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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.
- 10 The Horror Maestro’s Public Service Film
- 9 The Film Saved from The Nazis
- 8 The Pandemic Leads to A Lost Film Being Found
- 7 A Controversial 1960s Crime Drama
- 6 The Previously Unknown Mickey Rooney Film
- 5 Home Movies from The Altamont
- 4 A Lost Orson Welles Curio
- 3 A Long-Lost Critic Favorite
- 2 A House Clearance Unearths The Gold Diggers
- 1 Hollywood’s Earliest Sex Symbol
George A. Romero is a legend in the horror film genre. His 1968 independent production Night of the Living Dead kickstarted both his directing career and his “Dead” series, which grew to include the acclaimed Dawn of the Dead (1978) and fan favorites Day of the Dead (1985) and Land of the Dead(2005). So if you’re a charity looking to commission a p...
In 1931, a Polish husband-and-wife filmmaker duo, Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, filmed a surrealist short with strong anti-fascist themes. It was called Europa, and it was made to reflect the dread and horror they felt as Europe was slowly moving toward World War II. In 1938, the Themersons moved to Paris, leaving Europa and four other films in ...
It’s hard to find any positives about the coronavirus pandemic, but perhaps more free time at home is one of them. Olivia Babler, the director of film transfer operations at the Chicago Film Archives, would probably say so. Stuck at home in early 2020, Babler used the extra time to finally go through a large number of film reels that had come from ...
In the days before the Motion Picture Association of America came up with their now-familiar rating system (G, PG, R, etc.), the Catholic Legion of Decency held a lot of power in the film industry. The group was formed in 1934 to identify objectionable content in films, and a “C” rating (a condemnation) by the Legion could hurt a film’s box office ...
Mickey Rooney is an acting legend, first appearing onscreen as a child and racking up 343 acting credits in his long and varied career. With so many films under his belt, it’s understandable that some might slip through the cracks. And that’s what happened to the 1975 slasher film The Intruder. In 2016, Harry Guerro set out from his New Jersey base...
The Rolling Stones’ performance at San Francisco’s Altamont Speedway in 1969 is notorious due to an interaction between the Hell’s Angels (who had been hired for security) and a fan that ended with the fan being stabbed to death. The incident was famously captured in the film Gimme Shelter, but new footage from that day has emerged. In 2002, The Li...
Home video is something we take for granted in this day and age, but in the early 1970s, this was a new and exciting technology. An early home VCR, Avco’s Cartrivision, went on the market in 1972 and commissioned some original productions to entice buyers. Among these were six short films by Orson Welles. Unfortunately, when Cartrivision flopped, t...
In the 1960s, Joe Anderson was a young film professor at the University of Ohio. A fan of international cinema, particularly Italian Neorealism, Anderson recruited students and volunteers to film in rural Appalachian communities in a European style. The result was Spring Night, Summer Night, a tender drama about two step-siblings who fall in love. ...
The Gold Diggers was a popular 1919 Broadway play that led to a Warner Bros. film series. The first film in the series, 1923’s The Gold Diggers, had long been considered among the many lost silent films. Incredibly, a poster on the silent film forum Nitrateville announced in 2019 that he had found the film near his home in central England. The sell...
Theda Bara was Hollywood’s original sex symbol, wearing risqué outfits for her time while pioneering the “Vamp” image of a man-hunting woman. Unfortunately, most of her films have not survived. Her 1917 version of Cleopatrais one of the most sought-after lost films, with the last known prints having fallen victim to vault fires. So it was with some...
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Sep 10, 2022 · From a Hitchcock movie to a John Wayne western, we break down the sad history of lost films.
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The terrifying lost film that inspired the look of the Babadook. Working with libraries and digital archives, we’ve added reviews for more than 100 lost films from dozens of newspapers and...
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 archive. [ 1 ] . Films can be wholly or partially lost for a number of reasons. Early films were not thought to have value beyond their theatrical run, so many were discarded afterward.
Mar 5, 2022 · A high percentage of lost movies have never been found, presumably because no one is actively looking for them. Luckily, copies of a few lost movies were located, several years or decades after they disappeared.
Oct 5, 2022 · The phenomenon of lost films mostly applies to the silent era, as film preservation began to improve as the decades went on, thanks to film being seen as a more worthwhile art form.
