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This is absolutely fascinating:
You can read more, and watch some of the footage, from the below links:
Part One
Part Two
This makes me hopeful that someday, more lost footage will resurface, including the rest of the above deleted scene and the complete Socorro sequence (in which Tuco searches for Blondie in a small Mexican border village. A partial/reconstructed version of this scene is on the DVD/Blu-ray as an extra).
In 2014 a private collector purchased and shipped an original 35mm print from Italy in order to examine the colour as a means of using it as a reference to personally colour correct the new MGM 4k master and create a "fan version" of the film. A few of us partnered up to work on this project, bringing together both financial resources and individual skills. Scanning a 35mm print at 4k is a costly venture, with many technical hurdles. Doing the due diligence and research is also a time consuming process, which has taken the better part of 2 years.
Once the print was scanned, it was discovered to be a one of a kind treasure, with new footage and differences not present in ANY home video release (worldwide).
Multiple sources were checked against the print, 8mm films released in the 70's, multiple vhs and pal copies from around the world dating all the way back to the early 80's. The new footage from this particular print simply doesn't exist anywhere else, even on other vintage 35mm Italian prints (more on that below).
The differences discovered so far on a preliminary examination are as follows:
1. Extra footage (3 new closeup shots) in the early scene where Angel Eyes visits the farmer
2. A fragment of a scripted deleted scene at the end of a reel
3. The complete beating scene (including portions that were damaged on the print MGM used as their reference and included as a bonus feature on DVD and BLU)
4. Various music cue and sound effect differences.
5. Longer character titles in the final scene.
You can read more, and watch some of the footage, from the below links:
Part One
Part Two
This makes me hopeful that someday, more lost footage will resurface, including the rest of the above deleted scene and the complete Socorro sequence (in which Tuco searches for Blondie in a small Mexican border village. A partial/reconstructed version of this scene is on the DVD/Blu-ray as an extra).