List of lost films
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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.
Films may go missing for a number of reasons. One major contributing factor is the common use of nitrate film until the early 1950s. This type of film is highly flammable, and there have been several devastating fires, such as the 1937 Fox vault fire, the 1967 MGM Vault fire, and the Universal Pictures fire in 1924.[1] 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] Films have disappeared when production companies went bankrupt.[2] Occasionally, a studio would remake a film and destroy the earlier version.[2] Silent films in particular were once seen as having no further commercial value and were simply junked to clear out expensive storage space.[3]
This is necessarily an incomplete list. Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation claims that "half of all American films made before 1950 and over 90% of films made before 1929 are lost forever."[4] Deutsche Kinemathek estimates that 80-90% of silent films are gone;[5] the film archive's own list contains over 3500 lost films. A study by the Library of Congress states that 75% of all silent films are now lost.[6] While others dispute whether the percentage is quite that high,[7] it is impractical to enumerate any but the more notable and those that can be sourced.
Silent films
1890s
Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes | Ref |
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1896 | Arrivée d'un train gare de Vincennes | Georges Méliès | A French short documentary. | [8] | |
L'Arroseur (aka Watering the Flowers) | Georges Méliès | A short comedy. | [9] | ||
Barque sortant du port de Trouville | Georges Méliès | [10] | |||
Bateau-mouche sur la Seine | Georges Méliès | [11] | |||
Bébé et fillettes | Georges Méliès | A short documentary. | [12] | ||
Les Blanchisseuses | Georges Méliès | A short documentary. | [13] | ||
Bois de Boulogne (Porte de Madrid) | Georges Méliès | A short documentary. | [14] | ||
Bois de Boulogne (Touring Club) | Georges Méliès | A short documentary. | [15] | ||
Boulevard des Italiens | Georges Méliès | A short documentary. | [16] | ||
Campement de bohémiens (The Bohemian Encampment) | Georges Méliès | A short documentary. | [17] | ||
Les chevaux de bois | Georges Méliès | [18] | |||
Le chiffonnier | Georges Méliès | ||||
Couronnement de la rosière | Georges Méliès | [20] | |||
Déchargement de bateaux | Georges Méliès | [21] | |||
Jardinier brûlant des herbes | Georges Méliès | [22] | |||
Jetée et Plage de Trouville, 1st and 2nd parts | Georges Méliès | [23][24] | |||
Jour de marché à Trouville | Georges Méliès | [25] | |||
1899 | The Jeffries–Sharkey Contest | William Brady, Tom O'Rourke | Jim Jeffries, Tom Sharkey | American Mutoscope and Biograph film of heavyweight championship bout, 135 minutes in length, first film shot in artificial light. | [26] |
1900s
Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes | Ref |
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1903 | Hiawatha, the Messiah of the Ojibway | Joe Rosenthal | Believed to be the first Canadian fiction film. | [27] | |
1907 | Salaviinanpolttajat | Louis Sparre Teuvo Puro | Teppo Raikas Teuvo Puro Jussi Snellman Eero Kilpi Axel Rautio | The first Finnish fiction film. Some sources also consider it to be the first Russian fiction film, as Finland was a part of the Russian Empire until 1917. | [28] |
1908 | Bobby's Kodak | Wallace McCutcheon, Sr. | Robert Harron, Edward Dillon | First starring role for then-child actor Robert "Bobby" Harron. | [29] |
The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays | Francis Boggs, Otis Turner | L. Frank Baum | First adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and several of its sequels. Shown only in roadshow engagements as part of a live theater presentation, the print decomposed and was discarded. | ||
The Music Master | Wallace McCutcheon, Jr. | D. W. Griffith | Most of D. W. Griffith's early appearances as an actor in Biograph films have been preserved, minus this title. | [30] |
1910s
1920s
Sound films
- From 1929 on, films are "all talking" unless otherwise specified.
