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cjh5801 wrote:As has been discussed elsewhere, in 1931 Universal ordered that Browning's DRACULA be re-edited just prior to release. The re-edit introduced a number of continuity errors and slowed the second and third acts of the film to a glacial pace. In a viewing of George Melford's Spanish Language version of DRACULA, I noticed that the story flowed much better, but that most of the scenes pretty much duplicated those in Browning's film. They were just in a different order. So I re-cut Browning's version following the template of the Melford film. Later, I obtained a copy of Philip Riley's MagicImage shooting script and discovered that the continuity of my re-cut, and the Melford version, follows the continuity of the script (with a few scenes missing, presumably lost in the studio's re-edit). The re-cut version is still a bit slow in spots (it's a product of its times), but I believe anyone seeing it for the first time will be surprised at how much better it plays than the version we're all familiar with.
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cjh5801 wrote: I'm not sure what, if any, authority a director had over a film's editing this early in the game.
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cjh5801 wrote: Who knows why Universal would re-edit DRACULA into an incoherent mess just prior to release. But it's indisputable that they did the same thing to MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE, as brilliantly demonstrated by the reconstruction proposed by Tim Lucas and Gary Prange.
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