70 Percent Of American Silent Films May Be Lost Forever, Says New Library Of Congress Study | ThinkProgress:
" But a shocking new study by film historian David Pierce for the Library of Congress reveals that just 30 percent of those movies exist in any form today, and only 14 percent of them survive in their complete, original format.
It’s a striking cultural loss that’s the result of wildly divergent attitudes towards preservation among actors and movie studio executives who worked during the silent film period. And losing that history doesn’t just deny us the opportunity to see movies from the early years of American cinema. It means we lose an opportunity to see how American movies have developed over the years, and to truly understand the evolution of the norms that have governed American filmmaking."
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