1920s
1930s
Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes | Ref |
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1930 | Alf's Button | W. P. Kellino | Tubby Edlin, Alf Goddard | Gaumont British film with Pathecolor sequences. | |
An Elastic Affair | Alfred Hitchcock | Short film made by Hitchcock for awards ceremony at the London Palladium in January 1930. | [40] | ||
The Big Fight | Walter Lang | Lola Lane, Ralph Ince | |||
Big Money | Russell Mack | Eddie Quillan, Robert Armstrong | |||
The Big Party | John G. Blystone | Sue Carol, Dixie Lee | [32] | ||
Bride of the Regiment | John Francis Dillon | Vivienne Segal, Walter Pidgeon | All Technicolor musical drama, only the soundtrack survives on Vitaphone discs. | [32] | |
Cameo Kirby | Irving Cummings | J. Harold Murray, Norma Terris | [32] | ||
The Case of Sergeant Grischa | Herbert Brenon | Chester Morris | Academy Award nominee for Best Sound. | ||
The Cat Creeps | Rupert Julian | Helen Twelvetrees, Raymond Hackett | |||
The Cave of the Silken Web II | Dan Duyu | Yin Mingzhu | Silent. Chinese film. Original title: 续盘丝洞. Sequel to the 1927 The Cave of the Silken Web (which itself had been thought to have been lost, but was rediscovered in 2013). | ||
The Climax | Renaud Hoffman | Jean Hersholt and Kathryn Crawford | |||
College Lovers | John G. Adolfi | Marion Nixon, Jack Whiting | Musical comedy | [32] | |
Courage | Archie Mayo | Marian Nixon, Leon Janney | |||
Crazy That Way | Hamilton MacFadden | Kenneth MacKenna, Joan Bennett | |||
The Dude Wrangler | Richard Thorpe | Lina Basquette, Tom Keene | |||
Dumbbells In Ermine | John G. Adolfi | Robert Armstrong, Barbara Kent | |||
The Eyes of the World | Henry King | John Holland, Una Merkel | |||
Fellers | Austin Fay, Arthur Higgins | Arthur Tauchert, Les Coney | An Australian comedy. | [41] | |
The Furies | Alan Crosland | Lois Wilson, H. B. Warner | |||
The Girl of the Golden West | John Francis Dillon | Ann Harding, James Rennie | |||
The Golden Calf | Millard Webb | Jack Mulhall, Sue Carol | |||
The Gorilla | Bryan Foy | Joe Frisco, Walter Pidgeon | |||
The Grand Parade | Fred C. Newmeyer | Helen Twelvetrees, Fred Scott | |||
Hide Out | Reginald Barker | James Murray, Kathryn Crawford | |||
Hit the Deck | Luther Reed | Jack Oakie, Polly Walker | Part Technicolor musical comedy. | ||
Hold Everything | Roy Del Ruth | Winnie Lightner, Joe E. Brown | All Technicolor musical comedy. The complete soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs. | [32] | |
In the Next Room | Edward F. Cline | Jack Mulhall, Alice Day | |||
Just for a Song | Gareth Gundrey | Lillian Hall-Davis, Roy Royston | Gainsborough British film with colour sequences. | ||
Kismet | John Francis Dillon | Otis Skinner, Loretta Young | A lavish costume drama in the early widescreen process known as Vitascope. The complete soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs. | [42] | |
Knowing Men | Elinor Glyn | Carl Brisson, Elissa Landi | The second British sound feature in colour. A B.I.P. film. | ||
Leathernecking | Edward F. Cline | Irene Dunne, Ken Murray | Dunne's film debut. Part Technicolor musical comedy. | ||
Let's Go Places | Frank R. Strayer | Frank Richardson, Dixie Lee | [32] | ||
Lilies of the Field | Alexander Korda | Corinne Griffith, Ralph Forbes | [32] | ||
Once a Gentleman | James Cruze | Edward Everett Horton, Lois Wilson | |||
One Mad Kiss | Marcel Silver | José Mojica, Antonio Moreno | [32] | ||
The Other Tomorrow | Lloyd Bacon | Billie Dove, Kenneth Thomson | |||
The Man from Blankley's | Alfred E. Green | John Barrymore, Loretta Young | |||
The Man Hunter | D. Ross Lederman | Rin-Tin-Tin, Nora Lane | |||
Murder Will Out | Clarence G. Badger | Jack Mulhall, Lila Lee | |||
No, No, Nanette | Clarence G. Badger | Bernice Claire, Alexander Gray | Part Technicolor musical comedy. The soundtrack discs survive. Trailer is survive. | [32][43] | |
A Romance of Seville | Norman Walker | Alexander D'Arcy, Marguerite Allan | The first British sound feature in colour. A B.I.P. film. | ||
