5000 Fingers of Dr. T Documentary 

I agree, the film is just as interesting today as it was 50 years ago. Few films can stand up to the test of time.

Rather like the collaboration between Walt Disney and Salvador Dali producing the animation 'Destino' I saw remnants of that before it was restored The stair sequence in '5000 Fingers' reminds me of that movie Both films were daring attempts at making something more interesting than the usual movie and trying to inspire the imagination and the artistic capacity of and I must use a dreadful phrase 'the ordinary people' of whom I am one, indeed that was specifically walt Disney's desire with 'Destino' and 'Fantasia'

There should be a remake if this film.

@@jacobtennyson9213 hi I do not agree All too often remakes are shallow reflections of the original and I think in this case it would be impossible to recreate the wonderful imagery, especially as the market would inevitably be TV and streaming

Yes, he really was. The longer the interview lasted, the more he remembered.

The thing is, Geisel's original vision was muddled. He was often coerced into compromising the story, being forced to add a love interest against his wishes. Filming was a nightmare: the boys all gorged themselves on hotdogs for lunch. One boy ate too much, he puked, and that lead to a chain reaction. And then after a poor screening, producer Stanley Kramer extensively rewrote, filmed and reedited countless scenes. Geisel called the whole experience "a debaculous fiasco". "I am not made for Hollywood and it is not made for me."

@@yosefdemby8792 Well,as I said,it's DR. SEUSS' only live action.....just like THE GREAT MISSENDEN TREASURE was ROALD DAHLS' reality effort....As for those hotdogs,100 extras got sick....so 100 stomachaches.....TOMMY RETTIG..later the ORIGINAL " Timmie" from LASSIE.....Morris Stoloff,eh? He did the instrumental from PICNIC (1956)....GREAT NAMES FROM THIS PROJECT!!

"Is it...atomic?" "Yes - *very* atomic!" 🤣🤣🤣 I named my production company "Very Atomic Entertainment." (Maybe someday I'll actually produce something under that name...)

Thank you so much. There is a great documentary on the recent release of the 4 films by Stanley Kramer box set.

I watched the film based on Harlan Ellison's constant praise; it more than lived up to it.

I mean, it’s certainly a good film. However, objectively, it wouldn’t crack the top 5,000.

It took me a while to check through my files, but did come up with an address for the house. 6089 Selma Ave., Los Angeles, CA. It's still there but has a wall in front of it with red iron work.

Thanks, Bill! It looks as though the neighbourhood has changed substantially since 1953.

Yes, Seuss was a very dark person. Check out his early books like The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins. The drawings gave me nightmares.

@@54davies It was a bedtime ritual in my home.... read them all...... but this kinda shocked me when I first viewed it.... my parents hadn't seen it.... we saw it at school! The teachers were grumbling.... or shocked.... if I recall it correctly!

No, Sony released it as part of a Stanley Kramer 4 film DVD set with a similar documentary.

Yea, I also had hope. The studio that produced the film, Columnia, was taken over by Sony and many of the films contained in their vault were lost. The late Stanley Kramer, the film's producer, owns a print of all his films. The most recent release of the film in a four disc Stanley Kramer special set, was produced with the cooperation of his widow and it was the cut version, so I don't believe his copy is the full version. We can still hope that it might be hidden in a private collection.

Bill Davies My clients at that time we’re Mgm, Sony and Fox. The possibility a working print found its way into the Mgm vault was slim but... ya never know. At that time I found a few storage boxes in the T.G. Estate collection at UCSD. The manifest was pretty amazing. It included the master stampers for the vinyl album. The continuity script. The storyboards. The original score. Concept art. Everything but film elements.

What happened to the production materials? Those could be our only view into dr seuss’s original vision for one of the most unique American films ever produced.

@@pinkmilk30 currently the story boards script and full musical score as well as the full studio recording masters are in storage at San Diego university per his estate. The actual film trims have not been located. From 1972 onward the Mgm film library has been in disarray. At times masters have popped up in public storage facilities that have gone up for auction due to payments in arrears. The turnaround at mgm has been catastrophic as there are no old timers left to read the almost incomprehensible data that could lead to a discovery of these elements.

Thank you for telling me this.

Obviously I don't check this posting very often. If you still have an interest, email me: billdavies54@aol.com

Very late seeing this comment but what song was it you were referring to?

Yep: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xKs64iVo4PE.html

Yes, he did a lot of work for Jay Ward productions who produced George of the Jungle and Rocky & Bullwinkle.

@@kellyhyson4772 Just watched it. Thanks for this.

I'm big on "politics", but I think this is what these comment venues are all about; Sharing "neat stuff". I'm 60+ years old. Born 1957. I remember watching cartoons in the 60's and early 70's. I think a lot of these cartoons; Bugs Bunny, Looney Toons, etc, were made in the 40's. These were the best. I still remember how the quality of cartoons kinda declined in the 70's. Thanks again for the video. I'm big on movies too. I always look for Edith Head in the credits. I'm not big on fashion design, heh-heh, but I read somewhere that she was from my hometown of San Bernardino, California. For some reason I keep an eye out for makeup artist Ben Nye. Probably because they were pioneers in the "old school" of movies. A character in The Incredibles was based on Edith Head. There's a neat video about her out there somewhere.

@@larrysingleton2864 Wow! I too am always looking for Ben Nye. A big joke in my family. I also look out for Glenn Glenn for sound recording. Keep watching the old stuff like us!