I recently came across this fragment of 16mm footage while rummaging around in a Burbank junk shop. The clip comes from the never completed 1951 documentary "Legends Of Hollywood Horror" commissioned by Stan Garson at KTLA, the station responsible for the classic Southern California horror anthology "Creature Feature." This footage, an interview with Universal contract writer Stan Rose seems to have been cut very early from the first assembly. A note, still attached to the film can read: DISCARD SEGMENT, ULM MENTIONED". Even as late as 1951, certain entities at Universal were still making efforts to minimize Miss Ulm's contributions to the horror cycle of previous decades.
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Published on March 22, 2012 19:37