Rough Waters | John Daumery | Rin-Tin-Tin, Jobyna Ralston | |||
Second Choice | Howard Bretherton | Dolores Costello, Chester Morris | |||
She Couldn't Say No | Lloyd Bacon | Winnie Lightner, Chester Morris | Musical drama. | ||
She Got What She Wanted | James Cruze | Lee Tracy, Betty Compson | |||
Song of the Flame | Alan Crosland | Bernice Claire, Noah Beery | All Technicolor musical drama, the first color film featuring wide screen, and Academy Award nominee for Best Sound. Sound discs for five of the nine reels exist. | [32] | |
Song of the West | Ray Enright | John Boles, Joe E. Brown | All Technicolor. The first all-color all-talking feature to be filmed entirely outdoors and the first color Western. The complete soundtrack survives on Vitaphone discs. In a June 2011 forum discussion, a person claimed to have fragments which others then identified as being from this film.[44] | ||
Sons of the Saddle | Harry Joe Brown | Ken Maynard, Doris Hill | |||
Strictly Modern | William A. Seiter | Dorothy Mackaill, Sidney Blackmer | |||
Troopers Three | Norman Taurog | Rex Lease, Dorothy Gulliver | |||
Way of All Men | Frank Lloyd | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Dorothy Revier | |||
What a Widow! | Allan Dwan | Gloria Swanson | Musical drama. | ||
Lord Richard in the Pantry | Walter Forde | Richard Cooper, Dorothy Seacombe | Included on the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" list of missing British feature films. | ||
The Last Hour | Walter Forde | Richard Cooper | |||
1931 | The Age for Love | Frank Lloyd | Billie Dove, Lois Wilson, Charles Starrett | Produced by the Caddo Company and an uncredited Howard Hughes. | |
Alam Ara | Ardeshir Irani | Master Vithal, Zubeida, Jilloo, Sushila, Prithviraj Kapoor | The first Indian sound film. | [45] | |
Annabelle's Affairs | Alfred L. Werker | Victor McLaglen, Jeanette MacDonald | |||
The Bargain | Robert Milton | Lewis Stone, Evalyn Knapp | |||
Children of Dreams | Alan Crosland | Paul Gregory, Margaret Schilling | Musical drama. | ||
Charlie Chan Carries On | Warner Oland, Hamilton MacFadden | An alternate Spanish-language version, featuring a different cast, exists. | |||
Compromised | John G. Adolfi | Rose Hobart, Ben Lyon | |||
Damaged Love | Irvin Willat | June Collyer, Charles Starrett | |||
Deadlock | George King | Stewart Rome, Marjorie Hume, Warwick Ward | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. | [46] | |
Fanny Foley Herself | Edna May Oliver | All-color film photographed in Technicolor. | [32] | ||
Father's Son | Leon Janney, Lewis Stone | ||||
Fifty Fathoms Deep | Roy William Neill | Richard Cromwell, Mary Doran | |||
Hobson's Choice | Thomas Bentley | James Harcourt, Viola Lyel, Frank Pettingell | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. | [47] | |
Honor of the Family | Warren William, Bebe Daniels | ||||
Kalidas | H. M. Reddy | T. P. Rajalakshmi, P. G. Venkatesan, L. V. Prasad | First sound film in Tamil cinema, as well as South Indian cinema | [48][49] | |
The Last Ride | Duke Worne | Dorothy Revier, Charles Morton | |||
Men of the Sky | Alfred E. Green | Irene Delroy, Jack Whiting | Musical drama. | ||
Racetrack | James Cruze | Leo Carrillo, Frank Coghlan Jr. | Completed in 1931, but not released until 1933. | ||
Shanghaied Love | George B. Seitz | Richard Cromwell, Noah Beery | |||
Two Crowded Hours | Michael Powell | John Longden, Jane Welsh, Jerry Verno | Powell's directorial debut. | [50] | |
White Shoulders | Melville W. Brown | Mary Astor, Jack Holt | |||
Women Go on Forever | James Cruze | Clara Kimball Young, Marian Nixon | |||
Woman Hungry | Clarence G. Badger | Lila Lee | All-color film photographed in Technicolor. | ||
Peludópolis | Quirino Cristiani | Argentine production; the world's first animated feature film with sound, using a primitive sound-on-disc system. | [51] | ||
1932 | Charlie Chan's Chance | John G. Blystone | Warner Oland | Sixth film of the Charlie Chan series and third with Warner Oland. | [52] |
