All that's on DVD is the black and white public domain 50's TV print that has quite a bit of the Ziegfeld show part extracted due to nudity. I'd love to see the whole thing in its restored form.
Film restoration is a science that continues to develop. The longer the wait, the better the end result. Metropolis (1927) is the perfect example. The Kino restoration recently had to be redone after the discovery of archival footage. Don't forget the fact that these old films don't have a huge following. I eagerly await the DVD release of GTAG. I'm also willing to be patient.
Did I observe a few exposed breasts and other things? Must be my imagination. Forget about the later sanitized Ziegfeld movies featuring William Powell. This is the real Ziegfeld, and it is truly Glorious.
mca owns the rights to this print as well as other restored technicolor prints like follow thru and the vagabond king and part color pointed heels but because mary eaton is not a big star mca is too greedy to restore it and put it on dvd they only want to serve the fan of popular classic only we serious fans are a minority target were big but they want quick profit this is based on are corrupt governmnet that is promoting greed
@mikemcgee Yeah, Universal does own the prints, but the film itself is public domain. Really, I fail to see why ANYONE (be it Universal, Paramount, or even Warners) has yet to do a DVD. MESSAGE TO UNIVERSAL: LICENSE THIS TO CRITERION IF NEED BE!!! Just get this on DVD!
As much as it irks many of us, there will be a time when everything old will have been restored and someone will have it all placed very nicely in one compact storage medium. Until then, isn't it nice to hunt and hope. Discovery is half the fun. I think most importantly right now is getting some of our peers to talk of their lives during this early time. In ten or so years it will be an impossibility.
the reason why only a bad print on dvd is because mca is anti two color technicolor and too greedy too put the better print out for the serious fans of classic films they own folow thru but are too greedy too put that out not even vagabond king they want the fast buck only from popular classics and the majority of casual fans of classic films
There are some good points to this new youtube face, but I can't find the FAVORITE button. I don't want to add it to a playlist. I like my old quicklist button too.
Also, in addition to the instability of the Nitro-Cellulose Medium that they used to Print the positive image on, as it got more brittle w/age & lack of care, it also became Chemically unstable, so that it would be flammable & @ times self-ignite, Causing a Vault Fire. Many films in their original condition were lost in this fashion, w/only the Black and White 16mm TV print transfer on safetey film as the survivor of a time gone past. The color Cinema technology for this period is superb
Oh yes, it was actually so risque that the 1950s TV version which is found on many cheap DVDs has these scenes completely removed, as well as some scenes that were in color were just cheaply processed in black and white. Disgusting isn't it?
WOW..thankyou thankyou thankyou for posting this!!!ive been trying to find footage of the ziegfield girls for years-this is just amazing.... damn i wish i had the budget to recreate something like this!!
Oh crap don't tell me Turner owns the rights to this :(. There's so many things they still need to release, but I think they take pride in seeing their unreleased stuff rot away in their vaults. Shame.
The color sequence in this movie is so breathtaking.I don't know much about this movie, but it is also a Paramount Picture.
Mary Eaton co-starred w/Oscar Shaw in "The Cocanuts" in 1929 also. Was "Glorifying the American Girl" shot in Los Angeles, or Astoria NY? This movie has suffered worse than Paramount on Parade. Ihave a VHS copy from the MCA 50's Black and White 16mm film TV Print. That is what's out there for now.
But the original 35mm Negative does exist in the Paramount Vaults.
I had heard that the only complete 35mm print with the color sequences intact had belonged to the legendary film collector Raymond Rohauer. When he died several years ago his estate, with all his films fell into limbo. Thank God this print fell into the hands of UCLA! Hopefully this gem will be released on DVD and perhaps seen on TCM. Other celluloid treasures from Mr. Rohauer included several silent Buster Keaton comedies. Maybe these will eventually surface too.
