TCM released it to theaters a year ago. First time I ever saw it on a big screen, cried like a baby when it was over. The greatest epic film ever made.
+Steven Smyth I'm so jealous. I didn't get to see it when it was re-released recently. Next chance I get, I definitely will. Definitely would be epic on the big screen.
I saw this at the age of 5, the first time after being very sick and I absolutely fell in love with the picture. An absolutely stunning film. Certainly are not made like this anymore.
I live in Canada and I love this film I watched it two days ago . And Clark Gable used to duck hunt like one hour from Winnipeg. He was in Manitoba like in 1939 duck hunting
On September 9, 1939, Selznick, his wife, Irene, investor John "Jock" Whitney and film editor Hal Kern drove out to Riverside, California to preview it at the Fox Theatre. The film was still a rough cut at this stage, missing completed titles and lacking special optical effects. It ran for four hours and twenty-five minutes, but would later be cut down to under four hours for its proper release. A double bill of Hawaiian Nights and Beau Geste was playing, and after the first feature it was announced that the theater would be screening a preview; the audience were informed they could leave but would not be readmitted once the film had begun, nor would phone calls be allowed once the theater had been sealed. When the title appeared on the screen the audience cheered, and after it had finished it received a standing ovation. In his biography of Selznick, David Thomson wrote that the audience's response before the film had even started "was the greatest moment of (Selznick's) life.”
Museum piece??? This is perhaps the most important film in cinematic history. We are now at the point where television and movies need to be a required subject in school much like reading the classics. This is where it started. It started with silent films/talkies and people who had the dream to build from nothing what is now Hollywood!
The Old Mill it shows is the North Little Rock Arkansas that's where I'm from... The old mill l is still there and visited tour attraction everybody in North Little Rock has been there and goes there they redone in now they got like a concession stand I believe in bathrooms people get married there my sister got married there fantastic place to go hang out before they have the lot gates and I think just certain hours you can visit free. I'm 66 years old now and back when I was 15 we used to go there and hang out and party and do what we wanted we always take care of it and respected it though brings back good memories. Back when I was 15 the gates was always open never locked that's before they redid it and made it look prettier but still very original
At 1:31, it shows the Ole Mill, it's in North Little Rock, Arkansas, the area is just as pristine as it is in the movie clip. There is a marker telling how this was filmed in the intro of Gone with the Wind.
I grew up in North Little Rock and went to The Old Mill all the time as a kid. It's still as majestic as ever! if you're ever passing through arkansas, come check it out!
I lived there too. I pretty much grew up in the Levy neighborhood in North Little Rock. Used to go to Lakewood a lot in the late 80’s, 90’s, and the early 2000’s.
Mere inflation-adjusting does not take into account other factors: moviegoing has dramatically dropped since then, and the population has grown bigger. If you consider these three factors, the top #1 is The Sound of Music.
Pablo Costa On pure tickets sold, the most attended film ever. There is no adjusting ticket prices or population tendencies or growths involved with that. On sheer sold tickets, the number 1 film of all time. Period.
Pablo Costa what the fuck does the amount of people that go watch movies in a time period have to do with anything? Thats like saying a movie played in the Sahara Desert was the most watched movie of all time because all of the 8 residents that live there watched it. Its the most stupid thing I've heard in my entire life. Thats an achievement.
raulprima It has EVERYTHING to do with this specific topic of the number one movie all-time, which is arrived at by what movie has sold more tickets, i.e. how many people have seen it, over the theatrical life-time of a movie.
I used to go there when I was a kid! I remember one time I was there with my family and there was this wedding where the groom was dressed kinda like Wesley from princess bride. During the ceremony another guy "kidnapped" the bride and they had this big choreographed sword fight all through the mill! As a 8 yr old I thought it was the coolest thing!
Overblown middle brow kitsch. But very lucrative. Its incredible that Selznick sold his interest in the film in 1942 for half a million. It was his baby and the picture made tens of millions after that.
