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Many films of the silent era have been lost. [1] The Library of Congress estimates 75% of all silent films are lost forever. About 10,919 American silent films were produced, but only 2,749 of them still exist in some complete form, either as an original American 35mm version, a foreign release, or as a lower-quality copy.
The Dawson Film Find (DFF) was the accidental discovery in 1978 of 372 film titles preserved in 533 reels of silent-era nitrate films in the Klondike Gold Rush town of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. [1] The reels had been buried under an abandoned hockey rink in 1929 and included lost films of feature movies and newsreels .
The Mountain Eagle was the second film to be directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1926; the silent melodrama has been described by the British Film Institute as their "most wanted" lost film. [9] London After Midnight , starring Lon Chaney and directed by Tod Browning in 1927, was a silent-era mystery-thriller pseudo-vampire film that is now ...
The silent version of this film exists. The Vitaphone discs for the sound version survive, but matching film elements are lost. Bride of the Regiment: John Francis Dillon: Vivienne Segal, Walter Pidgeon: All-Technicolor musical drama, a twenty second fragment was located in 2023. The complete soundtrack survives on Vitaphone discs. Good News ...
Huggins, who grew up in Kansas City, Kansas, found a lost silent film featuring the actress known as “The It Girl.” It’s a comedy short — just 11 minutes long — called “The Pill ...
Most lost films originate from the silent film and early talkie era, from about 1894 to 1930. [7] Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation estimates that more than 90% of American films produced before 1929 are lost, [8] and the Library of Congress estimates that 75% of all silent films are lost forever. [9]
CHICAGO — Last week at the Gene Siskel Film Center, before a near-capacity crowd, director Edward Sedgwick’s five-reel silent film “The First Degree” said hello again in first public ...
A still from the film, featuring Charles Murray Several scenes from the film. The Pill Pounder is a 1923 silent film starring Charles Murray and featuring Clara Bow. The film is 20 minutes long. It was a lost film until a print was found at an auction in Omaha, Nebraska in 2023. [1] [2]