Gone with the Wind & Vivien Leigh home video footage discovered!

[classicliz72]

AMAZING!!!

[Charmedfan2010]

I can't believe that woman can't tell that it's just a stand in... it really does not look all that much like Olivia. But this is really cool! I wish there was more stuff like this...

[sandyw239]

absolutely UNBELIEVABLE! super cool!

[DameHaha2011]

Are there more GWTW home movies anywhere? This can't be all there is can it? It's great :)

[BibiiiMaudieaa864]

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[zachedwards92]

& its in color. eerie

[sowkguy]

Where can we see the whole video or perhaps buy it? This is amazing. 

[TheGlassbooks]

God the newslady is so dumb, constantly questioning whether that relaly is Olivia De Havilland's stand in. COURSE IT IS!!

[ABCDQT]

Truly fun watching that Old Wind Bag, and self-proclamed "GWTW Expert", Herb Bridges falling all over himself and tripping on his own ignorance and mis-information!. The name of deHavilland's double was Mozelle Miller and the name of Leslie Howard's double (seen walking with Miller) was Arthur Tovey.

[beckylink]

I am shocked at how little Katie Couric did in the way of homework. Besides the fact that she must have never even SEEN GWTW, if she could think the stand-in was Olivia! A pretty girl but of course not the striking beauty that was and is Olivia D.

[MissGoldenDreams13]

@Dimcle: Exactly! Any film buff worth two cents could tell that the stand-in is certainly not Olivia DeHavilland. At least in the face, the two women don't look very much alike- and not to diss the stand-in, but she wasn't nearly as pretty as Olivia.

[VALMARIESASK]

and with those southern accents 2

[cushtichavi]

How can Katie Couric think that stand in is Olivia de Haviland? She needs glasses more than i do.

[nickledimepenny]

This is just amazing.  Wow, In colors?!

[nickledimepenny]

This is just amazing!

[plantationmuscleboy]

if you span the footage in pause n' motion, you'll see that there were tons more African Americans in servant, groom and maid characters than appeared in the movie (2:34 for example) and you'll see the long tables that aren't seen at all in the final film cut. Too bad... with all of this activity on the lawn, they wasted the opportunity to really illustrate a plantation barbecue from the outside view.

[deenagal1984]

this is kinda weird seeing something really candid from this movie or that era of film. even the "behind the scenes" pictures from those movies look staged but this really looks like something that would happen on a set now...PARODY TIME!

[16reynoso]

awesome I love GWTW 

[JaymoLACa]

The brilliance of this footage is almost ruined by katie's presence.

[ticket88]

Katie Couric is such an idiot.

[schs1977]

@ticket88 - Isn't it funny she as the "savior" for the CBS evening news. Now the ratings are even lower than when she tok over. Katie Couric - an idiot & worthless!!!!

[katie8753]

That's Katie Couric. She mispronounced the name as "Olivia de Havi-Land"

[glassbooks]

That woman is dumb. Even I can see when it is Olivia De Havilland and when its her stand in!!

[Dimcle]

@glassbooks And then have the nerve to ask a GWTW expert "if he's sure"! And then to ask the other guy if the expert is right! Wow, I guess she's not an old movie buff - we KNOW this stuff. LOL

[RichKnight2010]

DeHavilland.

Not DEE-havil-AND.

Katie Couric is unworthy of providing commentary for this.

[AfterTheWind]

This is outstanding! I love it! But, how dare she question those men if that was Olivia or not. They would ought to know!

[leosgreens]

A lot of the stars back then had lookalike stand-ins back then, Katie. This is too awesome. I wish they would find more footage like this!

[daltonagre]

I live in Brazil.

[rodana12]

I purchased one of the 70th annv.DVD's of GWTW and was amazed at how it has been cleaned up using current technology.

[LindzLu428]

Wow. Thanks for posting this! It amazes me what good condition the film is in.

[signorgelato]

Zeekwolfe, below, is it possible that you are Bush's mother, my ,my, you are even more loyal than his dog, Barney. Do you think of him all day> I'm Sarah Palin's poppy, so I know exactly how you feel!!

