London After Midnight, starring Lon Chaney and directed by Tod Browning in 1927, was a silent-era mystery-thriller pseudo-vampire film that is now considered to be the 'holy grail' of lost films by collectors.
Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation estimates that more than 90% of American films made before 1929 are lost, and the Library of Congress estimates that 75% of all silent films are lost forever.
Nitrate Fires & Movie Vaults: Films LOST and FOUND
What was the last silent film to win an Oscar?
The Artist, French black-and-white film, released in 2011, that was an homage to movies of the 1920s and became the first mostly silent feature to win the Academy Award for best picture since the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929.
The oldest surviving silent film is known as the Roundhay Garden Scene. It was recorded on October 14, 1888, by inventor Louis Le Prince in Roundhay, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Left Behind is an American Christian thriller film series based on the Left Behind book series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. The series consists of five films and two spin-offs.
What is the most sought after piece of lost media? Eighteen and half minutes of taped conversation between President Nixon and advisor HR Haldeman on June 20, 1972 that was “accidentally erased.” The conversation occurred three days after the infamous Watergate break-in.
Well, it was released in just one cinema, anyway: the Laemmle Sunset 5 in Los Angeles. The movie performed terribly, with just one person paying the admission fee of $11, and it subsequently took the title of the lowest-grossing movie from the 2006 film Zyzzyx Road.
Reasons for this vary from problems related to the volatile nature of early film stock to intentional destruction on the part of studios, but the results were always the same. It's estimated that 75% of all silent-era films are lost forever, alongside half of all American sound films made before 1950.
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Marvin Alvin Clark (ca. 1852—disappeared October 30, 1926) was an American man who disappeared under mysterious circumstances while en route to visit his daughter in Portland, Oregon during the Halloween weekend, 1926. Clark's case has the distinction of being the oldest active missing person case in the United States.
Missing is no horror film, but it is a very well crafted thriller. The performances are spectacular. The grounded reality of the film makes it feel like you are watching these terrifying events play out in real time. There's a large debate between thriller and horror films, but it doesn't matter.
Did you know that A Visit to the Seaside (1908) was the first commercially produced film in natural color? This eight-minute British short film used the Kinemacolor process to capture Brighton Southern England seafront shots.
The Jazz Singer, American musical film, released in 1927, that was the first feature-length movie with synchronized dialogue. It marked the ascendancy of “talkies” and the end of the silent-film era.
A silent movie is a movie made without sound. Silent movies were made from the late 1880s to the early 1930s. They used early cameras that could not record sound.