This is an awesome intro, but I’m legitimately curious: did Gone with the Wind ever actually have an MGM logo? The 1985 and 1995 MGM/UA Home Video VHS and the 1999 Warner Home Video DVD only showed the Selznick logo, as well as seemingly every posting of the opening titles I’ve found on TH-cam. I get that it was produced by Selznick and released by MGM, but I’ve read a number of articles stating how it opened with the MGM lion, and I always assumed it did (I sadly haven’t actually watched Gone with the Wind), being an iconic logo paired with an iconic film, but going off of all of the aforementioned prints I’m guessing MGM’s logo presence didn’t extend beyond an in-credit notice. (The Selznick logo is great too, though)
I was actually fortunate enough to see a special, limited rel-release of this film in 1999. It was actually an original print, with everything intact, including the intermission soundtrack. The film was also completely in square format, as it was originally presented. I can confirm that there was no MGM logo, cause I was looking for that myself. All there was, was the drum-roll and film start.
There never was an MGM lion in the film. I have read that MGM asked for the rights to release the film in exchange for allowing Clark Gable to make it. It is indeed a David Selznick production all the way.
The only issue I have with this movie is one never brought up. I hate how brown and dead the landscape is with very few trees. You can totally tell it was filmed in southern California, defiantly not Georgia.
***** When I was a child here in NYC, there was a 4 o'clock film show that showed after school movies. "King Kong" was shown all week, and we'd watch it every day. The series was called "Million Dollar Movie", and used the music from "Gone With The Wind" as its opening. Whenever I hear this music, I think of "King Kong". (As you seem to remember). GWTW, however, is my favorite movie.
@@theofficialphoenixtv5765 I'll make sure my grandkids watch it regardless of the bans you enforce on people. It's a beautiful film regardless of the attitudes of the time. You can't erase history.
This is a very high quality film in terms of production value. It captivates the audience and lets you get into what it was like in the "good ole days." Unfortunately, this film has almost no historical value whatsoever and offers a dishonest snapshot of what life was actually like during this era. Take it as entertainment, but do not buy into the message Fleming was trying to convince you of. I'd be more than happy to direct you to contemporary scholarship proving my words if you are inclined. Excellent film, less than excellent historicity.
Nick Veccchio: I think you've completely missed several important point about this movie, the first being that it was not intended to be a documentary, or even as fiction a 100% accurate portrayal of the "Old South". It was, rather, simply a love story set against the backdrop of the American Civil War; the love story being the salient issue. And yet, there are parts of the movie that were historically accurate; for example, the great love that some Southerners had for their homes and the great spirit in which they attempted to defend it. This is amply displayed in the scene where Scarlett's father tells her that "...land is the only thing that matters, because it's the only thing that lasts...". As a native of the South, South Carolina in particular, I can attest to this overwhelming feeling of love that I had and still have for the place I grew up on, a place that my father, of Irish heritage, named "Howling Winds".
I for one am not the least bit interested in your damned "contemporary scholarship." For one thing, the film was based on a NOVEL (assuming you know what a novel is) and not an actual history. Another thing: The world of the Civil-War era and today's world are totally different, so don't try to project today's views on a world of 160 years ago. You might try to read Margaret Mitchell's masterpiece. I have done so, and consider it to be one of the finest books I ever read. Read the book, or don't read the book; that is your choice. But PLEASE, do NOT try to convince me that your contemporary scholarship has the last word of authority about "Gone With the Wind!!"
Shut the fuck up asshole. It's a great film. Period. Take your Django Unchained and 12 years a slave and fuck off and be happy with them. Stop trying to erase a historically significant film. Just let me watch my movies in peace and you can watch your historically accurate, less entertaining movies. Deal? Okay then.
When movie patrons first saw this opening title at the end of 1939, they KNEW this was going to be the most important movie they would ever see- and were willing to sit through almost FOUR HOURS to experience it.