[zeekwolfe]

Hmm. I visited your profile. Your tastes don't exactly run to Mozart or Puccini. I was hoping the "Three Little Pigs" you selected as a favorite came from the Walt Disney film "Make Mine Music" (1947.

You know, "...who's afraid of the big bad wolf, big bad wolf, big bad wolf, etc. etc. Instead you chose some hill billy singer.from yesteryear and a song quickly forgotten.

[ArmidaRobles]

Come see this fabulous movie at The Retro Dome in San Jose, CA. this weekend on the BIG screen.

[paulyname]

thank you for this!

[OohcoolProductions]

What book are you reading?

Gone With the Wind is an amazing film. It really is no wonder it lasted so long.

[lilmizpinkbubblegum]

@TheJde88

Omigod, WATCH IT! Haha, intense But this movie is my favourite movie ever! It's amazing. The chemistry of the actors, the detail of the shots, the beautiful costumes, and gorgeous music. Just watch it.

And the book is also one of my favourite books so enjoy that :)

[zeekwolfe]

Lord, I'm ready to be called home. I actually saw a Katie Couric presentation that didn't blame George W. Bush for anything. Of course, Bush was not alive when GWTW was made. Give her another five minutes and she'd be blaming Bush senior for the deception of using an Olivia de Havilland standin or Vivien Leigh smoking a cigarette.

[heavenlycreature666]

@zeekwolfe the only reason katie couric needs to blame people like george bush for the worlds problems, and people like us wouldn't have to be out there yelling and complaining if people like you would stop standing in the way of progress.

[zeekwolfe]

Omigosh, your'e right. Millions of rascals like me need to step aside. Decendents of Vladimir Illich Lenin or Iosep Vissarionovich Dugashvilli (aka Joseph Stalin) can not legally ascend the US presidential throne, so it's up to Katie Couric and Comrade Obama to liquidate people like me who stand in the way of progress. Oh Lord, thank you for Obama and his progressive 20 trillion dollar debt to our grandchildren. I've seen the light. Now, about Barry's birth certificate.......

[heavenlycreature666]

to say nothing of the money that the previous president spent on a useless war that could have been avoided had we kept our heads and not responded to violence with violence.

[zeekwolfe]

Violence, I'm sorry to say, is the only coin that Muslims understand. Never trust or turn your back on a modern day Muslim. If our Jewish friends in the 1930's had responded with violence against the Nazis, the Holocaust would not have happened. Stalin's KGB would have had fewer victims if their late-night knocks on the door had been met with bullets. Pelosi and Reid want to take our guns away. Heavenlycreature666, don't be what Lenin called 'a useful fool.'

[lollipopfop]

@heavenlycreature666 If you mean stand in the way of Obama spending more money then any other president ever, and working to redistribute the wealth from the people who worked for it to the people who didn't, and socialized healthcare that will give people overworked doctors who are about as motivated and capable as a public school teachers....then yes, I hope all people stand in the way of that kind of progress.

[4everGWTW]

*_*

[tastaturenpirat]

it looks like a cell phone video

[lou1606]

is it carole lombard next to clark gable at 1:46 and 4:48?

[Twiggy90Couture]

yep..magical huh? :)

[routedeparis]

katie couric is a moron.

[Muggadoogy]

I'm a 64 year old film fan set to watch the new Blu Ray of GWTW. Also a photographer & former color printer. Q: how did the man have color back then? Kodachrome film came out in 1935. They had 8mm by 1936, I bet this clip was 16mm. Hard to tell here. When I used Super 8mm in the 70's it cost me a dollar per minute. Technicolor was a very different process. Accurate, durable-- probably cheaper. Kodak stopped making Kodachrome film: 2009. I sure hope to see this clip in blu ray.

[kmichelle001]

Katie, it's her stand in ok? Why do journalists have to think they know everything. Hey, when was this Today show aired

[Twiggy90Couture]

I am asuming it was in 1999 since they said GWTW turned 60 that year and GWTW is 71 years old (1939)

[kimmypett]

This is really stunning. The quality is unbelievable. Why doesn't more of this type of footage exist if the technology was available? Yet so many "home movies" are such poor quality right up until video. It's like looking in a time machine.

