Gone with the Wind & Vivien Leigh home video footage discovered!
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- čas přidán 31. 08. 2008
- Katie Couric, David Janssen & Herb Bridges view/discuss the recently discovered GWTW home video footage. The footage shows Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard, Victor Fleming and various extras behind the scenes during the filming of the 1939 classic.
For more information on Vivien Leigh & Gone with the Wind, please visit VIVIEN-LEIGH.COM.
Video supplied by Mark Mayes.
From Brucemore.org: "The subject of this attention was a three-minute segment of footage taken by Howard Hall in 1939. Howard was visiting friends and checking on investments in California when he was invited to visit the Busch Garden set of Gone With the Wind. Howard had access to the set through his friend Paul Robinson, whose wife Ann was the stand-in for Olivia de Havilland. Through that connection, he had remarkable access to the otherwise closed set of the most popular American film ever made. Fortuitously, he brought his movie camera.
The quality of the images is extraordinary. Howard documents the filming of one of the opening scenes of the movie -- the barbecue at Twelve Oaks. He focuses on Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh sitting by their trailers in full costume, smoking and waiting for their scenes. He also shows stand-ins setting up a shot for Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland. Some scenes reveal hundreds of extras in antebellum costumes, standing in the California sun, waiting for the cameras to roll.
Howard's filming on the set of Gone with the Wind was not an isolated instance of his access to Hollywood sets. Letters written to Margaret in 1937 describe a few of his previous encounters with some of the biggest actors of the era." - Krátké a kreslené filmy
Olivia's stand in was Ann Robinson. I was friends with Ann's daughter and we would visit her at the Motion Picture Home out in Calabasas. One Sunday they were screening Gone With the Wind at their theater and I had pointed out to me all the scenes "mama" was in. The scene where Ashley comes home from the war and Melanie runs down the hill, well that's mama running down the hill, not Olivia. She worked on many movies with Olivia, including a couple with Errol Flynn. We asked her what he was like and she said, "He was a baaad boy!". lol!
Wait, is that really her at 4:45???
That's so amazing. I love film history, Olivia de Haviland was some woman and her famous lawsuit had reaching impact
Ewww
She was madly in love with Errol Flynn but knew he was a bad lad!
It wasn't a picnic, it was a barbeque
Baaaa-buh-kew
BEST FILM EVER CREATED.
YES!!!!! ❤
BRAVO!!! Amazing historical footage. I wish Vivien smiling and waving to the camera had been on!!! The greatest film performance by an actress ever given, she brought Scarlett O'Hara to full life and sprinkled European Elegance on the role, a quality missing from all the competitors. She made history.
Yes its her stand in! I love Gone with the Wind! I cant believe they found this! Ive always wanted to see this.
are you sure?
This is such a beautiful footage. Boy, would I of loved to of been there! Specially to see Vivien
A wonderful piece of film. Congratulations on discovering it, and thank you so much for sending it! I am English, and so proud that the part of Scarlett which was coveted by so many American stars, all fine actresses, went in the end to an unknown English actress. A wonderful film, and watching it even after all these years, one simply cannot imagine anyone else in that pivotal role.
Susan Rumens Three of the four principal actors were British.
Indeed, the role was made for her.
It amazes me how a British actor/actress can get a southern accent right but really blows my mind when an American can get a British accent right. Vivian Leigh was so beautiful. This is one of my favorite movies because of her.
Susan Rumens The simple truth is British actors are just better.
@@marymcreynolds8355 Bette Davis, Hattie McDaniel, Katharine Hepburn, Angela Bassett, Marlon Brando all said “hi”
The horse that you see walking across the set in this film is Golden Cloud who became Roy Roger's Trigger. That means Trigger was probably in Gone With The Wind. When Scarlet looks out the window and sees Ashley kissing Melanie good bye there is a palomino in the background. It must be Trigger. Trigger was owned by Hutchens brothers stables and was rented out for a lot of movies not related to Roy Rogers. He was Maid Marians mount in the Robin Hood movie.
Thank you for this fantastic memorabilia note, I will always remember it. BRAVO!
The horse referred to here as Trigger was the mount of Gerald O'Hara when he jumps the fence early in the movie.
and?