These films were never lost. They were kept in vault storage because they would not meet modnern production code standards. This is a Paramount film. Part of this scene is from the "Parade of the Lovers" mumber in Glorifying etc...the film for the most part is pretty dull. The full film is available ... Paramount still keeps the Nitrate Negative in their Cooled Vault. It does exist. So does "Paramount On Parade" from 1930 w/the Maurice Cehvalier Color ending to Sweepin the Clouds Away"
You seem to know stuff so let me know what is going on with P on Parade? Why is Paramount sitting on this one when lots of us a hoping to live long enough to get a copy. What are the chances that this one will ever be available to the public?
The problem is the fact that nitrocellulose degrades itself during the years of storage. It dryies out and without a minimum of humidity it becomes brittle and brokes in thousands of pieces. And as longer you wait with the transfer into more inert material as more difficult is it to do it.
Gorgeous video! I have to agree, we keep hearing how important these films are, but so many treasures are becoming "lost" due to the fact that they refuse to release them to DVD. While crappy films are getting released two or three times. We get films like "The animal" in "extended edition" but this film sits on a shelf somewhere. Please!
Sometimes release to DVD is not so good. I am going back to my VHS copies of a lot of stuff because when they transfer old films to DVD they monkey around with the sound and it just drives me to distraction.Got Ernst Lubitsch set and The Love Parade was just torture.The loud parts were too loud and the softer tones dropped out entirely. They had filtered the soundtrack to the point of sterility. I have seen a pristine print of this movie years back and it had good balanced sound.
These idiots keep saying we need to save these films because they're important but not important enough to get out to people who want to see them. If they don't put these things out for fear of them not selling then they should be giving them away.
A really beautiful use of early Technicolor. Although it would benefit from a restoration, the colors are very tastefully presented, as well as the staging.
This is the epitome of 1920s class, a true work of art in motion !
As far as I know the picture survives in complete form with all the color sequences intact. It has been restored to its former glory by UCLA. All that is left to do is to release it on DVD.
I hope they do release it some day. The film itself is now in the public domain so I don't know what is keeping it back. They do show it at special theaters once in awhile and you can see it at UCLA for a fee..
The 1920's and early 1930's were quite a liberal and open-minded period.. Films like this became to illegal to view after 1935.... 1920's and early 1930's films had to be censored in the the 1940's and 1950's when they were re-issued... and a lot of things ended up being lost forever because of the puritanical ideas of the 1950's. It's sort of like comparing the liberal late 1960's and 1970's and then what happened in the 1980's when a religious/conservative revival occurred again.
By the way, this film "Glorifying The American Girl" has the word "damn" it is numerous times. On one Richard Dix film from 1929 they had the word "pregnant". Not to mention the numerous films portraying nudity, gays, sex, etc. These films are known as "Pre-Code"
It's really unfortunate that most people are exposed only to the stuff from the 1940's and 1950's and then assume that people in previous generations were as prudish and close-minded as those decades were. Liberal periods come and go.
thank you for showing this ,(short as it it)
jeanniedee1000 17 hours ago
I actually do have a DVD of this, I believe from Alpha, but it isn't too good.
Diosprometheus 4 weeks ago
why is this "rare"? It's been posted all over. The word is a cliché.
35westst 1 month ago
Capivating... Thank you.
ClarasBeau 1 month ago
Am I the only one who saw a fleeting shot of a man's face that looks like newer footage? Between .53 & .54!
FlaviaR 3 months ago 2
And other suspicious parts.
errolfan 4 months ago
All that's on DVD is the black and white public domain 50's TV print that has quite a bit of the Ziegfeld show part extracted due to nudity. I'd love to see the whole thing in its restored form.
calvinnme2 9 months ago
@calvinnme2 I agree.
errolfan 6 months ago
@calvinnme2 I suspect that is the reason why we haven't seen a restored version. Glorifying has its limits. Heaven help us if we see bosoms.
errolfan 4 months ago
My Ziegfeld Follies Girls Tirbute "Glorifying the American Girl" is now on Facebook Please check it out.~! : ) Thanks...
staclynn72 9 months ago
who's the man at 0:53 ??
altobiotero 11 months ago
@altobiotero Johnny Wisemuller, of Tarzan fame.
thedoctor740 10 months ago
@altobiotero Johnny Weissmuller
chem100 10 months ago
@altobiotero, I am so glad I saw your comment - I was hoping I was not the only one who saw it!
