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unusual facts about lost film


Arthur B. Woods

As was the case with many non-prestige British films of the 1930s, little attention or care was given to Woods' films after their original cinema run, and most of his films from the mid-1930s are now considered lost.


American Fairy Tales

Baum adapted "The Box of Robbers" and "The Magic Bon Bons" as chapters 1 and 3 of his lost film series, Violet's Dreams, both with Violet MacMillan in the role of child protagonist.

Bajar dengan Djiwa

The film is likely lost, as are all Indonesian films from before 1950 according to American visual anthropologist Karl G. Heider.

Batman Dracula

The film was thought to have been lost until scenes from the picture were shown at some length in the documentary Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2006).

Cyril Frankel

One of his films, Man of Africa (1953) - the first film to feature a cast made up of relatively unknown black actors - was not released and was apparently lost.

Raymond Rohauer

Alternatively he exploited instances where living writers no longer held the rights to his work, an example being the J.B. Priestley novel Benighted, which was the basis for The Old Dark House (1932); James Whale's horror film for Universal (which had been thought lost for some years) thus passed to Rohauer.

Secret Strings

Secret Strings is a lost 1918 silent film crime drama produced and distributed by Metro Pictures.

The Carpet from Bagdad

The film is now mostly lost, although one badly damaged reel was salvaged from the RMS Lusitania in 1982.

The Chinese Parrot

The novel was adapted for film twice, as The Chinese Parrot in 1927 and as Charlie Chan's Courage in 1934 (which is considered a lost film).

The Eternal Three

The film was made from a screen story by Neilan and is now a lost film, although a brief production scene of director Marshall Neilan with stars Raymond Griffith, Hobart Bosworth, and Claire Windsor appear in the restored film Souls for Sale.

The Pagan

The film has a slight resemblance in story to an earlier Novarro silent, Where the Pavement Ends (1923), directed by Rex Ingram and now lost.

This Week of Grace

Thought to have been lost, it was loaned to the British Film Institute as a result of its 2010 search for missing films, and a copy was made for the National Archive.


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Cry Baby Lane

A search began for the lost film, and in August 2011, a user from the website Reddit recovered a VHS copy recorded from the film's original broadcast and made it available online.

Henry Kolker

Kolker's best known directorial effort is Disraeli (1921), starring George Arliss which is now a lost film with only one reel remaining.

Jay Leyda

He participated in the filming of Eisenstein's lost film Bezhin Meadow (1935–37).

The Lady in Ermine

The story was remade as an early talkie musical in Technicolor, Bride of the Regiment (1930), also released by First National and also considered a lost film.

Totally Awesome

Ben Stein introduces the film as a long-lost film from the 1980s, so a lot of the jokes are now outdated in 2006.

Vilma Bánky

Her first film appearance was in the now lost film, Im Letzten Augenblick, directed by Carl Boese in Germany in 1919.

West of Memphis

With the January 2012 HBO premiere of the third Paradise Lost film, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, there were two documentary films on the subject within a year.