| LC control no. | n 2019025238 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Uniform title heading | Foolish wives (Motion picture) |
| Other standard no. | 10.5240/D5C2-6811-CA17-0D46-B889-W |
| Form of work | Motion pictures |
| Beginning date | 1922 |
| Place of origin | United States |
| Special note | Footage, running time and reel count vary in sources. |
| Found in | Foolish wives, 1972: title frame (Foolish wives) Wikipedia WWW site, viewed May 3, 2019 Foolish wives (1922 American erotic silent drama film produced and distributed by Universal under their Super-Jewel banner; written and directed by Erich von Stroheim; running times: original cut, 384 minutes; original release, 117 minutes; restored (reconstructed), 142 minutes) Eagan, D. America's film legacy, 2010: p. 78-79 (Foolish wives, Universal, 1922; after months of editing, Stroheim's film was 30 reels long, running over 6 hours; editor Arthur Ripley reduced the running time by half. Censors asked for more. By the time of general release, Foolish wives was down to 10 reels. Shorter versions came out later) Silent Era WWW site, viewed May 3, 2019 Foolish wives (von Stroheim shot 320 reels of negative, from July 1920 through June 1921; the first cut ran to 32 reels; Universal had it cut to 16 reels in December 1921; premiered in New York at 14 reels in January 1922. For general release, it was trimmed to ten reels; rereleased in 1928 at seven reels with a synchronized music track; this version has survived. Also surviving is a seven-reel Italian print, in which more of the original continuity survived but many of the shots had been shortened, some to a length of only four or five frames, with alternate takes from those used in the domestic (U.S.) version. On behalf of the American Film Institute in the early 1970s, professor Arthur Lenning utilized the surviving footage to attempt to reconstruct an approximation of the general release version of 1922. He also used Universal's original editing continuities and surviving censorship records; the resulting reconstruction doesn't accurately represent Stroheim's intended version but the included footage is all we have left of some portions of Foolish Wives) |
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