Interesting information! Could the "lost" Charlie Chan films have been so as far back as 1937 - during Warner Oland's lifetime? This could account for the later "remakes," perhaps including "CHARLIE CHAN IN RIO" for "THE BLACK CAMEL," "CHARLIE CHAN'S MURDER CRUISE" for "CHARLIE CHAN CARRIES ON," and "MURDER OVER NEW YORK" for "CHARLIE CHAN'S CHANCE." All of the originals being pre-1935 and possibly considered "lost" even then, during the Toler era.
In a 1955 newspaper article entitled "Charlie Chan in Hollywood," (available in our Study under the "Charlie Chan" heading) the writer makes mention of many Chan movies, not relating that some mentioned were considered "lost."
All of this could bear some more - much more - study!
Re: Re: Interesting info on fire at Fox film vaults
Dear Rush,
I agree about this bearing more study. Maybe this has been mentioned before, but an interesting project would be to examine the 1950's era TV Guides (or similar publications) and see if any listings for the lost Chans ever appear. Unfortunately this would be an almost impossible task because one would have to examine the magazines for many different markets (since most of these broadcasts were done at the local level as opposed to on a network).
