Started by Ayodele Bankole (@ayo_archives) ·
silent films that survived by accident
After reading about films that are gone forever I wanted the opposite list.
6 sources · 51 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “lost films that were found”
- Ended at
- Dawson City: Frozen Time
The Trail
- “lost films that were found” (google.com)
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (en.wikipedia.org)
the original cut turned up in 1981 in a closet at a psychiatric hospital in Norway
- Metropolis (1927 film) (en.wikipedia.org)
missing footage found in a museum in Argentina in 2008
- Nosferatu (en.wikipedia.org)
- Florence Stoker (en.wikipedia.org)
she won a court order to destroy every copy of Nosferatu. didn't work
- Dawson City: Frozen Time (en.wikipedia.org)
What I came away with
Dreyer's original Joan of Arc was believed lost after a fire, until a janitor found three canisters at Dikemark Hospital near Oslo in 1981, still in their 1928 packaging. A damaged print of Lang's original Metropolis cut was found in Buenos Aires in 2008 and restored.
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