European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Cekot Heum l71 . Muir Roma Terrt a wet  Hom Mckimm  lot  lost horizon return of a film classic by v6hnon Scott United press International lost horizon director Frank copra landmark 1937 film of an idyllic civilization i Tibet has been saved Lorf lure generations thanks la the american film  Heaters across the United slates Are exhibiting the 49-year-old film in its original form almost. Like hundreds of other old movies lost horizon was produced on nitrate film a flammable volatile substance that decomposes All movies were filmed on nitrate prior to 1851, and almost half of them made before that Date Are Kesl. The acetate film used since 1951 will last presumably forever. Most movies Are quickly Lor Gatten. Others Are considered classics and become National treasures. Lost horizon based on James Hilton s utopian novel and starring Ronald Colman . Warner Thomas Mitchell and Jane Wyatt is a treasure that was almost loss. The film has a curious his Lory going Back to its first screenings in f 937. Ii bombed in a sneak preview in Santa Barbara. Calif. Columbia pictures executives were enraged. A despairing Capra decked the first iwo reels were unnecessary and burned them in the studio Furnace. But subsequent previews of the 132-minute film were wildly successful. Eventually it was nominated for a Bast picture Oscar losing to the Ufeo Emile Zola. It waa reissued As lost horizon at Shangrila a truncated Tob minute 1942 version. The original was snipped and spliced leaving no negative copy of Capra s original. In 1967 the nitrate negative decomposed. Two years later the studio decided to junk its nitrate prints and offered a 116-Minule version of loss horizon to the af1 for screening purposes. The plight of Capr � film came to the attention of Bob Gil the api technical officer. With the help of the Library of Congress archives gift assembled a new print with re recorded sound. Restoration continued on the picture for 15 years with the British film Institute Columbia classics and the Urcla film archives pitching in. The 132-minute restored version of the movie includes production stills and freeze framed images from remaining scenes for missing picture sections. Earlier this year lost horizon was screened at several film festivals to enthusiastic audience response. This summer it will be shown in new York san Francisco Salt Lake City Seattle. Houston Austin and Washington. . Among other cities. Jean Firstenberg api s director said lost horizon joins 21,000 other films in the collection of the Library of Congress. The api does t restore movies Wustenberg said. We finance restoration projects at the museum of Modem Art the George Eastman House Urcla and the Library of Congress we be provided millions of dollars for their archivists projects. Hundreds of films Are in the process of being restored but Only once in a while does a project involve a classic like loss horizon a Star is bom or the big Trail. Too Many great Early films have been lost the original 1917  Theda bars and . Fields thai Flo Yale girl that . Griffith directed in 1926. For decades people who made films were Only interested in profits. They had no idea they were producing works of Art that could last forever. Film is our country s heritage a history of our society. Restoring end preserving movies is the same. As keeping books in libraries. Films Tell us everything about our lives and  asked Why Torad film Are nol simply transferred to videotape cassettes Firstenberg said. It s like having literary first editions. People need the primary source. It s the difference Between an Oil painting and a  because funds Are limited and time is running out on old nitrate films selectivity is important. Firstenberg said movies of every Era and genre Are being preserved to provide future generations with a Broad spectrum of our movie past. We encourage americans to rummage through their garages closets allies and under their Beds looking for old movies that May have been stored for years Firstenberg said Vou never can Tell where missing footage of a film like lost horizon will turn  saturday july 19, 1980 ethnic restaurant in l. A. That shuns fusion cuisine Bojoh Demers United press International n Southern California where asking what s new brings a list Loo Long to mean much Load lovers steel their palates daily for the Lales cuisine expected to change human history Lor 15 or 20 minutes at least. Vel among these same often jaded diners there is agreement that a bit of the real thing is going on in the los Angeles restaurant called City run by Susan Feniger and Mary sue million. Even today having one woman in a commercial Kitchen is unusual enough. Having iwo working Side by Side creating new flavors and combinations out of dues both paid separately is cause Lor increasingly regular rejoicing. This whole restaurant is a personal thing said Feniger a Diminu Ilive woman who wears her hair Crew Cul on top and with a tight Black and while braid streaming Down her Back. Ii really does t have much to do with what the Public would want. The key is to Hope that what itt personal is also what  something certainly is working at City where Feniger Milliken and their Kitchen staff prepare upwards of 550 meals a Day six Days and seven nights a week with full dinners Lor two approaching too with wine. In an Ultra modern science fiction Selling that blends elements of warehouses and Auto showrooms the restaurant works its Way through a passionately elfin la menu that defies generalization and sometimes even description. Favourites among regulars include Gnocchi Parmesan Lamb s Tongue Vinaigrette portuguese Cockle and Mussel Stew and spicy Chicken while newer offerings include thai Melon salad. Poona Pancake Lamb Shanks with Leta and oregano stuffed veal breast and intriguing meats from the Landor oven. We prefer to keep our ethnic influences pure said Feniger ejecting the casual mingling lumped together elsewhere As fusion cuisine. Mary sue worked in Bangkok and i in India and we both worked in Mexico. We feel a real need to stay pure on those Levels. A d Lake a dish Oft the menu Rathe than see it go away from  City opened its doors Only last August but the iwo Chels had several years earlier started collecting a clientele peppered with artists writers and other creative types. Today their restaurant comfortably mixes Young couples in Blue jeans with older dressier diners of great sophistication. All a drawn by the likelihood that toe or More of a meal s tastes and textures will come As a Complete Surprise along with the Chance to Bash in the Post Industrial ambiance and watch the chefs work via mtg style monitors at the bar. Feniger describes the decor or Lack of same As Scenic abstract and functional. She reacts strongly against descriptions like Stark and trendy insisting the absence of artwork on the Walls emphasizes a vision in which the entire Structure is Art. She and mall Ken Are carrying their design ideas All the Way to a Cookbook they Are preparing. Insisting its graphics As Well As its recipes reflect their More and More recognizable style. The two chefs Mel in Chicago alter growing up in different sections of the Midwest. Both ended up cooking in Paris and both ended up heading Home for sheer Lack of funds. Food experiences followed fast and furious for we two Thailand India Mexico ending in that great ethnic melting pot los Angeles. Here they Learned up for the 40-Seal City cafe eventually turning it into an Alt mexican eatery and giving birth to City. It May be that two years Down the Road Well be doing More yugoslavian Feniger observed with a Quirky Grin before heading Back into the Kitchen. Well definitely keep growing. There s no question. Perhaps out of hands on cooking that s a major Issue right now. We plan to gel Rich. Somehow. And  the stars and stripes Page 17