[beachnikk]

Fascinating to watch and all the more so because it was color in 1939 which was just about the time it was introduced. I also was impressed that this was a home movie so the camera must have been a very good one even by those standards and there's no fast panning or jittering shake which allot of home movies have.

[AnniPink5]

That's amazing! It makes me feel as if I'm right there, seeing them in real life. And this isn't even high definition! :)

[PutrescentSoul]

OMG!

[thenightscribe]

This is just too cool. I'm a GWTW-ophile and absolutely tickled to see this. I just kept watching it thinking "this was SIXTY YEARS AGO!" Color me impressed. Thank you for sharing this!

[bn279626]

uh, over 70 years actually.

[Twiggy90Couture]

uh, but since the interview takes place in 1999 it was actually 60 years ago not 70, ugh actually!

[chislehurstbat]

@thenightscribe by the time you were writing this, it was 70 years ago (1939), no?

[JudgeJulieLit]

@thenightscribe As the film GWTW was released in 1939, in 2010 when you wrote "This was SIXTY YEARS AGO!" it was even longer, 71 years, now 72. Yet seems footage from last year.  Ironically, this scene of naively leisurely prewar life depicts not just the antebellum South before the Civil War, but too captures the eve (/afternoon) before WW2: just three years after this footage, Clark Gable's bride Carole Lombard (here seated next to him?) and costar Leslie Howard would die in plane downs.

[stephy7475]

@JudgeJulieLit when was the film recorded,how long did it take to be taped?

[coco22mototo]

@thenightscribe 70 years actually

[horndiapason]

VERY interesting!

[justXaXdreamer]

when did this broadcast come out? i was just curious because this is really interesting, I am such a GWTW girl! :)

[Koishii57]

me too! i love gwtw! and this footage is just absolutely cool

[dacatholicbandorgan]

Probably the 1990's

[OohcoolProductions]

I love listening to that man's accent.

[bch3sbaml]

incredible that this flim matterial has lasted.

[sotatophsam]

Best Movie EVER!

[Lachausis]

I kind of have sympathy for American South.

[Prilpril21]

how did he get a colored picture?

[funnyguy52]

This is excellant footage. Herb Bridges is THE GWTW expert. Just for the record, NO outakes from the film exist, all unused film stock was destroyed. What a shame!!

[ben7368]

I wish there were GWTW outtakes & other extras like they make for DVD's nowadays. I would love to see how the cast got along on set & see what they would say about each other.

[jayfey77]

well vivian leigh hated clark gable she though he was pompous and obnoxious and she hated kissing him cause of his false teeth and mustache.

[ben7368]

Yeah I heard that, but then I also heard that they got on fine and they liked each other so hard to know which is true..

[siadragonfly3]

& his halitosis..!:)

[cammi316]

I also heard that it was mostly his cigar breath. Or at least hated kissing him, didn't know they hated each other.

[GoldenEraa]

she didnt hate him she just thought he had bad breath theres a different they got on well and after Leigh divorce from olivier she said she thought clark gable "Absoloutley gorgous" so i really think you need to brush up on your film history.

[OurStarChristineDaae]

Yes, Viv and Clark were actually very good friends off set and thereafter.

[Liz86000]

So glad to hear that! :)

[Liz86000]

I think it's just because he ate smelly things just before a kissing scene to tease her.

[glassbooks]

Yeah I agree. I've often wished I could have seen bloopers from GWTW like you get on DVD's sometimes today. Would have been great! The only time I've seen a vintage blooper was ages ago on a tv programme about Bette Davis I think it was and she was swearing like a trooper when she fluffed her lines! How great to have seen Vivien and Clark mess their lines up!

[TheGlassbooks]

@ben7368 Yeah, I'd love to see bloopers too.

[MizzSeastrunk]

I agree with vam1018. Sunglasses were actually "invented" in the thirteenth century. Hard to believe, but it's true. Google it up if you don't believe me. But this is beyond cool. I've loved GWTW since childhood! All I gotta say about this is AW MAN!!!! LOL!!!!

[vam1018]

They did have sunglasses, of a sort, during the Civil War.

Do your research, Katie!

