anyone remember the roadshow version?

I saw the 1962 version in its initial roadshow release, and I wonder if anyone else remembers the beginning/ending scene that is deleted from present editions (the VHS and the TCM version); it serves as a "framing" device and completes Richard Haydn's narration that begins the currently available version of the picture.

As I recall, the roadshow version begins with the character of Brown being discovered on Pitcairn by an American crew that has, like the Bounty before them, stumbled upon the place by accident years after the search for the Bounty has been suspended. He is the only white survivor of the mutiny, and tells his story to the American officers as a flashback. The narration almost immediately shifts to the title that begins the current version, "Portsmouth Harbor, England, December 23, 1787."

At the end of the picture, after Christian's death, the shot of the Bounty sliding off the reef and sinking dissolves back to old Brown on Pitcairn. The officers ask him if he wishes to accompany them back to "civilization" and he declines. They then sail thoughtfully away from paradise, and the picture fades out quietly to "The End."

The currently available version is the one that opened the film's popular price run at neighborhood theaters when the reserved seat version finished its "10 performances weekly" run (usually at ticket prices of around $2 - $2.50). I believe it was trimmed down to 3 hrs so as to allow the neighborhood venues to squeeze in more "continuous performances at popular prices," as they used to say.

Does anyone else have a memory of having seen this version? I think it would only have been about 10 minutes longer. In all probability, the deleted footage is long gone.