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

Katie Couric, David Janssen & Herb Bridges view/discuss the recently discovered GWTW home video footage. The footage shows Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard, Victor Fleming and various extras behind the scenes during the filming of the 1939 classic.

For more information on Vivien Leigh & Gone with the Wind, please visit VIVIEN-LEIGH.COM.

Video supplied by Mark Mayes.

From Brucemore.org: "The subject of this attention was a three-minute segment of footage taken by Howard Hall in 1939. Howard was visiting friends and checking on investments in California when he was invited to visit the Busch Garden set of Gone With the Wind. Howard had access to the set through his friend Paul Robinson, whose wife Ann was the stand-in for Olivia de Havilland. Through that connection, he had remarkable access to the otherwise closed set of the most popular American film ever made. Fortuitously, he brought his movie camera.

The quality of the images is extraordinary. Howard documents the filming of one of the opening scenes of the movie -- the barbecue at Twelve Oaks. He focuses on Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh sitting by their trailers in full costume, smoking and waiting for their scenes. He also shows stand-ins setting up a shot for Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland. Some scenes reveal hundreds of extras in antebellum costumes, standing in the California sun, waiting for the cameras to roll.

Howard's filming on the set of Gone with the Wind was not an isolated instance of his access to Hollywood sets. Letters written to Margaret in 1937 describe a few of his previous encounters with some of the biggest actors of the era."

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[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!

[kmichelle001]

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

[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!

[coco22mototo]

@thenightscribe 70 years actually

[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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[stephy7475]

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

[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.

[zachedwards92]

& its in color. eerie