Restoration of a lost Stetson film

[TheDane]

Buler started this thread in 2011 on the film.

Yup, the article claims that the news made headlines back in 2010

 

[kaosharper1]

So I guess the main news is that its available on DVD now with some other neat films like Hitchcock's first film (which I had also read about earlier) all restored.

 

[TheDane]

So I guess the main news is that its available on DVD now with some other neat films like Hitchcock's first film (which I had also read about earlier) all restored.

I guess so. Anyway, the fact that it's now accessible, makes it even more relevant news - so thanks a lot for sharing

 

[Walt]

On the Preservation web site I found this: http://www.filmpreservation.org/userfiles/image/PDFs/BirthOfAHat_Getman.pdf

It looks like the new film may include some of the same footage that is in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_lZnPn0C0k.

Maybe whomever sees the new video first can compare the two or has Buler or someone already done that?


Cheers.

 

[Matt Crunk]

Making a Stetson (a/k/a Birth of a Hat) - rare silent era industrial film

Just found this while browsing on youtube. Don't know if it's been posted before, and apologies if it has, but I thought more than a few Loungers might find it interesting.

[video=youtube;g_lZnPn0C0k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=g_lZnPn0C0k[/video]

 

[tonyb]

Yup, we've seen this before. But it's still fun to watch again.

On watching it, I'm left thinking that the workers at the Stetson factory back in those days surely did earn their daily bread. And I'm wondering how many of them developed respiratory problems from years of inhaling airborne fur fibers.

It's interesting to see how the processes have (and haven't) changed since then.

 

[buler]

More detail on it here - > StetsonFilm

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[Hatter4]

I saw this film before, I liked it, liked to the part where he used a shackle to curl the brim,

 

[Worf]

That was when men and women WORKED! Hard labor with your hands and your back. And I imagine that in the summer time that factory resembled the outer regions of hell! Not as bad a laboring in the fields, log woods or steel mills, but it ain't exactly squinting at a computer screen in a cubicle either. Wow... thanks.. first time I saw this one.

Worf

 

[gtdean48]

If you ever can tour the Winchester Hat factory, you will get a sense of the humidity & heat throughout the processes.

 

[Walt]

Heads up! I just discovered that on TCM tonight they are showing American Treasures from the New Zealand Film Archive Part one and then in one week part 2 (24 of November, 2013). So hopefully one of these nights we will get to see the Stetson movie. The TCM broadcast info doesn't indicate which movies are shown which nights.

More info at http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2001487/Lost-and-Found-American-Treasures-from-the-New-Zealand-Film-Archive-Part-1/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2001487/Lost-and-Found-American-Treasures-from-the-New-Zealand-Film-Archive-Part-1/
and
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2001488/Lost-and-Found-American-Treasures-from-the-New-Zealand-Film-Archive-Part-2/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2001488/Lost-and-Found-American-Treasures-from-the-New-Zealand-Film-Archive-Part-2/

The DVD is available for purchase as well. You can Google for it.

 

[Shanghailander]

Birth of a Hat

TCM is running a series of "lost" films which were found in New Zealand. They date from 1914 to 1928.

From the TCM website:

Birth of a Hat: The Art and Mystery of making Fur Felt Hats was produced around 1920, and believe or not, this fourteen-minute documentary turns the manufacturing of Stetson headwear into a fascinating spectacle. It's basically a commercial, but its glimpses of American industry and workers are crisply filmed and adroitly presented.


Screens tonight (Saturday) at midnight.

 

[g.durand]

Thanks for the tip. Heading for the Tivo now.

 

[great white]

Says sunday here: http://tcm.tv/this-month/article.ht...s-from-the-New-Zealand-Film-Archive-Part-Two-

Checked TCM, 1:30 AM Sunday, NL time...

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

On at 12am Saturday night here.

 

[Strapped-4-Cache]

Odd. I can't find it in our listings at all. :/

 

[great white]

Must be a difference between TCM USA and TCM Canada I guess....

 

[Zombie_61]

For anyone in the U.S. with DirecTV, check TCM's listing for Sunday, November 24, at 9:00 p.m. and you'll find Lost and Found: American Treasures From the New Zealand Film Archive (Part Two); "Birth of a Hat" is one of the short movies featured therein.

For everyone else, you'll probably find it airing at 12:00 a.m. on Monday, November 25th.

 

[buler]

You can watch a version of it here... BirthofaHat

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[Historyteach24]

Was it any good?