Your info was the very best part of this video!. Thanks.
Which Robin Hood movie?
even i can tell that's Olivia De Haviland's stand-in...she only looks a LITTLE like Olivia.
The costuming for this movie had to be 100 times anything contemporary in modern films! Even compared to the Classics on PBS.
I love Gone With the Wind. I have seen this movie 5 to7 times a year.
Diana Ray me toooooo omg I love it sooooo much. 😍
Ha , me also watch the movie over and over the first time i see in Romania 1972 with my parents i was 13 when i came to USA i watch and can remember how many times its my nr 1 movie ,.
How many times did they have to tell katie that that lady was a stand in
I know right…. I’m like….
Katie is not very bright, that's why she leans left
NONE OF THEM KNEW SUNGLASSES WERE INVENTED IN THE 13TH CENTURY. PEOPLE HAV FLAWS. YOURS IS BEING OVERLY CRITICAL
Thank you very much. That's REALLY interesting, I mean seeing the stars out of character, and in COLOUR, during the production is truly priceless, especially since it's THIS film.
Filmed in Pasadena, CA - it's fun to see this footage of Gone With the Wind, right near our house.
I had no idea it was shot in Pasadena. Wow. My dad grew up there and would have been in high school then, before the war. He never mentioned this movie.
Brilliant. My father worked with Lawrence Olivier years later on The Entertainer. He was struggling with Vivian's issues. Very sad. She was a wonderful star.
Katie Couric was soo ill prepared for this interview, it's embarrassing...
and arguing with the expert who has personal pride in the film as if he doesn't know a stand in.
That annoyed me very much about her interview. Even I could figure out who were the stand-ins and who were the real actors.
George Custer She is a legend in her own mind, is Katie.
socal rocks If only everyone could be as smart as you, what a wonderful world it would be.
@@SR-vl6ql
I gave your comment a thumbs up because I interpreted it as sarcasm.
this is amazing that they found the homemade footage from gone with the wind.
I still watch every time its on
Love the footage... love the commentary. So eloquent! GwtW is indeed one of a kind movie... so exquisite and really looking contemporary even for now. I probably watched it almost 50 times!
I can't believe Couric thought she knew more than the historian! Unbelievable!
REPORTER QUESTIONS--HER JOB.
@@barbarabaldwin7120 As *IF*🙄
A miracle of film-making. They got it right. The epic, sprawling novel is distilled to its essence. Even the interiors are historically accurate. (Just look at the wallpapers.) Vivien Leigh looks exactly as I had pictured Scarlett, and nailed the role. I had read the book three times during my teens. The film had not been in distribution since the early 50s, so I was chomping at the bit at its re-release when I was 16 (in widescreen, which only meant that the top and bottom of the screen was chopped.) I was thunderstruck when I saw her. "THAT"S SCARLETT!" A revelation.
Actually, in the book, Scarlett was described as not being particularly beautiful. It’s her personality that made her seductive. Much like Cleopatra, who also was no beauty.
It's so nice to see these footage. Thank you for sharing!
Vlad Sicoe ...
Thank you for posting! This is so interesting. I love Gone With the Wind. A true classic!
I love Vivian, what a Beautiful Woman !
And what an Actress !!
Nobody could touch her on the screen ! Nobody !!
I wonder why Katie or none of the two guest point out that, in addition to Vivien, Clark and Leslie, we can clearly see Hattie McDaniel in this footage. I mean she was an Oscar winning actress....
Let me guess: ”Racist” 😂 stop trying to subliminally start shit.
Where is Hattie?
I was thinking the same thing!
She wasn't a main character. The actors mentioned were. Your skin color doesn't make you special.
@@lightshift3431 You are wrong on every level. She absolutely was a main character. She’s the only cast member to get an Oscar for the movie. Also, my skin color does make me special. And you don’t get any say on that. Good luck to you! Bitterness isn’t cute.
Carole Lombard's body language shows that she's very possessive of Clark Gable. She is giving Vivien the 'cold shoulder' & has her entire body turned against Vivien & towards Clark. She even has her left leg over the arm of the chair towards Clark. Her body language is telling Vivien, "He's mine!" You'll see her giving Vivien an even more blatant 'cold shoulder' in one of the wrap party photos.