I did not like this movie when I first saw it. I came to appreciate it as the years have moved on. It is a great cinematic epic, however, in my opinion, it is very racist in many parts and lets us know how far we have come as a nation and have far we still have to go. The ending is truly one of if not the worst EVER in a movie!!! "After all, tomorrow is, another day!" Truly corny and ridiculous ending!!!!!!
yep, you would think that....and future generations will look at your view of something and think worse...know the people and know the times and DON'T use your lifetime to frame it. It's uneducated and ill-informed.
I first saw the film when I was 19. I hated Scarlett O'hara because I thought she was a total bitch. As I grew more mature, I realized that she wasn't a bad person, she was trying to manipulate society to her liking because she was smart and wanted more in life than just being a housewife or a standard woman in those days.
One of the most iconic title sequences ever. Glorious old 3 strip technicolor. Max Stiener's magnificent score.
That opening title sequence flattens everything in its wake...
TCM released it to theaters a year ago. First time I ever saw it on a big screen, cried like a baby when it was over. The greatest epic film ever made.
+Steven Smyth I'm so jealous. I didn't get to see it when it was re-released recently. Next chance I get, I definitely will. Definitely would be epic on the big screen.
absolutely
Butterfly McQueen! Everyone loved you!Great Theme! Max Steiner, you were outstanding! Wish it didn't end so abruptly.
I saw this at the age of 5, the first time after being very sick and I absolutely fell in love with the picture. An absolutely stunning film. Certainly are not made like this anymore.
Inoubliable. Marquant. Rarement un film aura autant été identifiable grâce à un thème musical.
Merci Max Steiner !! Merci David O.Selznick.
I was born in Conway Arkansas and only lived 30 minutes from The Old Mill pictured in this opening film. ❤️ Love it there. Arkansas history!
I just saw it on a video, it is the last surviving structure used in the movie. I am curious as to how the producers knew about it.
My favorite movie favorite actress Vivien Leigh and favorite book
As a Virginian I can say this is one of the best films ever!
As a Virginian, what do you think of the Movie Glory?
@@theofficialphoenixtv5765 it is a great film 1989.
@@theofficialphoenixtv5765 I love the movie Glory with slight reservations!
This is the best movie of all time! No other movie could surpass it!
One of the most arresting, memorable themes ever composed for a film. Max Steiner at his most inspired.
love love love this movie and titanic both amazing epic blockbusters i had such a crush on clarke gable 😍
one of my favorite classic films, and I'm black.
That just ain't fittin. Ain't fittin.
@@joejohnson6733 hahahaha great!
@@joejohnson6733 it ain't fittin
press x to doubt
I live in Canada and I love this film I watched it two days ago . And Clark Gable used to duck hunt like one hour from Winnipeg. He was in Manitoba like in 1939 duck hunting
I can bawl my eyes out at the opening every time and I have seen it a million times
On September 9, 1939, Selznick, his wife, Irene, investor John "Jock" Whitney and film editor Hal Kern drove out to Riverside, California to preview it at the Fox Theatre. The film was still a rough cut at this stage, missing completed titles and lacking special optical effects. It ran for four hours and twenty-five minutes, but would later be cut down to under four hours for its proper release. A double bill of Hawaiian Nights and Beau Geste was playing, and after the first feature it was announced that the theater would be screening a preview; the audience were informed they could leave but would not be readmitted once the film had begun, nor would phone calls be allowed once the theater had been sealed. When the title appeared on the screen the audience cheered, and after it had finished it received a standing ovation. In his biography of Selznick, David Thomson wrote that the audience's response before the film had even started "was the greatest moment of (Selznick's) life.”
Olivia has just passed on at age 104. What a woman & actress, she was & will not be forgotten!!
Vivien Leigh and Hattie McDaniel are the heart and soul of the movie. Without them, it would not have endured.
Museum piece??? This is perhaps the most important film in cinematic history. We are now at the point where television and movies need to be a required subject in school much like reading the classics. This is where it started. It started with silent films/talkies and people who had the dream to build from nothing what is now Hollywood!
