KIng Kong Never before seen footage to be seen again?

In the 1970's it was common every Sunday a "theatrical" movie premiered on TV!

It was not uncommon for the movie to have never before seen footage! Universal Studios even brought back cast members year or so later and would shoot additional footage for TV showings!

Some of this unseen footage was shot for the theatrical release but was cut for one reason or another.

However TV was very different in the 1970's! In the 1970's TV stations could not show no more than 12 minutes per hour! (Unlike today where they can show as much as they want) So when a movie premiered on TV lots of times these movies were padded out to fill out a time slot! When a movie played on Network TV in a 3hr or 4hr time slot lots of times these movies were advertised with "NEVER BEFORE SEEN FOOTAGE". Here is a small list of movies they were shown on TV with never before seen footage

"King Kong" 1976 Edition (deleted theatrical footage)
"Airport 77" (footage shot for TV showings)
"Airport 79" (footage shot for TV showings)
"The Deep" (over 40 minutes of deleted footage edited back in)
"Superman" (over 30 minutes of deleted footage edited back in)
"Born in East LA" (deleted footage added back in)
"Two Minute Warning" (footage shot for TV)
"Earthquake" (footage shot for TV)
"Halloween II" (deleted footage added back in)
"Dune" (deleted footage added back in)

Now there is more if you have a list e-mail me at stan39520@yahoo.com

The reason why I am bringing this up is because I would love to see these scenes again! I want to see these scenes added to a DVD special edition. Each of these movies have an audience that remembers seeing this footage when the movies aired on TV! Now lots of these movies can be bought on-line as a bootleg/illegal DVD however I want the real deal here! I am a fan of these movies! I would love to see the King Kong Footage.



Now the directors of these movies most likely do not care for these scenes!
For example Richard Donner directed "SUPERMAN-THE MOVIE". When the movie premiered on TV the producers of "Superman" had theatrical footage added back in without his (Richard Donner) involvement (he cut it for a reason)! He never wanted these scenes to shown "IN A MOVIE PRESENTATION FORMAT" however he wasn't on the best of terms with the producers and so the producers did this behind his back!

Mark Robson who directed "Earthquake" detested the made for TV footage. He did not even direct those scenes. Universal Studios called back several stars of the movie and they worked for about a week shooting scenes that were added for the TV Premiere! In fact NBC spilt the movie into a 2 night mini series event! "Earthquake's" film editor directed the new scenes!

I know the studios want to make money so come-on the next time do a "SPECIAL EDITION" of any of these movies on DVD please release on the bonus section of the DVD add these scenes!

I will be there with my wallet out when they do!