Carole Lombard also wanted to play Scarlett. Vivien's oscar winning performance probably made Carole regret her behavior later. At the time, Carole probably considered Vivien a nobody compared to herself. That being said, it was still very sad when Carole Lombard was killed in a plane crash serving her country to sell war bonds.
Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable did not hate each other. She hated kissing him because he had false teeth which caused him to have bad breath, but other than that they got along well. There are plenty of behind the scenes photos of them playing board games and chatting between shots. There is even a photo of them shitting together at some function not long before Gable's death.
Lol..Your last sentence said their is footage of them shi**ing together.i think you meant sitting.
+LaDia Ferguson I think you meant "there is footage".
Shitting together CAN be a very unifying activity.
71259mark- Yes, if you're in the military.
puertoricanmama92 k
Thank you so much for posting this. I had not seen this before. Just wonderful footage. What a treat. this is my all time favorite movie
thanks again :)
She couldn’t tell that wasn’t Olivia and then asked the other man to verify. How rude
She's always is
This is outstanding! I love it! But, how dare she question those men if that was Olivia or not. They would ought to know!
SHE DARES BECAUSE SHE IS THE BEST INTERVIEWER-AWARD-WINNING. SHE WAS CLARIFYING.
I know, Katie is such a, such a..YANKEE!!!
@@barbarabaldwin7120no, her manner had nothing to do with professionalism. Katie known to be this way, read about it.
Who love this film now in 2018,?
I DO!! The age doesn't matter. It's my 2nd favorite movie of all time, and it was almost my personal favorite movie of all time!!
Me!!
Meeeeeeee
Me
They can’t make a historical drama now without political correctness raising its ugly head.
I am shocked at how little Katie Couric did in the way of homework. Besides the fact that she must have never even SEEN GWTW, if she could think the stand-in was Olivia! A pretty girl but of course not the striking beauty that was and is Olivia D.
Well, she DOES look a lot like Olivia, and if you didn't know there was a stand-in for her, it wouldn't occur to you that that wasn't her.
S R She doesn’t even look like her in the face much at all! And there are closeups of her! They’re two completely different people and that is actually quite obvious.
Lol she reads the news. This was just another 5 minute segment on one of her random shows. It’s impossible for these tv anchors to research every segment they do!
YOU HAVE NO IDEA OF HER "HOMEWORK.' IT WAS A BAR-BE-CUE SCENE, THEY ALL GOT WRONG
@@barbarabaldwin7120 Her lack of research is self evident ! It’s easy to see that it is not Olivia de Havilland! I knew it instantly and I’m not a journalist on a big story!
Wow. Thanks for posting this! It amazes me what good condition the film is in.
Oh My God!!! Incredible ... This Viv's image, sitting of backs. Wonderful. Thank you, thank you very much for this Video, from Argentina. Roxana
Fantastic !!!!
Thank you so much for this wonderful footage, it really is quite amazing.
Wow! That's so cool to be able to see that. Thank you forvsharing
A trip back in time.
I agree with vam1018. Sunglasses were actually "invented" in the thirteenth century. Hard to believe, but it's true. Google it up if you don't believe me. But this is beyond cool. I've loved GWTW since childhood! All I gotta say about this is AW MAN!!!! LOL!!!!
Everybody smoked back then.
They'd be dead anyway...
@@bigstuff52 Olivia De Haviliand is still alive and kicking
@@theofficialphoenixtv5765 I stand corrected..............saw this movie for the first time 51 years ago
Had no idea Olivia was still alive. God bless her but I wouldn't want to live to be that old. Everybody you know is gone.
NOT true. Tobacco addicts never got to even half the U.S. population, thank heavens. Of course, they killed plenty of INNOCENT people, who were exposed to TOXIC TOBACCO SMOKE!
medicolegal.tripod.com/tobaccomurder.htm
Fascinating.
this is such fun---so great to see behind scenes--
Very Cool! Thank you for sharing!!!
thank you for this!
A lot of the stars back then had lookalike stand-ins back then, Katie. This is too awesome. I wish they would find more footage like this!