Men of Tomorrow | Zoltan Korda, Leontine Sagan | Maurice Braddell, Joan Gardner | Robert Donat's film debut. The film is on the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. | ||
The Missing Rembrandt | Arthur Wontner | Second film in the Sherlock Holmes series. | |||
Paprika | Franciska Gaal | ||||
Speed Demon | D. Ross Lederman | William Collier, Jr., Joan Marsh | |||
Tonendes ABC | László Moholy-Nagy | Experimental film, scratched by hand and seen by Norman McLaren in the 1930s. | [53] | ||
1933 | The Big Brain | George Archainbaud | Fay Wray, George E. Stone | ||
Il caso Haller | Alessandro Blasetti | Marta Abba, Memo Benassi | Remake of 1930 German film The Other. | ||
Charlie Chan's Greatest Case | Warner Oland and Heather Angel | ||||
Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka | Kenzō Masaoka | First sound anime. | |||
Convention City | Archie Mayo | Joan Blondell Dick Powell Adolphe Menjou Mary Astor | A pre-Code film produced by First National–Warner Bros. | [32] | |
India Speaks | Walter Futter | Richard Halliburton | Documentary on India. | ||
The Monkey's Paw | Ernest B. Schoedsack | Adaptation of the W. W. Jacobs horror story. | |||
Night in the City | Fei Mu | Ruan Lingyu Jin Yan | The debut of Fei Mu, one of China's greatest filmmakers. | ||
Stop, Sadie, Stop | Ted Healy | Never released, only one print made. | |||
Two Minutes Silence | Paulette McDonagh | Frank Bradley, Campbell Copelin, Marie Lorraine | Australia's first anti-war movie. | [41] | |
Wasei Kingu Kongu | Torajiro Saito | Isamu Yamaguchi | Japanese short based on King Kong, and the first Kaiju film, preceding Godzilla by 21 years. | [54] | |
1934 | Charlie Chan's Courage | Second version of the Charlie Chan adventure. The 1927 version still exists. | |||
L'impiegata di papà | Alessandro Blasetti | Memo Benassi, Elsa De Giorgi, Renato Cialente | Remake of 1933 German film Heimkehr ins Glück. | ||
Jail Birds of Paradise | Al Boasberg | Moe Howard Curly Howard | |||
Murder at Monte Carlo | Errol Flynn | Flynn's debut film in the UK. | |||
Ragazzo | Ivo Perilli | Costantino Frasca, Isa Pola, Osvaldo Valenti | Screening was banned by Fascist authorities before the premiere, and subsequently stored at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. During the German troops retreat in 1944, the centre was looted and put on fire. | [55][56] | |
The Scarab Murder Case | Wilfrid Hyde-White | A Philo Vance film. | [57] | ||
White Heat | Lois Weber | Virginia Cherrill, Mona Maris, Hardie Albright | The last film, and only talkie, directed by Weber. | ||
1935 | The Magic Shoes | Peter Finch | Completed but never released. | [41] | |
Dark World | Bernard Vorhaus | Tamara Desni, Leon Quartermaine, Googie Withers | Released only in the UK. | ||
1936 | The Oregon Trail | John Wayne | Lost film, but in 2013 stills were found | [58] | |
The Adventures of Pinocchio | Raoul Verdini, Umberto Spano | It was intended to be the first animated feature film from Italy, but is now considered lost, only the original script and a couple of still frames are all that survived of the film | [59] | ||
1937 | Terang Boelan | Albert Balink | Rd. Mochtar, Roekiah | Romance film from the Dutch East Indies; the colony's biggest commercial success | [60] |
1938 | King Kong Appears in Edo | Sōya Kumagai | Eizaburo Matsumoto | A Japanese kaiju (giant monster) film which preceded Godzilla by sixteen years. It was likely lost during World War II. | [61] |
Nad Niemnem | Wanda Jakubowska and Karol Szolowski | The Nazi regime liked the artistic value of the movie, but could not allow the screening of a picture so firmly rooted in Polish history. It was dubbed and re-edited, changing it to pro-German propaganda. Stefan Dekierowski informed the Polish underground, and the remaining three copies (out of 5 total) were hidden in winter 1939; the movie is believed to be lost. | |||
1939 | The Good Old Days | Roy William Neill | Max Miller, Hal Walters, Kathleen Gibson | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. | [62] |
