Count Gamula wrote:
I have to admit I rankle a bit every time someone refers to these two reconstructions as "fan edits" or when someone assumes they are an attempt to "fix" the movie or make it better through creative choices made by Clark or myself. Or they think we claim that our re-edits represent what Browning wanted the final film to be. All Clark and I have done is arrange the the scenes in their original order according to the script to see how the film plays that way. Clark worked only with footage from the Browning film to create a very watchable alternative version of the movie based strictly on the structure of the script.
That's what was fascinating about Clark's re-edit when I first saw it.  It did "fix" continuity errors that I never realized existed and made the storyline play more cohesively.  But it wasn't intentional on Clark's part - he'd just re-arranged the scenes to match the Latino version!  The results to the Browning version, however, were indicative that it was no coincidence.  The movie had been designed to play that way in the first place.

- GJS