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Started by Ayodele Bankole (@ayo_archives) ·

London After Midnight, the most wanted lost film

Tod Browning and Lon Chaney, 1927. The last known copy burned in the 1965 MGM vault fire. All that's left are stills of Chaney's makeup, which are honestly scary enough, and a 2002 TCM reconstruction built from the script and those stills.

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How I got here

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What's the most famous lost film?
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Nitrocellulose

The Trail

  1. “most famous lost films” (google.com)
  2. Lost film (en.wikipedia.org)
  3. London After Midnight (film) (en.wikipedia.org)
  4. 1965 MGM vault fire (en.wikipedia.org)
  5. Lon Chaney (en.wikipedia.org)
  6. 1937 Fox vault fire (en.wikipedia.org)
  7. Nitrocellulose (en.wikipedia.org)

    old nitrate film is flammable enough that vault fires were a whole category of disaster

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