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Info/Help Wanted: Dracula (1931) with original ending?

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In the original theatrical release of Dracula, there was a post end card scene where Professor Van Helsing addresses the audience directly. He appears on a stage with a movie screen behind him and says:

“Just a moment, ladies and gentlemen! A word before you go. We hope the memories of Dracula and Renfield won’t give you bad dreams, so just a word of reassurance. When you get home tonight, and the lights have been turned out, and you are afraid to look behind the curtains — and you dread to see a face appear at the window — why, just pull yourself together and remember that after all, there are such things as vampires!”

Outside of a few stills and a brief clip from the Road To Dracula documentary, I have yet to see a release with this scene intact. I don’t have the 4K release, and I’m quite sure it’s not there either, but I’m inclined to believe there are prints out there with it. In fact, my parents attended a double feature screening of both Dracula and Frankenstein in the early 80s and both recall this scene. In fact, they were surprised to hear that it has never made it to a home video release.

Does anyone know of any collectors who may have a 35MM print of the film so we can see if this scene is included? I would love to know.

Here’s a page on the scene from the Lost Media wiki.
https://lostmediawiki.com/Dracula_(partially_found_epilogue_scene_of_Universal_horror_film;_1931)

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By most accounts there aren’t any surviving prints of the film with the epilogue intact. What little has survived is not enough for a full restoration. This is why the epilogue is only shown in brief clips in the documentary on the DVD/BD.

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crissrudd4554 said:

By most accounts there aren’t any surviving prints of the film with the epilogue intact. What little has survived is not enough for a full restoration. This is why the epilogue is only shown in brief clips in the documentary on the DVD/BD.

In fact it was actually a miracle that the flower girl scene from Frankenstein was found fully intact, considering it was cut from the negative and destroyed soon after

What was used in the current restoration was from some print in the UK that happened to have it, it has noticeably worse quality than the rest of the movie and you can even see the quality shift in the next scene after it cuts back to the lower generation footage (idk what element they used for the rest of the movie)

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I haven’t messed around with any of the AI voice tools myself, but it would be interesting to see if you could train a model on his voice and combine that with what little footage we have and attempt to re-create it.