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Lost Silent Films

posted 10 years ago by Camelot_2000
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I just found an article about lost silent films. Amazing how they can vanish without a trace and then be found decades later in the most unexpected of places. I'm glad they found the 1918 short The Cook with Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton. It's hilarious.

Here's the link: http://listverse.com/2014/01/15/10-great-lost-films-and-where-they-tur ned-up/

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[–] coldnaps 9 years ago

Love for them to unearth more Lon Chaney and Theda Bara films

[–] Gblakelii 9 years ago

What about the many silent films that never made it to video, DVD or Youtube? It's almost the same as lost.

[–] lubin-freddy 9 years ago

http://www.silentera.com/lost/index.html

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[–] drunkbear 9 years ago

Quite a few of them that have been found surfaced in Eastern Europe. Exhibitors over there apparently didn't pay much attention to American copyright laws; they would rent or buy one or two 'originals,' then make dozens of unauthorized copies. It's kind of ironic that their piracy actually aided in the preservation of these films.

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[–] LetThemEatCake01 8 years ago

I don't know how they can be lost, I know they were burned, thrown away, etc, but these films were sent all over the world, it's astonishing that there is no print outside the US, it's insane.

[–] LetThemEatCake01 8 years ago

get the silver recovered?? what do you mean?