Deleted scenes on DVD
Ive read a lot on these boards about deleted scenes
are any of these on any of the DVDs?
Hardly.
The tape used for films was expensive and all leftover material on the tapes was erased when given away for other projects. There was some guaranteed period of time that the outtakes were preserved for possible further editing purposes but that hardly was longer than ten years; if there ever were many outakes, they became erased in 1974 - all this from something I read several years ago.
"Hello I'm Frank, give her a donut"
"The tape used for films was expensive"
Huh, this was 1964, and everything, even most TV, was shot on film
so expensive I cant imagine just throwing anything away
Yes: this was shot on film, not tape. In 1964, videotape was barely used: generally only for sports (the first instant replay was in December 1963) and for delaying live TV broadcasts for showing in the Mountain and Pacific time zones.
Some of what people talk about as "deleted" scenes were never - so far as I can tell - actually shot. They were in the script and may have been rehearsed, but it seems that some of them were never shot at all.
To the extent there are outtakes, I think the film was discarded a long time ago. Until recent years, it was pretty much standard (if not quite universal) practice to throw away exposed but unused film. Nobody conceived that someday there'd be DVD packages with out-takes on them. Indeed, entire movies - those that weren't popular enough to convince people they'd get second runs and revival runs in theaters - were tossed out.
Deciding not to shoot scenes does, I suppose, have something to do with the cost of film stock. Discarding shot film does not. I mean, it's not like you can reuse it.