In an interview with the Pink Cadillac Podcast Angie Marchese shared a few interesting facts on a new book project and the preserving of the "lost" MGM footage for 'Elvis on Tour' and 'Elvis: That's The Way It Is' movies.
Graceland is working on a new book on Elvis' jumpsuits. For this project they literally took every jumpsuit off display to photograph it. "We've got all the outfits photographed in detail, where you can get close-ups of their design and how they're made, like the butterflies and all the little things that are on them. Some suits are taking a little bit of a break from the Rock in the Dress to Rock exhibit because there's another movie coming out this fall and some of them might be featured in that movie and also featured in a new exhibit at Graceland."
Warner Brothers now owns the MGM footage for ‘Elvis On Tour’ and ‘Elvis: That’s The Way It Is’. Thanks to Baz Luhrmann’s work on the 2022 ‘ELVIS’ movie, (all) the footage and the audio was found in the salt mines. “They brought it out and they digitized it and matched the sounds up to the footage and all of that stuff” for future use.
Even if Baz doesn't use all of the footage in the movie, it now has been put in a put in a condition that it can be used and it can be shared. "So, that's what's exciting about it … And I mean, can you imagine? I mean, literally, there's like six shows, complete shows for 'Elvis on Tour', and we only see one of them. You only see bits and pieces, not the full show. Elvis does several costume changes in 'Elvis on Tour' because they cut the different shows together, but now that they're being preserved this way for Baz to use them for this film, they will be preserved as whole shows.”
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