I can listen to this theme all day
Me too ✋️
Chokes me up every damn time!!!!
Same
Ikr! The nostalgia.
One of the best movies of all time.
...and Olivia de Haviland lives on!
Wes Clark and still as beautiful as she can be
She's gone now
Magenta Moon That made me so sad when she died
@@SmithConductor Likewise..she lived an incredible life ..and I loved her as Melanie Hamilton
The Old Mill it shows is the North Little Rock Arkansas that's where I'm from... The old mill l is still there and visited tour attraction everybody in North Little Rock has been there and goes there they redone in now they got like a concession stand I believe in bathrooms people get married there my sister got married there fantastic place to go hang out before they have the lot gates and I think just certain hours you can visit free. I'm 66 years old now and back when I was 15 we used to go there and hang out and party and do what we wanted we always take care of it and respected it though brings back good memories. Back when I was 15 the gates was always open never locked that's before they redid it and made it look prettier but still very original
R.I.P. Olivia De Havilland (1916-2020)
1939..what a great year for film!..'GWTW', 'The Wizard of Oz'..'The Grapes of Wrath'...
i love this move n soundtruck :) so much magical n beautiful :)
0:01 When I saw this recently in the theater, my heart rate sped up to match the tempo of that drum roll.
was lucky enough to see The Old Mill in person today! :)
I spent most of my childhood in North Little Rock, Arkansas.
At 1:31, it shows the Ole Mill, it's in North Little Rock, Arkansas, the area is just as pristine as it is in the movie clip. There is a marker telling how this was filmed in the intro of Gone with the Wind.
Great movie!
I live not too far from the old mill (1:32). It's in North Little Rock, AR.
1:31 I live about 5 minutes from there.
Parents even got married there.
Cool. I love the skeletor bridges around there.
Yeah me too lol I can walk there do it all the time it’s a gorgeous place the old mill I’ve taken lots of school pics there
I was proposed to there.
I was rejected heartlessly there. I told her I loved her... she said "Frankly dude, I don't give a damn".
I'm 1 mile from the mill
I grew up in North Little Rock and went to The Old Mill all the time as a kid. It's still as majestic as ever! if you're ever passing through arkansas, come check it out!
I lived there too. I pretty much grew up in the Levy neighborhood in North Little Rock. Used to go to Lakewood a lot in the late 80’s, 90’s, and the early 2000’s.
@@mridlon1634 small world! i grew up in Levy too and went to Lakewood in that same time frame.
I'll never forget miss Pitypat.
When you adjust for inflation, Gone with The Wind has made more money than any other film in history.
Mere inflation-adjusting does not take into account other factors: moviegoing has dramatically dropped since then, and the population has grown bigger. If you consider these three factors, the top #1 is The Sound of Music.
VERY TRUE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pablo Costa On pure tickets sold, the most attended film ever. There is no adjusting ticket prices or population tendencies or growths involved with that. On sheer sold tickets, the number 1 film of all time. Period.
Pablo Costa what the fuck does the amount of people that go watch movies in a time period have to do with anything? Thats like saying a movie played in the Sahara Desert was the most watched movie of all time because all of the 8 residents that live there watched it. Its the most stupid thing I've heard in my entire life. Thats an achievement.
raulprima It has EVERYTHING to do with this specific topic of the number one movie all-time, which is arrived at by what movie has sold more tickets, i.e. how many people have seen it, over the theatrical life-time of a movie.
That old mill still stands to this day.
Have you ever been to North Little Rock, Arkansas?
I used to go there when I was a kid! I remember one time I was there with my family and there was this wedding where the groom was dressed kinda like Wesley from princess bride. During the ceremony another guy "kidnapped" the bride and they had this big choreographed sword fight all through the mill! As a 8 yr old I thought it was the coolest thing!
@@mridlon1634 no I've never been. I've seen it on TH-cam.
@@dylanspencer5395 that sounds awesome.
