Movies not on home video

[Stefan Andersson]

It's A Wise Child (1931), Pre-Code from WB, showing at this year´s Cinecon festival.

"This racy comedy about pregnancy and small-town gossip was banned in some countries upon its release and was a box-office hit for Marion Davies, earning over $1 million in 1931. Unfortunately, it has never been shown on television due to copyright issues. However, recently the rights were untangled, and we are incredibly grateful to Warner Bros. guru George Feltenstein for making a 35MM print available to us!"

For more info about rights issues for the above film, go here:
https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=37555

Re: Les Misérables, Fescourt 1925 and Capellani 1913:
"there are no plans at all to release them on physical media. They may however appear on Pathe's new VOD service in the future."

See post July 21, 2025 here:
https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=36004

Mods: I posted the above in this subforum because there was no New Topic button in the General Film Discussion subforum.

[beamish14]

That is wonderful. I didn’t realize that Feltenstein was able to get WB to provide celluloid materials to screenings. I look forward to following this thread

[Stefan Andersson]

Another rarity from this year´s Cinecon:

"While New York Sleeps (1920) – World Premiere of a New Transfer from Walt Disney Pictures!
Shot in Fox's Manhattan studio with extensive location work around the city, this film offers an unusual three-part structure, with episodes set on Long Island, Times Square, and the East Side, with the same three actors (Estelle Taylor, Harry Southern, and Marc McDermott) playing different roles in each."
https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=37555

[captveg]

It's a Wise Child seems like an ideal future WAC release.

I was thinking about the impermanence of modern films that are bound to streaming entities, without any past on the big screen or any hope of distribution outside their producing corporation. In many ways they mirror the pre-TV era films of the 1920s-1940s that never found a second life via theatrical reissue or television broadcast. So many films made from that era have simply gone unnoticed by time (if they still survive), so whenever one seems to break out it definitely raises my interest.