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Heat of the summer 1961

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Offline Agitabatur

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Heat of the summer 1961
« on: March 27, 2019, 09:37:53 PM »
Hello guys,
Is there anybody there that knows where I can find the catfight scene in this movie? Or instead, where I can buy or get the whole movie? Seems disappeared from the web
Thanks!

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Re: Heat of the summer 1961
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2019, 11:10:31 PM »
Just found a couple of lobby cards and movie poster.  Better luck to someone else....

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How about 2 girls sparring from Racket Girls (1951)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da0P2rCfddk

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Re: Heat of the summer 1961
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2019, 11:38:47 PM »
It's from 1959, and I've tried various search terms in various languages. My biggest issue is, that YouTube wasn't the only site where the clip was uploaded, there used to be a forum from where, years ago, I used to download clips and thus how I had a copy that was artificially lightened.

Yet, if you look at the posters, you see that the fight at the end of the film takes place during the day, not at night. That is to say even if it were reuploaded again, the end isn't very visible. The fact of the matter is that this movie's print to this day as not carried over to VHS or DVD/Blu-ray. The previously available clip comes from a VHS copy of a German private TV channel airing.

Here's where a piece of film history buff comes in: BBC has a running program for people who have back then recorded their shows since in the '80s to spare on costs, a lot of it was taped over. In a similar fashion, these new private channels paid for a VHS transfer from a print they bought from a distributor, and after the last time they aired the movie, the VHS tape was used to record something else.

There's some good news... the YouTube channel Newsbefunny could publish '70-'80-'90s era bloopers because in the process of digitization, old tapes are found in nigh forgotten warehouses, so there's a possibility the VHS from which the clip was uploaded still exists.
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Re: Heat of the summer 1961
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2019, 03:55:01 PM »
THere is a version on one of the runboard sites called catfight collectors.

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Re: Heat of the summer 1961
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2019, 04:26:31 PM »
THere is a version on one of the runboard sites called catfight collectors.

Here's hoping they accept my application as it's members only
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Re: Heat of the summer 1961
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2019, 07:10:39 PM »
It's either a similar copy or the same I had years ago. There's a clear need for restoration with this print since just like Rembrandt's Night Watch turning out to be an actual misnomer as it actually depicts a day scene, this copy too has faded so much that only the movements of the women reveal it doesn't take place during the night, since they clearly can see each other.

6 years ago there was a poll on a French website to put this movie out on DVD and about 7 people voted for it. This movie is like a lien stamp from a deserted colony, the collectors hold its value ;)
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Re: Heat of the summer 1961
« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2019, 12:20:54 PM »