@@adamrenfrow
You should check it out. It’s at the the Lakewood neighborhood in North Little Rock, Arkansas.
It still is the most beautiful romantic film ever made
I’m from Arkansas and I visited the old Mill. For those who don’t know, the old mill is in the opening scene.
Best movie ever!!
Titanic is the greatest film ever
But THIS INTRO .... the best ever
omg Titanic sucks thats not even James Camerons best movie Terminator Aliens and Terminator 2 judgement day are way better especially T2
Avatar is slightly cooler, but this intro is epic
I love this movie so much one of my favourite movies ever
It's the Old Mill!! Omg that's what it looked like in 1939?!?!
Overblown middle brow kitsch. But very lucrative. Its incredible that Selznick sold his interest in the film in 1942 for half a million. It was his baby and the picture made tens of millions after that.
Absolute chills!
RIP Olivia De Havilland
Rick I will be going to Little Rock , Arkansas to see that Mill shown at the beginning.
This is the standard by which all other films shall be judged...
this opening is what made into movies
perfect music
I could watch it in 3-D even.
3D? You'd be continuously trying to duck Mammy's hooters.
RIP: Olivia de Havilland
Rip Melanie
1:32 scene we went there it's called the Old Mill in North Little Rock Arkansas beautiful park.
Gone with the Wind, thank God!
Good art doesn't gets older.
I live in Brazil.
The beloved film is now the most infamous banned movie of all time
This is an awesome intro, but I’m legitimately curious: did Gone with the Wind ever actually have an MGM logo? The 1985 and 1995 MGM/UA Home Video VHS and the 1999 Warner Home Video DVD only showed the Selznick logo, as well as seemingly every posting of the opening titles I’ve found on TH-cam. I get that it was produced by Selznick and released by MGM, but I’ve read a number of articles stating how it opened with the MGM lion, and I always assumed it did (I sadly haven’t actually watched Gone with the Wind), being an iconic logo paired with an iconic film, but going off of all of the aforementioned prints I’m guessing MGM’s logo presence didn’t extend beyond an in-credit notice. (The Selznick logo is great too, though)
I was actually fortunate enough to see a special, limited rel-release of this film in 1999. It was actually an original print, with everything intact, including the intermission soundtrack. The film was also completely in square format, as it was originally presented. I can confirm that there was no MGM logo, cause I was looking for that myself. All there was, was the drum-roll and film start.
There never was an MGM lion in the film. I have read that MGM asked for the rights to release the film in exchange for allowing Clark Gable to make it. It is indeed a David Selznick production all the way.
It’s so sad that people now want to ban this movie. They obviously didn’t get it.
One word- EPIC
Olivia De haviland still alive... wow
Man I had to check. She is 😳
Sadly, it’s no longer true. 😔
She passed on in 2020
That musical buildup at the beginning always gets me
So this is where Tarantino got that infamous "MISSISIPI" idea from :D
How long was this movie again?
Seven minutes short of FOUR HOURS- minus the "Intermission" in the middle, which would probably make it a little over four hours, DJ.
About 4 hours long
3hrs and 40mins.
Minus the overture, intermission, entre act, and exit music, it's about 217 mins
The old mill looked so different back then omg
The only issue I have with this movie is one never brought up. I hate how brown and dead the landscape is with very few trees. You can totally tell it was filmed in southern California, defiantly not Georgia.
Beautiful
Gone with the wind was the favored movie from the Fuehrer.
its the million dollar movie
yep born and will die here
***** When I was a child here in NYC, there was a 4 o'clock film show
that showed after school movies. "King Kong" was shown all week, and we'd watch it every day. The series was called "Million Dollar Movie", and used the music from
"Gone With The Wind" as its opening. Whenever I hear this music, I think of
"King Kong". (As you seem to remember).
GWTW, however, is my favorite movie.
Why cut it off?
Before you know it they'll be trying to ban this movie. ☹
Dont act like there isnt a good reason for wanting to do so.