FlaviaR 3 months ago
@FlaviaR yeah... and the most incredible thing it was how fast tubers answer me... =0
altobiotero 3 months ago
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100% movie to watch! ive watched this at web movie tube and many other more movies too :)
glenniesamoyoa26 1 year ago
It looks like it's in wide screen.
donnycarrin3d 1 year ago
mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
markstar777 1 year ago
@markstar777 I think you got it.
errolfan 1 year ago
Film restoration is a science that continues to develop. The longer the wait, the better the end result. Metropolis (1927) is the perfect example. The Kino restoration recently had to be redone after the discovery of archival footage. Don't forget the fact that these old films don't have a huge following. I eagerly await the DVD release of GTAG. I'm also willing to be patient.
errolfan 1 year ago
I love old Technicolor. It's more fun than a musket.
MattTheSaiyan 1 year ago
@MattTheSaiyan Beavers are even better (you mis-spelled muskrat).
errolfan 1 year ago
@errolfan No, I meant "musket", an obsolete type of weapon, not "muskrat".
MattTheSaiyan 1 year ago
@MattTheSaiyan That's OK, I know what you meant. Read my last comment again.
errolfan 1 year ago
Did I observe a few exposed breasts and other things? Must be my imagination. Forget about the later sanitized Ziegfeld movies featuring William Powell. This is the real Ziegfeld, and it is truly Glorious.
errolfan 1 year ago 2
Poor Mary Eaton..from the heights of fame on Broadway..to a lost career in the 1930's...ended up a raging alcholic ..and dying in obscurity...
MPL029 1 year ago
mca owns the rights to this print as well as other restored technicolor prints like follow thru and the vagabond king and part color pointed heels but because mary eaton is not a big star mca is too greedy to restore it and put it on dvd they only want to serve the fan of popular classic only we serious fans are a minority target were big but they want quick profit this is based on are corrupt governmnet that is promoting greed
mikemcgee 1 year ago
@mikemcgee Yeah, Universal does own the prints, but the film itself is public domain. Really, I fail to see why ANYONE (be it Universal, Paramount, or even Warners) has yet to do a DVD. MESSAGE TO UNIVERSAL: LICENSE THIS TO CRITERION IF NEED BE!!! Just get this on DVD!
jngr1 1 year ago
Amazing!!!
sunnybrett 1 year ago
As much as it irks many of us, there will be a time when everything old will have been restored and someone will have it all placed very nicely in one compact storage medium. Until then, isn't it nice to hunt and hope. Discovery is half the fun. I think most importantly right now is getting some of our peers to talk of their lives during this early time. In ten or so years it will be an impossibility.
paulj0557 1 year ago
the reason why only a bad print on dvd is because mca is anti two color technicolor and too greedy too put the better print out for the serious fans of classic films they own folow thru but are too greedy too put that out not even vagabond king they want the fast buck only from popular classics and the majority of casual fans of classic films
mikemcgee 2 years ago
There are some good points to this new youtube face, but I can't find the FAVORITE button. I don't want to add it to a playlist. I like my old quicklist button too.
HiWayLady49 2 years ago
@HiWayLady49 Click the "Save to" button. You can select "Favorites" from the drop-down menu.
ObediahFults 2 years ago
Kind of like a "Midsummer's NIght Dream" sequence........
HarborGuy 2 years ago
My feet hurt from just watching that.
curlywolfone 2 years ago 2
Good old Ziegfeld. 1:30 is so absurdly extravagant you can't help but love it.
Gesmehod 2 years ago
this is another world.
futuristfood 2 years ago
If I could only time travel...
If I could only meet Mary Eaton.
I've loved her for over 3 decades.
BadfingerFan 2 years ago
I dont know what this is but why is the camera so
good for something made
back in the 20's?
I love this by the way! :D
Old things like this really intrigue me.