Secreto de confesión | It was lost during the bombing of Manila during World War II. |
1940s
Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes | Ref |
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1940 | Harta Berdarah | R Hu, Rd Ariffien | Zonder, Soelastri | Indonesian action film. Screened until at least July 1944. | [63] |
Kedok Ketawa | Jo An Djan | Fatimah, Basoeki Resobowo, Oedjang | Union Films first production. Screened until at least August 1944. | [63] | |
1941 | Asmara Moerni | Rd Ariffien | Adnan Kapau Gani, Djoewariah, S. Joesoef | Indonesian romance film. Screened until at least November 1945. | [63] |
Bajar dengan Djiwa | R Hu | A Bakar, Djoewariah, O Parma, Oedjang, RS Fatimah, Soelastri, Zonder | Indonesian drama film. Screened until at least October 1943. | [63] | |
Soeara Berbisa | R Hu | Raden Soekarno, Ratna Djoewita, Oedjang, Soehaena | Screened until at least February 1949, longer than any other Union Films production, and the only Union picture known to have been shown post-World War II. | [63] | |
This Man Is Dangerous | Lawrence Huntington | James Mason | Although it is known to have been shown on British television as recently as 1987, the film is believed lost and is included on the BFI's "75 Most Wanted" list of missing British feature films. | [64] | |
Wanita dan Satria | Rd Ariffien | Djoewariah, Ratna Djoewita, Hidajat, Z. Algadrie, Moesa | [63] | ||
1942 | Brother Martin: Servant of Jesus | Spencer Williams | |||
Cóndor Capuchita | Carlos Trupp, Jorge Escudero | Chilean movie. Apparently, in 1982, after the death of Carlos Trupp in the United States, his heirs would have found and searched in 2001 to finance its restoration, but nothing is known since. | [65] | ||
Mega Mendoeng | Boen Kim Nam | Rd Soekarno, Oedjang, Boen Sofiati, Soehaena | Union Films final production before the studio closed ahead of the impending Japanese occupation. | [63] | |
1943 | Squadron Leader X | Lance Comfort | Eric Portman, Ann Dvorak | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list of lost films. | [66] |
1944 | Red Sky at Morning | Hartney Arthur | Peter Finch, John Alden | [41] | |
1945 | Flight from Folly | Herbert Mason | Patricia Kirkwood, Hugh Sinclair | Screen debut of stage star Kirkwood. It is on the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. | [67] |
For You Alone | Geoffrey Faithfull | Lesley Brook, Dinah Sheridan, Jimmy Hanley | Another member of the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. | [68] | |
1948 | The Betrayal | Oscar Micheaux | The director's final production. | [69] |
1950s
Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes | Ref |
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1950 | The Miracle of St. Anne | Orson Welles | Suzanne Cloutier, Maurice Bessy, Boris Vian | Short film made as prologue to the Paris stage production of Welles' play The Unthinking Lobster. | |
1952 | Hammer the Toff | Maclean Rogers | John Bentley, Patricia Dainton, Valentine Dyall | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. | [70] |
Salute the Toff | Maclean Rogers | John Bentley, Carol Marsh, Valentine Dyall | Sequel to Hammer the Toff and also one of the BFI 75 Most Wanted. | [71] | |
1953 | Small Town Story | Montgomery Tully | Donald Houston, Susan Shaw, Alan Wheatley, Kent Walton | Another of the BFI 75 Most Wanted. | [72] |
1960s
Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes | Ref |
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1960 | Linda | Don Sharp | Carol White, Alan Rothwell | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list of lost films. | [73] |
1961 | Cranks at Work | Ken Russell | English. Russell's short 35mm film about the choreographer John Cranko. | [74] | |
1962 | Bulgasari | Kim Myeong-jae | South Korean Kaiju film. Later remade in 1985 as Pulgasari. | [75] | |
Crosstrap | Robert Hartford-Davis | Laurence Payne Jill Adams Gary Cockrell | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. Hartford-Davis' film debut; only reviews are known to survive. | [76] | |
