Madame Butterfly 1915 Mary Pickford Part I lost silent film

Mary Pickford played Cho-Cho in the earlier production and irked director Sydney Olcott by refusing to act oriental. Olcott was so upset that he walked off the set, but Pickford was Americas Sweetheart and nobody told her what to do; she simply took over directing duties until Olcott returned. The silent Madame Butterfly is a rare and fascinating look at Japan through western eyes during the early years of Hollywood. Look for actors with exceedingly large noses in key Japanese roles.

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[singmohli]

Hi, i am doing a classical concert and would like to screen this on a projector as backdrop. is it possible to get the original video?

[hollywoodjapanfile]

@singmohli Don't have a DVD but I can upload the entire video and you can download it to your computer (rather than having it split up into 8 parts).

[hollywoodjapanfile]

@singmohli Don't have a DVD but I can upload the entire video and you can download it to your computer (rather than having it split up into 8 parts). 

[hollywoodjapanfile]

@singmohli I'll upload the entire video on YouTube in its entirety. Then you can download it without having to edit all 6 parts together.

[westeggz]

How is this considered lost if it's shown here...or do you mean "rare?"

[hollywoodjapanfile]

I'm not 100% sure but I think it was believed to be lost until the single remaining print was found in the Library of Congress. This is the transfer to video from that print, which is why you see the time code. Someone gave it to me; I have absolutely no idea how he got it. I searched using Google and there are no other copies available. The person who gave it to me described it as a "glass copy". Don't know what that means.

[singmohli]

@hollywoodjapanfile thank you very much for replying. Do you have any idea if there's any copyrights issues if i were to project this in a public concert?

Will be great if you could send me the whole video rather than putting it up on youtube (I'm not sure how to extract the file from youtube) thank you again!

[westeggz]

OK--thanks for your reply!

[evil1by1]

@westeggz this film is indeed lost. This is only a surviving fragment. think of it like a missing person- finding a foot isn't the same as finding the person, they would still be lost if that is all you found. A lost film is simply a film no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives.

[sharpieebitch]

@hollywoodjapanfile

Did you steal this from the library of congress? I'm telling Obama

[magyarwho]

Thank you for posting this. I have been searching for old Mary Pickford movies and haven't found any til now.