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Full length, 2020 restoration sourced from the nitrate neg - what's more to wish for?
https://www.filmarchiv.at/de/filmarchiv-on/video/f_032fQLhLZQ1jqsO4iujuDy

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Online until 4/25/26 on ARD's Mediathek, possibly geo-blocked and German voice-over version only, but still:

https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/dokumentarfilm/jerry-lewis-from-darkness-to-light/swr/Y3JpZDovL3N3ci5kZS9hZXgvbzIyOTQ5NjM

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And, the follow-up release, MÄNNER OHNE NERVEN, is out!
The booklet with film IDs by Norbert Aping is here: https://view.publitas.com/alive-ag/maenner-ohne-nerven/page/1 --

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"Tell us, dear Lubitsch..."
https://www.swr.de/swrkultur/wissen/archivradio/ernst-lubitsch-ueber-den-tonfilm-104.html

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Online as of 4/23, from the maker of the Jerry Lewis documentary THE MAN BEHIND THE CLOWN, geo-restrictions expected to apply: https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/115036-000-A/chaplins-moderne-zeiten/
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The release of the DVD box set this week offers a special surprise; of the 199 episodes of this series, four must be considered lost, but three of these have been reconstructed for this set. For the fourth, practically no trace survives, and the Kirch copies of the source films have been included in...

A treasure trove of German (or German voice over) historic radio interviews: Lang, Hitch (speaking German), Welles, Anny Ondra, Henny Porten, Grock, Disney...https://www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/br-retro-gespraeche-und-interviews/94799814/

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Thanks! Know these DVDs -- that program was aired in short segments of several minutes in ARD's regional programs in the 1980s (if memory serves) as AUS ALT LACH NEU, hosted by Dutch TV personality and, apparently, film collector, Maarten van Roojen ( https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maarten_van_Rooije...

That sounds like yet another series; KLAMOTTENKISTE (mostly?) used music by Conzelmann/Haensch, like this example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAPRSTgvjPk . VdK had Strittmater/Amper -- here's a nice rendition, from lockdown times apparently, of that show's main theme: https://www.youtube.com/wa...