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Forgotten Silver (1995) (TV)
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3 October 1997 (USA)
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Forgotten Silver is a mockumentary which details the prodigious life of "lost" filmmaker Colin McKenzie...
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What is real anyway?
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(Credited cast) | Peter Jackson | ... | Himself |
 | Johnny Morris | ... | Himself - Film Archivist (also as Jonathon Morris) |
| Costa Botes | ... | Himself - Film Maker |
 | Harvey Weinstein | ... | Himself - Miramax Films |
 | Leonard Maltin | ... | Himself - Film Historian |
 | Sam Neill | ... | Himself - Actor / Director |
| Marguerite Hurst | ||
| John O'Shea | ||
| Lindsay Shelton | ... | Himself |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Beatrice Ashton | ... | Hannah McKenzie |
| Peter Corrigan | ... | Stan the Man |
 | Sarah McLeod | ... | May Belle (research assistant) |
| Thomas Robins | ... | Colin McKenzie |
| Jeffrey Thomas | ... | Narrator |
| Davina Whitehouse | ... | Herself |
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53 min | USA:70 min (DVD)
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This was originally screened as a genuine documentary to an unsuspecting New Zealand public, and was only revealed to be a hoax a few days afterwards.
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Factual errors: Colin's synchronized sound film is supposed to have been released in 1908. If we are to believe that it was the first film to feature synchronized sound, we would have to discard the lesser known, but still earlier work of Arthur Gilbert and John Morland, and others, who had all produced and exhibited sound films at earlier dates.
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Featured in Behind the Bull: Forgotten Silver (2000) (V)
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Documentary is all about taking real life and shaping it into a story. 'Forgotten Silver' suggests that real part doesn't even have to be real, as long as the story's good.
I watched this again tonight - probably the 4th or 5th time I've seen it since it was first screened as an (allegedly) true doco back in 1996. Despite knowing the whole thing was cod, I was quite surprised to find tears in my eyes as NZ pioneer film-maker Colin McKenzie accidentally filmed his own death in Spain, so drawn was I into the story.
Once you strip away the hype over the hoax factor, what's left is just a great story about a struggling film maker facing and almost overcoming insurmountable obstacles to create a work of mad genius. Anyone expecting belly laughs from 'Forgotten Silver' is probably going to be disappointed, because viewed as a story, this isn't a comedy - it's a tragedy. It's no wonder so many people were sucked into believing it when it first screened - the Colin McKenzie saga has an emotional depth which is heartbreaking.
Bonus points for a brilliant musical score, some superb technical effects (especially the corroded, bubbling, self-destructing nitrate film; most filmmakers would have settled for a couple of cliché tramlines to make the footage look old), and the gorgeous Thomas Robbins as Colin McKenzie.