Once these fragments were rediscovered, they were first seen again in documentary short films by Roberto Kahane. These documentary shorts were, for many years, the only way to glimpse the scenes filmed by Silvino. In addition to being dispersed in different films and archives, these fragments filmed by one of the most talented Brazilian filmmakers of the silent period are also not digitized and accessible.
No good quality digital copy of the film exists, and it currently circulates through a digitized VHS tape that does no justice to the incredible photography within the original work. This Brazilian musical comedy starring Carmen Miranda, among other great performers of the time, is the oldest preserved feature from the genre.
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The film is widely seen, including in film schools, in a miserable digitized version of an old VHS tape. The only circulating digital copy of this chanchada is sourced from a DVD that was sold by mail in the early s by the collector Paulo Tardin, who had a rare but incomplete 16mm copy of the film.
Veneno is one of the best Brazilian film noirs and it is one of the last works of gifted director of photography Edgar Brasil, who shot Limite Featuring famous star Anselmo Duarte in the role of a villain, this interesting film remains unknown largely due to the absence of any kind of digital copy.
This film in five episodes presents a very curious case of preservation and digitization. Several other films by filmmaker Miguel Borges, in particular, are in a similar or worse preservation situation. Even so, the film is in need of urgent restoration treatment. Bossa Nova survives only in deteriorated film materials, and there are currently no exhibition copies of the film either in film or digital formats.
