Bootlegs No More #4

Further Online Pearl Dive: Two-Color Dix, Norma's Last Silent But With Sound, and Cats Scratch Canaries to Disc AccompanyThe Vitaphone Soundtrack Project astounds anew, each upload a revelation. They make multiple landfalls a week with treasures unheard, sometimes unseen, latter at last on quality terms not accessible before. Often they’ll go reel by reel as a feature is assembled from elements gathered, Vitaphone discs unearthed like combing tombs in Egypt. Platters are extant, or they are not. Studios may have them and choose not to share. Same with archives. VSP is a citizen’s archive. There should be, ultimately will be, more like them. Whatever is found is funneled to a fanship hoping the Project knows how much we appreciate them. Of late is Redskin (1929), Paramount’s two-color modern-set saga of the West, its native-borns torn between tradition and white man ways. Richard Dix stars, notable Noble Johnson a primary threat. Redskin was offered years ago as part of an “American…

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