Pages of Death | Tom Harmon (narrator) | Anti-pornography short film produced by Citizens for Decent Literature, narrated by Heisman Trophy winner Tom Harmon. | [77] | ||
1963 | Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming Normal Love | Andy Warhol | Jack Smith | This home movie, which may have been Warhol's first film, was seized by New York City Police in March 1964, and has since disappeared. | [78] |
Farewell Performance | Robert Tronson | David Kernan Frederick Jaeger Delphi Lawrence | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. | [79] | |
1967 | Batman Fights Dracula | Leody M. Diaz | Jing Abalos, Dante Rivero | An unofficial Filipino Batman parody made without permission of DC Comics, owner of the character's copyright. | [80] |
Israel: A Right to Live | John Schlesinger | Director Schlesinger shot this film for producer Harry Saltzman. Alan Rosenthal claims that "hours of film had been shot and edited, but nobody liked the result. Israel was too triumphant, too out of keeping with the changed mood. It had a few showings and then passed into oblivion." On the other hand, William J. Mann claims that Schlesinger never finished the documentary, "due to 'creative differences' with the BBC." Cinematographer Anthony B. Richmond claimed in 2011 that he's never been able to find a copy of the documentary. | |||
1968 | Las Noches del Hombre Lobo | René Govar | Paul Naschy | The second in a series of films featuring the character Count Waldemar Daninsky. Never publicly screened or seen by anyone, including Haschy. Suspected by some to be a hoax. | [81] |
The Other People | David Hart | Peter McEnery, Donald Pleasence | Never released. | [82] | |
1969 | The Promise | Michael Hayes | Ian McKellen, John Castle | First known film adaptation of a work by Soviet playwright Aleksei Arbuzov, and an early film role for McKellen. Appears on the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. | [83] |
1970s
Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes | Ref |
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1972 | Nobody Ordered Love | Robert Hartford-Davis | Ingrid Pitt, Tony Selby | All known prints believed destroyed upon the director's death, at his request. Currently listed on the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. | [84] |
See also
- Bezhin Meadow, an unfinished Soviet film directed by Sergei Eisenstein. The reels were destroyed during a World War II bombing raid in 1941.
References
- ↑ "Vault and Nitrate Fires – A History". TCM.com. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Jo Botting. "Lost Then Found". British Film Institute (screenonline.org.uk). Retrieved February 21, 2013.
- ↑ Robert A. Harris, public hearing statement to the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., February 1993.
- ↑ "Film Preservation". The Film Foundation. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
- ↑ "Why". Deutsche Kinemathek. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
- ↑ Ohlheiser, Abby (December 4, 2013). "Most of America's Silent Films Are Lost Forever". The Wire. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- ↑ Slide, Anthony (2000). Nitrate Won't Wait: History of Film Preservation in the United States. McFarland. p. 5. ISBN 0786408367. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
It is often claimed that 75 percent of all American silent films are gone and 50 percent of all films made prior to 1950 are lost, but such figures, as archivists admit in private, were thought up on the spur of the moment, without statistical information to back them up.
- ↑ "Arrivée d'un train (Arrival of a Train)". silentera.com. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
- ↑ "L'arroseur". silentera.com. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
- ↑ "Barque sortant du port de Trouville". silentera.com. Retrieved February 25, 2013.
- ↑ "Bateau-mouche sur la Seine". silentera.com. Retrieved February 25, 2013.