It's still done today. It frees the actors from the tedium of setting up and lighting the shot. They can relax, run their lines, talk to the director, etc.
"is this her stand in"? Sigh, how often can you ask the same question. Laugh.
Amazing! I love Gone With The Wind! 🙏🙏
Great footage thanks alot !
lorefolk Lisseerk "a lot" is two words...sheesh!
Kind of annoying when Katie was asking if he is sure was right about the stand-in actress. Of course he was, he is an authority. Are you, Katie?
Thanks for sharing!
absolutely UNBELIEVABLE! super cool!
Amazingly enough, Olivia de Havilland, who played a major role in the film is still alive!
SHE'S A SURVIVOR AND A LADY. AS OF 2024--I THINK SHE MIGHT BE IN HEAVEN..
Wow, amazing! Love watching this.
me too! i love gwtw! and this footage is just absolutely cool
This is so amazing!!!
The brilliance of this footage is almost ruined by katie's presence.
STOP COMMENTING IF YOU HATE KATIE COURIC! THIS WAS JOY FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE!
Weird how nobody hates a man like they hate a woman. Smh.
Best Movie EVER!
AMAZING!!!
This footage is amazing!
The sun Glasses were not worn by the common people, because they were prescribed for people with some trouble with their eye sight, so they were not worn.
So glad to hear that! :)
WOW amazing footages
Fascinating video!
amazing footage
貴重な映像ですね。眼福です。
日本人見つけた！
Wow and know one’s looking at their cell phones! 🤣
This year 2019 30 years old Gosh! 👏👏
Anyone that really knows the movie would actually know that was not Olivia de Havilland. She was a beautiful woman and even though her stand in was pretty, she was most definitely not Olivia!
It was really annoying when Katie kept asking, "Are you sure it's not her?" Uh, yeah... damn sure!
Come on Katie, please stop embarrassing yourself.
Jesus Christ just because someone can’t tell the difference between someone who looks very much like a really famous actress doesn’t make them arrogant or an idiot.
They did have sunglasses, of a sort, during the Civil War.
Do your research, Katie!
It seems like yesterday. It's hard to imagine that nearly a century has passed since this video
Exciting footage of behind the scenes of gone with the wind
Thx A LoT :]
My great uncle Robert Gleckler was cast in Gone With The Wind as Jonas Wilkerson overseer of the slaves at Tara. He shot 2 scenes under George Cukor then died of uremic poisoning during a hiatus in the production.
Amazing that this was filmed in color.
Kodachrome had been out for a few years, but only for home movies and slides.
Are there any more recent versions of this footage to view? has it been preserved/restored to see ? :)
It is amazing that this home movie was in color since color was just starting to hit the big screen then. Awesome to see Gable and Leigh relaxing, smoking away.
It just means the person was using a real motion picture camera and not some Kodak home movie camera. If the guy was rich he'd want the best so he got technicolor film.
I can't believe that woman can't tell that it's just a stand in... it really does not look all that much like Olivia. But this is really cool! I wish there was more stuff like this...
Gee Katie... you can't tell that's not Olivia!? Hmm, it doesn't look like her, and the dress is different from the gown Melanie really wears...
And when Olivia was shown she said nothing,lol!
This is AWESOME.
The color is amazing. Thanks for sharing!
I wouldn’t have known. The footage is blurry.
So funny how it’s obviously not Olivia sitting in the grass and the gown isn’t exactly the same as Melanie’s. Tho you can see Olivia and Leslie starting around 3:44. Her skirts are hiked up to protect her costume- and she has the appropriate bonnet on. Herb was such a wonderful man, so missed. 👒
this is sooo cool
@thenightscribe As the film GWTW was released in 1939, in 2010 when you wrote "This was SIXTY YEARS AGO!" it was even longer, 71 years, now 72. Yet seems footage from last year. Ironically, this scene of naively leisurely prewar life depicts not just the antebellum South before the Civil War, but too captures the eve (/afternoon) before WW2: just three years after this footage, Clark Gable's bride Carole Lombard (here seated next to him?) and costar Leslie Howard would die in plane downs.
Now 85 years ago.