[Elecksia]

the guy shooting the film only shot vivien from behind i guess he was to shy to go up to the leading ladies just shot the stand in

golly that womans dumb does she never give up !?the stand in doesnt have the same body or face and doesnt she know shes talking to an expert how rude!

[dhom100]

yeah that's clearly not olivia de havilland. I wish he got closer shot of vivien leigh.

[belendeliz]

Katie Couric is so dumb! she had never seen what olivia de havilland looks like!

[markincapemay]

Taking Katie's side here, just a bit - I also thought for a moment the stand-in was Miss deHavilland, based on the familiar costume in the scene and the film's fuzziness. As for the sunglasses, just how do you think she could have researched that? Cut her a break...having said that, there have been times while watching the CBS Evening News that I have cringed over a mispronounciation or an incorrectly inflected phrase which reveals that Katie does not understand the story she is reporting.

[ajwa61]

what a priceless treasure...this has got to be one of the most precious pieces of "real" footage there is. thanx a lot 4 sharing.

[87NiCc87]

this is sooo cool

[garrettsambo7]

This is as awesome as the Hitler home videos.

[Xprettykitty6990X]

interesting:)

[MoscowSsky]

Awesome Awesome Awesome.

[swampzoid]

Awesome Awesome Awesome.

[26mae1987]

it's that carole lombard in the part with clar and vivien??

[UofLCardFan08]

Yes.

[rkiry]

@26mae1987 yes, that's Carole sitting next to Gable in front of the trailer,.

[grindesel]

un grand merci pour cette superbe video très émouvante.

J adore ce film ainsi que le livre;

Vivien est Scarlett !

Effectivement, ce n est pas olivia de haviland qu on voit assise sur l herbe

[metromoviestar]

Katie Couric=IDIOT.

[moonflower0924]

omg! look at vivling!!!

[scarlettrosegarden]

Gee Katie... you can't tell that's not Olivia!? Hmm, it doesn't look like her, and the dress is different from the gown Melanie really wears...

And when Olivia was shown she said nothing,lol!

This is AWESOME.

The color is amazing. Thanks for sharing!

[Hadewijch]

IT's been SEVENTY years, Katie - SEVENTY, not "sixty" (as she said not once but twice, and nobody corrected her).

Great find!

[Mernerwastaken]

i think it was sixty years when she was talking about it.. this is old, Katie Couric isnt even on the today show anymore and her hair cut is a little dated

[QUEENSTINA]

Very Cool! Thank you for sharing!!!

[td2gether4ever]

It is amazing that this home movie was in color since color was just starting to hit the big screen then. Awesome to see Gable and Leigh relaxing, smoking away.

[chislehurstbat]

"is this her stand in"? Sigh, how often can you ask the same question. Laugh.

[bookhead92]

LOL! Leslie's wearing a Sunglasses!

Katie said it twice! LOL!

[aptharsia]

Katie must not be a big GwTW fan, you could tell that wasn't Olivia!

[bookhead92]

That's her stand-in.

[bookhead92]

She even said it Twice! "That's her Stand-in??"

[SHRINA17]

You're so right...imagine saying to someone who knows Olivia de Haviland well and knows this piece of film so well...."are you SURE that's not Olivia de Haviland??" Katie, Katie, Katie...

[rockgor]

How many millions do they pay Katie?

Tx 4 posting. Almost as good as a time machine.

[aptharsia]

I know, that is what I was saying.....

[gazaguy]

BRILLIANT! Wow, what a find! I had never seen (or heard) of this footage. Thank you SO MUCH for posting it!

[sassyx3samm]

omg..thank u so so so much for posting this =]

[rachel7036]

Thanks very much for this! This is my favorite movie!

[joyr36]

Thank you for posting! This is so interesting. I love Gone With the Wind. A true classic!

[daydreamerjane]

Thank you very much. That's REALLY interesting, I mean seeing the stars out of character, and in COLOUR, during the production is truly priceless, especially since it's THIS film.

[poeticjustice1234]

Wow!!! Thanks for posting this incredible video, a real treat for us GWTW lovers.

[reigelro]

Oh My God!!! Incredible ... This Viv's image, sitting of backs. Wonderful. Thank you, thank you very much for this Video, from Argentina. Roxana