- ↑ "Bébé et fillettes". silentera.com. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
- ↑ "Les blanchisseuses". silentera.com. Retrieved February 25, 2013.
- ↑ "Bois de Boulogne". silentera.com. Retrieved February 25, 2013.
- ↑ "Bois de Boulogne". silentera.com. Retrieved February 25, 2013.
- ↑ "Boulevard des Italiens". silentera.com. Retrieved February 25, 2013.
- ↑ "Campement de bohémiens". silentera.com. Retrieved February 26, 2013.
- ↑ "Les chevaux de bois". silentera.com. Retrieved February 26, 2013.
- ↑ "Le chiffonier (sic)". silentera.com. Retrieved February 26, 2013.
- ↑ "Couronnement de la rosière". silentera.com. Retrieved February 26, 2013.
- ↑ "Déchargement de bateaux". silentera.com. Retrieved February 27, 2013.
- ↑ "Jardinier brûlant des herbes". silentera.com. Retrieved February 27, 2013.
- ↑ "Jetée et Plage de Trouville (1st part)". silentera.com. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
- ↑ "Jetée et Plage de Trouville (2nd part)". silentera.com. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
- ↑ "Jour de marché à Trouville". silentera.com. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
- ↑ "The Bioscope Festival of Lost Films". Retrieved 2009-01-07.
- ↑ "Hiawatha, The Messiah of the Ojibway". Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
- ↑ Uusitalo, Kari (1996). Suomen kansallisfilmografia, osa 1: 1907–1935 (The Finnish National Filmography, part 1: 1907-1935). Finnish National Audiovisual Archive, Suomen kansallinen audiovisuaalinen arkisto (Kava): Edita. ISBN 9513719014.
- ↑ "Bobby's Kodak". silentera.com. Retrieved February 20, 2013.
- ↑ "The Music Master". silentera.com. Retrieved April 1, 2011.
- ↑ "Alias Jimmy Valentine". silentera.com.
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 32.2 32.3 32.4 32.5 32.6 32.7 32.8 32.9 32.10 32.11 32.12 32.13 32.14 32.15 32.16 32.17 32.18 32.19 32.20 32.21 32.22 32.23 32.24 32.25 32.26 32.27 32.28 32.29 32.30 32.31 32.32 32.33 Barrios, Richard (1995). A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film. Oxford University Press. pp. 453–454. ISBN 0195088115. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
- ↑ "The Argyle Case". silentera.com. Retrieved March 22, 2013.
- ↑ "The Aviator". silentera.com. Retrieved March 22, 2013.
- ↑ Pictorial History of the Talkies c.1958,1970 & 1980 and other years, by Daniel Blum
- ↑ Greta de Groat (Electronic Media Cataloger at Stanford University Libraries). "Evidence". stanford.edu. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
- ↑ "Frozen Justice". silentera.com. Retrieved April 3, 2013.
- ↑ The American Film Institute Catalog 1921-30, The American Film Institute, c. 1971
- ↑ "IMDb trivia section for A Most Immoral Lady". IMDb. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
- ↑ Kerzoncuf, Alain (February 2009). "Alfred Hitchcock and The Fighting Generation". Senses of Cinema (49).
- ↑ 41.0 41.1 41.2 41.3 "Australia's 'Lost' Films". National Film and Sound Archive. Retrieved March 27, 2013.
- ↑ "Kismet". Deutsche Kinemathek. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
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- ↑ "A fragment of a colour nitrate film". nitrateville.com. Retrieved March 27, 2013.
- ↑ Priya Krishnamoorthy (June 15, 2007). "India's first talkie lost in silence". IBN Live. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
- ↑ "Deadlock / BFI Most Wanted". British Film Institute. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
- ↑ "Hobson's Choice / BFI Most Wanted". British Film Institute.
- ↑ MALATHI RANGARAJAN. "Tryst with the past". The Hindu. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
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Works cited
- Heider, Karl G (1991). Indonesian Cinema: National Culture on Screen. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-1367-3.
External links
- List of lost silent era films at www.silentera.com
- Lost films database of Deutsche Kinemathek
- American Silent Feature Film Database at the Library of Congress
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