Today's historic
event represents an
extraordinary collaboration between 3
great organisations : Warner Brothers,
The British Film Institute and Hammer
Film Productions. By some magical
circumstance I have been blessed to have
had long associations with all 3.
The British Film
Institute's commitment to the
restoration and preservation of the
world's great film heritage is perfectly
represented by this wonderful event. You
should also know that the print that you
are about to see has been painstakingly
restored from the original negative and
not digitally.
The legendary
British film company HAMMER FILM
PRODUCTIONS has provided generations of
filmgoers all over the world with
enormous pleasure and has in turn
contributed to the history of cinema.
During its most successful years, Hammer
dominated the horror film market,
enjoying worldwide distribution and
considerable financial success. This
success was due, in part, to
distribution partnerships with major
United States studios, such as Warner
Brothers who have worked so closely
with the BFI on this
project
Dracula was an
enormous success, breaking box-office
records in the UK, the United States
where it was released as Horror of
Dracula, Canada, and across the world.
Today we
celebrate the 60th anniversary of the
Cannes film festival and the 50th
anniversary of the making of the film
that we are about to see.
Ladies and
gentlemen you are in for a treat....so
here it is - the newly restored
version of the classic British film
DRACULA!
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