In the film you can see Clark Gable sitting next to a trailer talking to a man who is standing on the right….on the left sitting down is a woman whom I think is Carole Lombard, the love of his life who was tragically killed in a plane crash (on a bond tour for raising funds for WWII efforts). The way she is sitting with her leg up….her relaxed carefree attitude…soooo Carole Lombard!
The movie does not show the burning of Atlanta. Once Sherman cut the last rail line into Atlanta the Confederate army left the city and burned their ammo dump in the process. This is what the movie shows and the movie even tells us that this is what it shows. Atlanta fell to the U.S. Army in September. The movie shows Scarlet hiding beneath a bridge on her way to Tara as Sherman's forces cross the bridge going in the opposite direction. It wasn't until the following November that Sherman burned the city and even then he did not burn the entire city.
@JudgeJulieLit when was the film recorded,how long did it take to be taped?
There are some "other" home movies that I would pay a fortune to watch!
The Florida scenes were NOT shot at Busch Gardens, but at Cypress Gardens, also the location of several other filming like Creature from the Black Lagoon.
cypress gardens did not exist in 1939. This was shot at a park in California.
Busch Gardens in Pasadena, CA (open from 1905-1937) was the only of the BG parks open at that time. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busch_Gardens
@@Shadows921 : Exactly. And it became residential right after WW2.
No, that's a Myth, Ms. Odea: Busch Gardens was in Pasadena from before the beginning of the 20th Century until those very grounds became residential right after WW2. It's also documented that these very Exterior scenes of the Twelve Oaks BBQ were filmed here. But I see that you're thinking of Busch Gardens in "Florida", in Tampa. None of "GWTW" was filmed at Cypress Gardens either. None of it.
Are there more GWTW home movies anywhere? This can't be all there is can it? It's great :)
Awesome Awesome Awesome.
They should make it in to a DVD mass produce it and if they bring out GWTW on blue ray or a special edition DVD add that footage that's history and the surviving cast members and deceased fact members families should get copies
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Katie Couric can be so embarrassing.😝
Why?
Because she doesn't have either the sense enough or good eyes enough to see that the woman was indeed a stand in for Dehaviland!
All the time
@@Sealust50I didn’t know it either. The footage is blurry.
Wow!😍
yes that IS olivia de havilland at 3:35 walking with leslie howard =D
I'm a 64 year old film fan set to watch the
new Blu Ray of GWTW.
Also a photographer & former color printer.
Q: how did the man
have color back then?
Kodachrome film came out in 1935. They
had 8mm by 1936, I bet this clip was
16mm. Hard to tell here. When I used Super 8mm in the 70's it cost me a dollar per minute.
Technicolor was a very different process.
Accurate, durable-- probably cheaper.
Kodak stopped making Kodachrome film: 2009.
I sure hope to see this clip in blu ray.
Filmed in Pasadena / Busch Gardens
Cool stuff indeed
The very best movie ever.
Isn't that Olivia de Havilland at 3:45? with her skirt tucked up? Because I noticed that she and her stand-in have different bonnets, and hers looks like the one in the movie.
The Women has a fashion show sequence that is in color. I have a coffee table book on the Making of GWTW, which is heavily researched with a complete bibliography.
Technology has evolved since this clip was made it may well be worth it to record it once more, I just hope you do, now a days there are impressive digitalizing machines for the ancient motion pictures
Nothing unusual about home movies being in color at this time, they were shot with Kodachrome film. Would have been more unusual if it had been in black and white.
You are correct. The exists numerous "home movies" from that period in color. I hate to mention it but it's true, Eva Braun was a big home-movie fan who took many candid home-movies of Hitler and his henchmen.
@@bgmeadows6085 It's only a matter of time before the sex tape gets leaked.
the footage was unavailable because there were very few color cameras back in the day. GWTW had to share their technicolor cameras with "The Wizard of Oz" and "The Women" since they were some of the very first color productions of the time. A HOME video, in color, I can't tell you much about...
Kodachrome was available at the time for home movies and slides, but was not suitable for Hollywood films yet. Professional films were shot with the huge 3-strip Technicolor cameras until Kodak perfected a professional version suitable for Hollywood in the 1950s.
@thenightscribe by the time you were writing this, it was 70 years ago (1939), no?