This is from the Old Forum Archives:
https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Forum/Forum_Archives/200009.txtDate: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:28:04 EDT
From: Cam Warren
Subject: Re: Takeoff film
Some years ago Joe Gervais tracked down Sid Marshall in
Australia, who shot the original footage. Joe said the film was
in very bad shape, patched together with Scotch tape, and broke
more than once when run through the projector. I don't recall
if the 99's actually got the original, but - as you say - it
turned up missing after being borrowed by someone. The home
splicing job likely accounts for the out-of-sequence scenes.
Cam Warren
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From Ric
What scenes do you think are out of sequence? [End of excerpt from Old Forum]
So far that is all I have found in the Forum.
At first I was excited by the thought of what might have been left on the cutting room floor. But on reflection my hunch right now is that Syd Marshall himself put together all of his AE footage, pretty much in chronological order. What he left out would have been what he considered non-AE footage, which might of course have some interest for us, but probably not too much, as far as AE is concerned.
Marshall did assert in that 1970 interview for the Australian Women's Weekly (kudos to Randy Conrad for that link!) that he considered his film to be history belonging to the Australian people, not to be sold to the highest bidder. In light of that it wd be of interest to learn where it wound up after his death in May 1975, and how well it is being preserved or even restored.
I will add a couple of footnotes on Marshall in a separate post.