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Oct 21, 2014 · Hollywood. This 1923 silent comedy – following a hopeful actress travelling to California with dreams of becoming a star – was one of the first Hollywood movies about Hollywood. While its lead ...
- 75% of Silent-Era Films Are Lost
- How Do These Films Become Lost?
- Notable Lost Films
- The Lucky Ones
- Why Film Preservation Is So Important
The same cannot be said of another type of film, however, in one of the greatest tragedies to have graced cinema: lost films. Unlike Batgirl, which never made it past the all-seeing eye of Hollywood producers, lost films were completed and released just like anything else, but now no surviving copy of them remains. Reasons for this vary from proble...
There are many reasons why films became lost, but chief among them was intentional destruction. Film preservation was not an important consideration during the early days of cinema (films were still viewed as a commercial product rather than art, as decided by the US Supreme Court in 1915), and after they had completed their theatrical run, it was ...
It's a true shame because there are several lost films that hold great historical significance to critics. Just a few examples include: The Mountain Eagle (the second film directed by Alfred Hitchcock), London After Midnight (a horror film by future Dracula director Tod Browning), Too Many Crooks (Laurence Olivier's screen debut), Two Crowded Hours...
Thankfully, many films that were feared lost have been found. One of the greatest examples is Wings, the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, which was considered lost for decades until a copy was found in the Cinémathèque Française archive in 1992. Its realistic depiction of aerial combat that involved real aircraft being flown by...
But the tragedy of lost films extends far beyond the simple inconvenience of no longer being able to watch them. Preservation is essential for any medium, and being able to reflect and build upon their direct ancestors is vital for all creators who wish to develop their craft. Art is a constant cycle of repetition and iteration, with artists taking...
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The greatest lost films, featuring work that’s fallen off the radar by Stanley Kubrick, Francis Ford Coppola, Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard and more.
For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of incomplete or partially lost films.
YearFilmDirector1895Young Griffo vs. Battling Charles ...Otway Latham18961896L'Arroseur (a.k.a. Watering the Flowers)Georges Méliès1896Georges Méliès- The Earliest Charles Dickens Adaption Was Just Forgotten About. Earliest Dickens film – The Death of Poor Joe (1901) | BFI National Archive. Charles Dickens’ works have been adapted to film many times—“A Christmas Carol” has been co-opted by every cartoon and sitcom known to man—but the earliest adaption was actually thought lost up until a few years ago.
- The Pro-Gay Movie Hidden In Another Movie. Paul & Kurt – Different From The Others (Gay Themed, Silent Film) In 1919, Conrad Veidt, famous for his roles in The Man Who Laughs and The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari, starred in Different From the Others, a German film that had the audacity to show homosexuality as an okay thing, with the two male leads in a romantic relationship.
- A Fatty Arbuckle/Buster Keaton Movie Was Found In Norway. Silent Hollywood Movie Take on a California American Restaurant Kitchen, 1918 Fatty Arbuckle.
- Wake In Fright Was Marked For Destruction. Wake In Fright, or as it was known in some markets, Outback, is considered a piece of Australian cinema history, despite being relatively recent, having been released in 1971.
Oct 23, 2024 · Spanning decades and crossing genres - including drama, comedy, horror, and science-fiction - these beloved movies based on books all have one thing in common: they turned their source material into cinema that stands the test of time.
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