I released two Viola Dana films: THE COSSACK WHIP and THE INNOCENCE OF RUTH. Both are available. Also two Shirley Mason films: THE APPLE TREE GIRL and one I'm launching in January.
Thank you for uploading this. It's interesting to hear about how different the industry used to be, but in some ways it's still very similar today too.
Thanks so much, I've wanted to see this for years. Viola was so wonderful in the 'Hollywood Pioneers' series, speaking so beautifully and interestingly. I wish all her interview for that , in full, could be released, along with the other people's from that stunning series. I know she died in 1987, do you know when her interview here was filmed please?
I’m glad I got to share this with you! I believe the release for this was in 1986. Yes she was so proper and eloquent in that documentary, it’s too bad all the cuts and out-takes of these actors and actresses are gone forever.
@@jaredcravens2658 Hi again, thanks for replying. The wonderful series, Hollywood The Pioneers, about the silent era, was released in 1980 after about 4 years of interviews, including of course with Viola. (Episodes are here on RUclips, if you haven't watched them all please do, they're fantastic, with Hazards of the Game, about stunts, being the best I think.) The series was going to be released on DVD but it was halted at the last minute, it was said because of copyright issues regarding many of the film clips which accompanied the marvellous reminiscences. The series was made by the great Brownlow and Gill, who also made ones on Chaplin, Keaton and others. Naturally, the interviews with those amazing silent film people were edited - the book of the series says that - but I bet the full versions of them do exist somewhere, and could be released - if only! Brownlow and Gill, such brilliantly dedicated film historians, wouldn't have disposed of interview clips they couldn't use in the series.
Viola Dana mentioned working in Rip Van Winkle with "Thomas Jefferson". Perhaps she meant actor Joseph Jefferson, whose signature role was Rip. Jefferson died in 1905, so if he was the actor Dana really meant it would've been pretty early in her career and quite late in his.
@@dennman6There were two Joseph Jeffersons who did Rip Van Winkle, the father who wrote an amazing autobiography who commissioned the play, and his son. Both made film excerpts of it, and both survive today.
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I've seen her in a number of interviews and I really like her a lot. She was 89 at the time of this filming (1986).
Amazing there’s more of this it’s sad she didn’t make more movies
I released two Viola Dana films: THE COSSACK WHIP and THE INNOCENCE OF RUTH. Both are available. Also two Shirley Mason films: THE APPLE TREE GIRL and one I'm launching in January.
Thank you for uploading this. It's interesting to hear about how different the industry used to be, but in some ways it's still very similar today too.
thanks for uploading.
I love that she's wearing her old clothes
Sad that the sound isn't synchronized better. Rather distracting. But I'm glad that this provided more information than what was available otherwise.
Thanks so much, I've wanted to see this for years.
Viola was so wonderful in the 'Hollywood Pioneers' series, speaking so beautifully and interestingly.
I wish all her interview for that , in full, could be released, along with the other people's from that stunning series.
I know she died in 1987, do you know when her interview here was filmed please?
I’m glad I got to share this with you! I believe the release for this was in 1986. Yes she was so proper and eloquent in that documentary, it’s too bad all the cuts and out-takes of these actors and actresses are gone forever.
@@jaredcravens2658 Hi again, thanks for replying.
The wonderful series, Hollywood The Pioneers, about the silent era, was released in 1980 after about 4 years of interviews, including of course with Viola. (Episodes are here on RUclips, if you haven't watched them all please do, they're fantastic, with Hazards of the Game, about stunts, being the best I think.)
The series was going to be released on DVD but it was halted at the last minute, it was said because of copyright issues regarding many of the film clips which accompanied the marvellous reminiscences.
The series was made by the great Brownlow and Gill, who also made ones on Chaplin, Keaton and others. Naturally, the interviews with those amazing silent film people were edited - the book of the series says that - but I bet the full versions of them do exist somewhere, and could be released - if only! Brownlow and Gill, such brilliantly dedicated film historians, wouldn't have disposed of interview clips they couldn't use in the series.
Viola Dana mentioned working in Rip Van Winkle with "Thomas Jefferson". Perhaps she meant actor Joseph Jefferson, whose signature role was Rip. Jefferson died in 1905, so if he was the actor Dana really meant it would've been pretty early in her career and quite late in his.
@@jaredcravens2658 there’s more of this?
@@dennman6There were two Joseph Jeffersons who did Rip Van Winkle, the father who wrote an amazing autobiography who commissioned the play, and his son. Both made film excerpts of it, and both survive today.
What I wanted to hear about was her reaction to talkies.
I wonder if she knew Dame Mae Fishman
Yes i think the narrator does sound like roddy macdowel
Is the narrator Roddy McDowell?
Yes
Yes, there is even a caption at the beginning that tells the viewer it is.
It's been said that her voice didn't translate well in the Talkies & she had a rather bulbous nose which hindered her looks