Happy 100th birthday to the great Edward D. Wood Jr!
CLEOPATRA FOLLIES aka FLAME OF ISLAM was the first of five burlesque shorts presented in “Gorgeous Multi-Color” anaglyphic 3-D by Oakland and San Francisco burlesque theater magnate, Harry A. Farros. CLEOPATRA FOLLIES starred popular dancers Paula French and Shirley Hayes, aka The PussyCat Girl.
Newly discovered data has confirmed that while working with George Weiss at Screen Classics, Edward D. Wood Jr wrote the script for this 3-D film under the title FLAME OF ISLAM. There are no production credits listed on-screen, but Wood lists it in a resume that he circulated around that time.
In true Ed Wood fashion, the "writer" credit is somewhat padded as it amounts to three brief voiceover introductions to the dance segments. Nevertheless, it is a credit and that's what matters most on the resume of an aspiring filmmaker.
Photographed in Los Angeles circa May 1953, the title was changed just before release on August 8, 1953. The short was popular and usually played at drive-ins with bookings found as late as September 1955.
I discovered the original left/right 35mm elements for CLEOPATRA FOLLIES at the shuttered Movielab in Hollywood circa 1985. Despite my best efforts, I was not able to acquire the material and it’s likely they were junked with other orphaned film elements.
Fortunately, 3-D Film Archive has recently acquired a faded but pristine 35mm anaglyphic print and we will be restoring this rare Edward D. Wood film. Thanks to advanced digital techniques developed by 3DFA Technical Director Greg Kintz, we can now dig deep into the emulsion and extract the original left/right data on this faded anaglyphic print. In short, thanks to our complex and highly specialized digital arsenal, it will truly look better now than it did in 1953.
Watch for the new restoration of CLEOPATRA FOLLIES on our upcoming 3-D Blu-ray release of DOMO ARIGATO from BayView Entertainment! bayviewentertainment.com
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CLEOPATRA FOLLIES aka FLAME OF ISLAM was the first of five burlesque shorts presented in “Gorgeous Multi-Color” anaglyphic 3-D by Oakland and San Francisco burlesque theater magnate, Harry A. Farros. CLEOPATRA FOLLIES starred popular dancers Paula French and Shirley Hayes, aka The PussyCat Girl.
Newly discovered data has confirmed that while working with George Weiss at Screen Classics, Edward D. Wood Jr wrote the script for this 3-D film under the title FLAME OF ISLAM. There are no production credits listed on-screen, but Wood lists it in a resume that he circulated around that time.
In true Ed Wood fashion, the "writer" credit is somewhat padded as it amounts to three brief voiceover introductions to the dance segments. Nevertheless, it is a credit and that's what matters most on the resume of an aspiring filmmaker.
Photographed in Los Angeles circa May 1953, the title was changed just before release on August 8, 1953. The short was popular and usually played at drive-ins with bookings found as late as September 1955.
I discovered the original left/right 35mm elements for CLEOPATRA FOLLIES at the shuttered Movielab in Hollywood circa 1985. Despite my best efforts, I was not able to acquire the material and it’s likely they were junked with other orphaned film elements.
Fortunately, 3-D Film Archive has recently acquired a faded but pristine 35mm anaglyphic print and we will be restoring this rare Edward D. Wood film. Thanks to advanced digital techniques developed by 3DFA Technical Director Greg Kintz, we can now dig deep into the emulsion and extract the original left/right data on this faded anaglyphic print. In short, thanks to our complex and highly specialized digital arsenal, it will truly look better now than it did in 1953.
Watch for the new restoration of CLEOPATRA FOLLIES on our upcoming 3-D Blu-ray release of DOMO ARIGATO from BayView Entertainment! bayviewentertainment.com
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