
prints that were set to ship from here. Over the next few weeks and
months we will be able to try and piece together what material we
do have and if any prints exist elsewhere. For the time being
please check your rental confirmations and look under shipping
instructions. If the print was set to ship from the studio then you
date is now canceled. If the shipping instructions say ship from
Deluxe then those dates are still good."
There was a fire at Universal studios, and from what I gather it directly affected their film storage and archival warehouse. Many Universal titles will never be seen in 35mm publicly again.
2019: hello, good-bye
4 years ago
oh, my god. My brain started pulling up "what have i seen from universal?"
ReplyDeletemy next thought was 'why the fuck didn't they have a fire control system?' Like, the value of any one of their block-busters must have been worth installing a top-of-the-technology fire control system.
does this mean the negatives were destroyed? or just the most recent reproductions from the negatives?
how sad.