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"OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - It’s a movie that hasn’t been seen in decades — missing
for so long, that many didn’t even know it existed. That is, until it turned up
in Omaha.
On a projector in this Kansas City home, Gary Huggins cues up a recent
discovery.
“I was relieved to find it wouldn’t explode!” he said.
Huggins soon refocused his attention from the technical to find something he
definitely wasn’t expecting.
“Wow, I think I’ve discovered this film that nobody’s seen in at least 50 years
if not 100.”
Huggins, a filmmaker himself, picked up the film at an auction in Omaha last
year.
“There was a distributor that had been in Omaha for decades that had gone out
of business a while ago and this auction house had some of their films and so I
drove up just for that just to see what was up there,” Huggins said.
Everything at the sale that day needed to be sold.
“On one table there were eight or nine stacks about three or four feet high of
films,” he said.
It was an old cartoon on one pile that caught Huggins’ eye; but to get it, he
had to buy the whole stack.
“The stack was $20 — it was the best 20 I’ve ever invested, for sure.”
In that stack that Huggins bought was a silent film from 1923.
“That was a big rush when I realized it was a Clara Bow,” he said."
Via Esther Schindler.
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