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I am very pleased to announce the approval of my first fanedit by the Academy:
Fanedit film name: Dracula Restored
Original film name: Dracula (1931)
Original running time: 01:14:26
Fanedit running time: 01:13:56 (Browning elements only)/01:14:38 (Browning and Melford elements)
Brief synopsis: After viewing an initial cut of director Tod Browning's Dracula in late 1930, Universal Pictures president Carl Laemmle, Sr complained that the film gave him the "heebie-jeebies" and ordered that it be re-edited. Several minutes of film were cut and a number of scenes were rearranged, resulting in numerous continuity errors and giving the third act a glacial pace. Although the missing footage remains lost, this edit restores the continuity established in the original shooting script (and Melford's simultaneously shot Spanish-language version of Drácula) eliminating most of the continuity errors and quickening the film's pace in the third act.
Two versions of my fanedit are available. One using film elements taken solely from the release version of Browning's film (the "purist" edition), and a second incorporating additional cut scenes and alternate footage taken from the Spanish-language version of the film directed by George Melford and shot on Browning's sets at night.
Change list: The shooting script for Dracula is broken up into seven parts, labeled A through H, with each part broken down by scene number, such as A-1, A-2, B-1, B-2, etc. This table compares the continuity of the release version of the film, Melford's Spanish-language version, and my fanedit. Under each sequence is the range of scene numbers covered, and the begin and end time in the respective versions. In general, I've ignored scenes that were omitted from the shooting script for both the release version of the film and in Melford's version, though I've included a note where I felt it necessary. Where a number of scenes run consecutively in a particular sequence, I've included both a beginning and ending scene for clarity.
I apologize for the poor quality of the screencaps. As we're unable to post using html, the table has been converted to a jpg. The table is a bit long, so I'll break it up into two posts. Here's the first:
Fanedit film name: Dracula Restored
Original film name: Dracula (1931)
Original running time: 01:14:26
Fanedit running time: 01:13:56 (Browning elements only)/01:14:38 (Browning and Melford elements)
Brief synopsis: After viewing an initial cut of director Tod Browning's Dracula in late 1930, Universal Pictures president Carl Laemmle, Sr complained that the film gave him the "heebie-jeebies" and ordered that it be re-edited. Several minutes of film were cut and a number of scenes were rearranged, resulting in numerous continuity errors and giving the third act a glacial pace. Although the missing footage remains lost, this edit restores the continuity established in the original shooting script (and Melford's simultaneously shot Spanish-language version of Drácula) eliminating most of the continuity errors and quickening the film's pace in the third act.
Two versions of my fanedit are available. One using film elements taken solely from the release version of Browning's film (the "purist" edition), and a second incorporating additional cut scenes and alternate footage taken from the Spanish-language version of the film directed by George Melford and shot on Browning's sets at night.
Change list: The shooting script for Dracula is broken up into seven parts, labeled A through H, with each part broken down by scene number, such as A-1, A-2, B-1, B-2, etc. This table compares the continuity of the release version of the film, Melford's Spanish-language version, and my fanedit. Under each sequence is the range of scene numbers covered, and the begin and end time in the respective versions. In general, I've ignored scenes that were omitted from the shooting script for both the release version of the film and in Melford's version, though I've included a note where I felt it necessary. Where a number of scenes run consecutively in a particular sequence, I've included both a beginning and ending scene for clarity.
I apologize for the poor quality of the screencaps. As we're unable to post using html, the table has been converted to a jpg. The table is a bit long, so I'll break it up into two posts. Here's the first: