Classic Archive "outtakes" event returns

On Saturday August 9 2008, UCLA Preservation Officer Robert Gitt hosted an encore presentation of one of the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s most popular events—a program of almost three hours of discarded footage from a Hollywood classic.

Actor Charles Laughton’s one and only film as a director, “The Night of the Hunter” (1955), is the only Golden Age classic for which the original rushes and trims survive. Viewing the rushes provides an insightful study of the filmmaking process because Laughton liked to keep the camera running between takes. We hear his off-screen voice directing and motivating the performances of Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce and other actors.

This once (or twice) in a lifetime experience was the subject of an absorbing August 8 piece in the “Los Angeles Times,” a timeless tribute to Gitt’s ctaftsmanship..

Read the whole story on the Los Angeles Times.

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Keywords

"robert gitt" "charles laughton" "night of the hunter" 

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