Spanish crew shot an alternative Dracula after Bela Lugosi had gone to bed

Re:Spanish crew shot an alternative Dracula after Bela Lugos... by Daho0n on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @06:19PM (#26020559)

>Then in the early 1990s it transpired there was a copy in Cuba, a fact confirmed by the Cinemateca de Cuba in Havana. Still, it took four meetings – the UCLA Film and Television Archive had to fly out to take part in negotiations – to arrange a temporary loan. As of 2015, the film sits in the US Library of Congress

So, they made a deal and Library of Congress broke it? Or is it still on loan or is it a copy?

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Re:Spanish crew shot an alternative Dracula after Bela Lugos... by joshuaissac on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @08:13PM (#26021394)

I was wondering the same thing when I read that. According to https://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies-news-review... (2015), the loan was made by 1995, and it does not mention anything about it not being returned, so it seems somewhat unlikely that the US Library of Congress version (which was added in 2015) is the original.

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Re:Spanish crew shot an alternative Dracula after Bela Lugos... by wearsshoes on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @08:33PM (#26021532)

Probably they made new prints from the Havana copy, or digitized it and returned the original.

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Re:Spanish crew shot an alternative Dracula after Bela Lugos... by karaterobot on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @07:52PM (#26021265)

Cuba should charge them $.10 a day in overdue fines.

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Re:Spanish crew shot an alternative Dracula after Bela Lugos... by monocasa on Thursday February 04, 2021 @02:39AM (#26023442)

Cuba interestingly enough already has a policy of not accepting money from the US for stolen property. The US writes a check each month for the rent of Guantanamo Bay that the Cuban government then doesn't cash in protest.

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Re:Spanish crew shot an alternative Dracula after Bela Lugos... by tomcam on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @07:37PM (#26021158)

Yeah, the most important news about this extraordinary piece of history is omitted!

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Re:Spanish crew shot an alternative Dracula after Bela Lugos... by toyg on Thursday February 04, 2021 @02:52AM (#26023516)

This sort of diplomatic “loan” with extensive negotiations is typically done with the expectation from both sides that, in practice, it will never be returned. I expect (and hope) that Cubans got something in return.

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