SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON (Silent home version, 1940) Part One

[ImDrFreak]

This is very interesting. My mother is the actress who played "Francis" in the movie ("Baby Bobby Quillan" - real name Barbara) and while we have a copy on 35mm reel, unfortunately nearly destroyed through time and improper storage. I wasn't even aware that there was an edited silent version. Thanks for posting this.

[GuildfordGhost]

@ImDrFreak Hello. I've been finding people who are in clips or are related to them quite a lot on this site over the last year. Honoured and thrilled you found this. If you want to PM me, this version is the more obscure 9.5mm cut and I'd be happy to sell it on to you for a sensible price (though the shipping to the US from the UK would be quite high).

[lonewulf44]

Interesting. I didn't know that in 1940 they even made movie versions for 'home viewing'. Do you know if you can still find the original 40 sound version by RKO? That's the one I would like to see as well. Thanks for posting, interesting bit.

[GuildfordGhost]

@lonewulf44 Hello! I went Googling this when I first had it converted as I had no idea of the year and I'm fairly sure there were quite a few cheap modern DVDs of the 1940 one available on eBay.