RetroZombieee 2 years ago
Also, in addition to the instability of the Nitro-Cellulose Medium that they used to Print the positive image on, as it got more brittle w/age & lack of care, it also became Chemically unstable, so that it would be flammable & @ times self-ignite, Causing a Vault Fire. Many films in their original condition were lost in this fashion, w/only the Black and White 16mm TV print transfer on safetey film as the survivor of a time gone past. The color Cinema technology for this period is superb
78timothy 2 years ago
They don't make these extravagant pictures anyomre. Too bad. Love this type of show.
LuvIzAhl 2 years ago
Sounds like Mrs. Boquet singing...
hotsickle 2 years ago
Thanks for this rare gem!
amiedetherese 2 years ago
Camp or WHAT!
hectorthewonderdog 2 years ago
Woo hoo! Nudity! This must've been before the censorship! Very nice! Thank you for posting!
chinagrrl 3 years ago
Oh yes, it was actually so risque that the 1950s TV version which is found on many cheap DVDs has these scenes completely removed, as well as some scenes that were in color were just cheaply processed in black and white. Disgusting isn't it?
cartoonfan1920s 2 years ago 2
OMG please tell me that they were wearing body suits because AFAIK nudity was a taboo back in the days!
ConfusedSponge 3 years ago
Mary Eaton is the best! She puts me in a dream state every time!
BadfingerFan 3 years ago
WOW..thankyou thankyou thankyou for posting this!!!ive been trying to find footage of the ziegfield girls for years-this is just amazing.... damn i wish i had the budget to recreate something like this!!
thrillkillkitten 3 years ago
The naked actor is the beautiful and gorgeous Johnny Weissmuller! I love him!
evvv1010 3 years ago
OMG! at EXACTLY 0:44, There is a freaky face!!! Try to pause it!
Mr1920s 3 years ago
Is there a copy of this film, with all of its Technicolor sequences, available on DVD anywhere? If not, Turner needs to get busy!
Mr1920s 3 years ago 3
No, unfortunately not. It had been restored by the UCLA but still awaits general release.
stjn00 3 years ago
I'm still holding out for UCLA to release Follow Through on DVD.
Kinemacolour 3 years ago
@stjn00 On January 16, 2009 UCLA played their 96 minute, restored print of Glorifying the American Girl. Hopefully they'll do it again soon.
Mary Eaton's grave in Glendale is not too far from UCLA. I want to pay respects to Mary--the most beautiful dancing goddess ever!
BadfingerFan 1 year ago
Oh crap don't tell me Turner owns the rights to this :(. There's so many things they still need to release, but I think they take pride in seeing their unreleased stuff rot away in their vaults. Shame.
FranksValli 2 years ago
breathtaking...now see Spanish fiesta records of 20s 30s...in VERTXXGG
vertxxgg 3 years ago
Nice to see lovely and healthy-looking ladies from the past. The naked actors must have been very risque for the time.
ManilaSyndicate 3 years ago
The color sequence in this movie is so breathtaking.I don't know much about this movie, but it is also a Paramount Picture.
Mary Eaton co-starred w/Oscar Shaw in "The Cocanuts" in 1929 also. Was "Glorifying the American Girl" shot in Los Angeles, or Astoria NY? This movie has suffered worse than Paramount on Parade. Ihave a VHS copy from the MCA 50's Black and White 16mm film TV Print. That is what's out there for now.
But the original 35mm Negative does exist in the Paramount Vaults.
78timothy 3 years ago
I had heard that the only complete 35mm print with the color sequences intact had belonged to the legendary film collector Raymond Rohauer. When he died several years ago his estate, with all his films fell into limbo. Thank God this print fell into the hands of UCLA! Hopefully this gem will be released on DVD and perhaps seen on TCM. Other celluloid treasures from Mr. Rohauer included several silent Buster Keaton comedies. Maybe these will eventually surface too.
sunbloater 3 years ago
These films were never lost. They were kept in vault storage because they would not meet modnern production code standards. This is a Paramount film. Part of this scene is from the "Parade of the Lovers" mumber in Glorifying etc...the film for the most part is pretty dull. The full film is available ... Paramount still keeps the Nitrate Negative in their Cooled Vault. It does exist. So does "Paramount On Parade" from 1930 w/the Maurice Cehvalier Color ending to Sweepin the Clouds Away"
78timothy 3 years ago
You seem to know stuff so let me know what is going on with P on Parade? Why is Paramount sitting on this one when lots of us a hoping to live long enough to get a copy. What are the chances that this one will ever be available to the public?
