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On August 10, 1965, a fire erupted in Vault 7, a storage facility at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio (MGM) backlot (now Sony Pictures Studios) in Culver City, California. [1] It was caused by an electrical short that ignited flammable stored nitrate film. The initial explosion reportedly killed at least one person, and the resulting fire ...
The last known copy of the film was destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire, along with hundreds of other rare early films, making it one of the most sought-after lost silent films. Film historians William K. Everson and David Bradley claim they saw the film in the early 1950s, and an MGM vault inventory from 1955 shows the print being stored in ...
The last known copy of the film was destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire. [5] Before quitting acting, Tichenor made an appearance in about twelve different movies. Her last known film appearance was a small role in Tod Browing's 1928 mystery film West of Zanzibar, starring Lon Chaney and Lionel Barrymore. [4]
1965 MGM vault fire; S. 1965 Searcy missile silo fire This page was last edited on 5 June 2023, at 19:59 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Lon Chaney in London After Midnight (1927), one of the most sought-after lost films, whose last known print was destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire. A set of production stills survives. A lost film is a feature or short film in which the original negative or copies are not known to exist in any studio archive, private collection, or public ...
Only a single nine-minute reel [3] and an additional 45-second excerpt [4] [5] are currently known to exist of this otherwise lost film, the only complete copy of which was destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire. [6] [7] [8]
First National fire in 1933, the British and Dominions Imperial Studios fire in 1936, the 1937 Fox vault fire, the 1965 MGM vault fire, [1] and the 1914 Lubin vault fire. Black-and-white film prints judged to be otherwise worthless were sometimes incinerated to salvage the meager scrap value of the silver image particles in their emulsions . [ 2 ]
The original copy was destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire and was considered lost for 13 years until another copy was found in 1978 in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. [70] [76] A Reckless Romeo: Roscoe Arbuckle: Roscoe Arbuckle, Al St. John: Found in an unmarked canister at the Norwegian Film Institute in 1998, alongside The Cook. [77] 1918