@@theofficialphoenixtv5765 I'll make sure my grandkids watch it regardless of the bans you enforce on people. It's a beautiful film regardless of the attitudes of the time. You can't erase history.
@@theofficialphoenixtv5765 Oh look...the " cancel culture" has been heard from...lol...you're a FOOL:((
1:33 the old mill
Best movie from 1939 besides the wizard of oz
Is this the Ben Hur opening
That opening score is similar to good bad and ugly s score
This is a very high quality film in terms of production value. It captivates the audience and lets you get into what it was like in the "good ole days." Unfortunately, this film has almost no historical value whatsoever and offers a dishonest snapshot of what life was actually like during this era. Take it as entertainment, but do not buy into the message Fleming was trying to convince you of. I'd be more than happy to direct you to contemporary scholarship proving my words if you are inclined. Excellent film, less than excellent historicity.
Total rubbish Nick, Fleming did no such thing. It is a movie made from a novel so please read it and see what I mean. Cheers.
Nick Veccchio: I think you've completely missed several important point about this movie, the first being that it was not intended to be a documentary, or even as fiction a 100% accurate portrayal of the "Old South". It was, rather, simply a love story set against the backdrop of the American Civil War; the love story being the salient issue. And yet, there are parts of the movie that were historically accurate; for example, the great love that some Southerners had for their homes and the great spirit in which they attempted to defend it. This is amply displayed in the scene where Scarlett's father tells her that "...land is the only thing that matters, because it's the only thing that lasts...". As a native of the South, South Carolina in particular, I can attest to this overwhelming feeling of love that I had and still have for the place I grew up on, a place that my father, of Irish heritage, named "Howling Winds".
I for one am not the least bit interested in your damned "contemporary scholarship." For one thing, the film was based on a NOVEL (assuming you know what a novel is) and not an actual history. Another thing: The world of the Civil-War era and today's world are totally different, so don't try to project today's views on a world of 160 years ago. You might try to read Margaret Mitchell's masterpiece. I have done so, and consider it to be one of the finest books I ever read. Read the book, or don't read the book; that is your choice. But PLEASE, do NOT try to convince me that your contemporary scholarship has the last word of authority about "Gone With the Wind!!"
all I gotta say is I don't know nuthin bout burthin no bebies!
Shut the fuck up asshole. It's a great film. Period. Take your Django Unchained and 12 years a slave and fuck off and be happy with them. Stop trying to erase a historically significant film.
Just let me watch my movies in peace and you can watch your historically accurate, less entertaining movies. Deal? Okay then.
Un clasico
I saw this in a revival theater about 10 years ago. it stands up as a museum piece, but, at least for me, not much more.
When movie patrons first saw this opening title at the end of 1939, they KNEW this was going to be the most important movie they would ever see- and were willing to sit through almost FOUR HOURS to experience it.
I agree
Reading this book is why I left the Democrat party
It's a good movie but a piece of propaganda
I did not like this movie when I first saw it. I came to appreciate it as the years have moved on. It is a great cinematic epic, however, in my opinion, it is very racist in many parts and lets us know how far we have come as a nation and have far we still have to go. The ending is truly one of if not the worst EVER in a movie!!! "After all, tomorrow is, another day!" Truly corny and ridiculous ending!!!!!!
I don't care how old you are, you sound like a crazy person.
yep, you would think that....and future generations will look at your view of something and think worse...know the people and know the times and DON'T use your lifetime to frame it. It's uneducated and ill-informed.
Rex TexasAggie Me?
If you think the ending is "corny and ridiculous", and you're all upset about "racism", then you don't exactly "appreciate it".
I first saw the film when I was 19. I hated Scarlett O'hara because I thought she was a total bitch. As I grew more mature, I realized that she wasn't a bad person, she was trying to manipulate society to her liking because she was smart and wanted more in life than just being a housewife or a standard woman in those days.
I live in Arkansas and thr Old Mill is the last standing prop from 'Gone With The Wind'