52Sterling 3 years ago
The problem is the fact that nitrocellulose degrades itself during the years of storage. It dryies out and without a minimum of humidity it becomes brittle and brokes in thousands of pieces. And as longer you wait with the transfer into more inert material as more difficult is it to do it.
ichmalealsobinich 2 years ago
Wow. Where did you find this footage? Does UCLA ever offer it's tuff up to be copied for public consumption?
banate 3 years ago
Gorgeous video! I have to agree, we keep hearing how important these films are, but so many treasures are becoming "lost" due to the fact that they refuse to release them to DVD. While crappy films are getting released two or three times. We get films like "The animal" in "extended edition" but this film sits on a shelf somewhere. Please!
Serenadesong 3 years ago
Sometimes release to DVD is not so good. I am going back to my VHS copies of a lot of stuff because when they transfer old films to DVD they monkey around with the sound and it just drives me to distraction.Got Ernst Lubitsch set and The Love Parade was just torture.The loud parts were too loud and the softer tones dropped out entirely. They had filtered the soundtrack to the point of sterility. I have seen a pristine print of this movie years back and it had good balanced sound.
52Sterling 3 years ago
These idiots keep saying we need to save these films because they're important but not important enough to get out to people who want to see them. If they don't put these things out for fear of them not selling then they should be giving them away.
HoorayTV21 3 years ago
WoW..! It's very nice to finally see in color!
LordWham 4 years ago
Great footage.
boyprodegy 4 years ago
Wow... Ive seen the b& white version of this... this is much better!
bobbobato 4 years ago
A really beautiful use of early Technicolor. Although it would benefit from a restoration, the colors are very tastefully presented, as well as the staging.
This is the epitome of 1920s class, a true work of art in motion !
perfectjazz78 4 years ago 2
Johnny Weissmuller ... Adonis (segment "Loveland")
jozefsterkens 4 years ago
at 00;59
jozefsterkens 4 years ago
Moving to see this color clip after 20 years looking at the b/w copy,
Thanks
jozefsterkens 4 years ago
As far as I know the picture survives in complete form with all the color sequences intact. It has been restored to its former glory by UCLA. All that is left to do is to release it on DVD.
stjn00 4 years ago 4
I hope they do release it some day. The film itself is now in the public domain so I don't know what is keeping it back. They do show it at special theaters once in awhile and you can see it at UCLA for a fee..
disco79 4 years ago
Eagerly looking forward to see at last the intact and restored version! Fortunately we can watch fragments on YT - thanks so much for posting!
kspm01 4 years ago
Thanks for posting this..It's breathtaking!
songplugger 4 years ago 2
wow ur not kidding...that is risky!
uru86 4 years ago 2
The 1920's and early 1930's were quite a liberal and open-minded period.. Films like this became to illegal to view after 1935.... 1920's and early 1930's films had to be censored in the the 1940's and 1950's when they were re-issued... and a lot of things ended up being lost forever because of the puritanical ideas of the 1950's. It's sort of like comparing the liberal late 1960's and 1970's and then what happened in the 1980's when a religious/conservative revival occurred again.
disco79 4 years ago
By the way, this film "Glorifying The American Girl" has the word "damn" it is numerous times. On one Richard Dix film from 1929 they had the word "pregnant". Not to mention the numerous films portraying nudity, gays, sex, etc. These films are known as "Pre-Code"
disco79 4 years ago
Quite "daring" for l929 - no censorship yet I guess......
HarborGuy 4 years ago 2
It's really unfortunate that most people are exposed only to the stuff from the 1940's and 1950's and then assume that people in previous generations were as prudish and close-minded as those decades were. Liberal periods come and go.
disco79 4 years ago