A lost film is a feature film or short film that no longer exists in either studio archives or private collections. The phrase "lost film" is also used in a literal sense for instances where footage of deleted scenes, unedited and alternate versions of feature films, and recordings of early television programming are known to have been created but can no longer be accounted for. A reel of film, which predates digital cinematography. ... Short subject is an American film industry term that historically has referred to any film in the format of two reels, or approximately 20 minutes running time, or less. ...

Sometimes a copy of a "lost" film is rediscovered; these have been referred to as "Lazarus" films. A film that has not been recovered in its entirety is called a "partially lost film". Resurrection of Lazarus by Juan de Flandes, around 1500 For other uses, see Lazarus (disambiguation). ...

Reasons for film loss

Most lost films are from the silent film and early talkie era, from about 1894 to 1930.^[1] Martin Scorsese's Film Preservation Foundation estimates that 80 percent of the films from this era are lost. A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ... The Warner Brothers Vitaphone logo. ... Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (IPA: AmE: ; Ita: []) (b. ...

Many early motion pictures are lost because the nitrate film used in that era was extremely unstable and flammable. Fires have destroyed entire archives of films; for example, a storage vault fire in 1937 destroyed all the original negatives of Fox Pictures's pre-1935 movies.^[2] In addition, film can deteriorate rapidly if not preserved in temperature and humidity controlled storage. Skeletal formula of nitrocellulose Ball-and-stick model of a section of nitrocellulose Nitrocellulose (also: cellulose nitrate, flash paper) is a highly flammable compound formed by nitrating cellulose through exposure to nitric acid or another powerful nitrating agent. ... Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ...

But the largest cause of silent film loss was intentional destruction, as silent films had little or no commercial value after the silent era ended in 1930. As film preservationist Robert A. Harris has said, Robert A. Harris is a film historian and preservationist who has restored and reconstructed a number of classic films. ...

"Most of the early films did not survive because of wholesale junking by the studios. There was no thought of ever saving these films. They simply needed vault space and the materials were expensive to house."^[3]

Many early talkies from Warner Bros. and First National were lost because they used a sound-on-disk process which utilized separate soundtracks on special phonograph records. These records were often lost or misplaced, thereby making the reel a virtually worthless "mute print", and consequently they were often thrown away. This all changed by 1930, when those studios converted to a sound-on-film process. “WB” redirects here. ... The First National Exhibitors Circuit was founded 1917 by the merger of 26 of the biggest First Run cinema chains in the United States of America, controlling more than 600 cinemas, more than 200 of them were First Run cinemas. ...

Before the eras of home video and television, films were viewed as having little value after their theatrical run ended. Thus, many films were deliberately destroyed by the studios as a space-saving maneuver. Many old Technicolor two-color negatives from the 1920s and 1930s were thrown out as a space-clearing measure when the studios refused to reclaim their films still being held by Technicolor in its vaults. Many films were recycled for their silver content. Some prints were sold either intact or broken into short clips to individuals who bought early novelty home projection machines and wanted scenes from their favorite movies to play for guests or family members. The home video business rents and sells videocassettes and DVDs to the public. ... Logo celebrating Technicolors 90th Anniversary Technicolor is the trademark for a series of color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation (a subsidiary of Technicolor, Inc. ... This article is about the chemical element. ...

In order to preserve films with a nitrate base, they can be copied to safety film or digitized, although the former is preferred over the latter in the archival community because of its proven longevity and approximation of original format. Photographic film called safety film is made with an acetate base, chemically either cellulose diacetate, cellulose acetate propiarate, cellulose acetate butyrate, or cellulose triacetate. ... Digitizing, or digitization, is the process of turning an analog signal into a digital representation of that signal. ...

Particularly striking is the case of Theda Bara: of the 40 films she made, only three and a half survive. More typical is the case of Clara Bow; of her 57 movies, 20 are completely lost and five more are incomplete.^[4] Theda Bara was the stage name of Theodosia Burr Goodman (July 29, 1885 - April 13, 1955), a silent film actress. ... Clara Gordon Bow (July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) was an American actress and sex symbol who rose to fame in the silent film era of the 1920s. ...

There are occasional exceptions. All of Charlie Chaplin's films from his entire career have survived as well as extensive amounts of unused footage dating back to 1914, save for A Woman of the Sea (which he destroyed himself as a tax writeoff) and one of his early Keystone films, Her Friend The Bandit. (see Unknown Chaplin). Charles Chaplin redirects here. ... A Woman of the Sea or Seagull, which was the working title, was made in 1925. ... Her Friend the Bandit is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios staring Charlie Chaplin. ... An acclaimed three-part 1983 British-produced television documentary based on previously unseen film from the career of Charles Chaplin. ...

Later lost films

35mm safety film was introduced in 1949; it was much more stable than early nitrate film and as a result, there are comparatively few lost films from after about 1950. However, color fading of certain color stocks and vinegar syndrome threaten the preservation of films made since about this time. Photographic film called safety film is made with an acetate base, chemically either cellulose diacetate, cellulose acetate propiarate, cellulose acetate butyrate, or cellulose triacetate. ... Vinegar syndrome [= VS] is a problem with cellulose triacetate film, in which it degrades and releases a smell resembling that of vinegar. ...

Most mainstream movies from the 1950s and beyond survive today, but several early pornographic films and some B-Movies are lost. In most cases these obscure films go unnoticed and unknown, but some films by noted cult directors have been lost as well: Pornographic films are motion pictures that explicitly depict sexual intercourse and other sexual acts, typically for the purpose of sexual arousal in the viewer. ... The term B-movie originally referred to a film designed to be distributed as the lower half of a double feature, often a genre film featuring cowboys, gangsters or vampires. ... A cult film is a film that has acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group of fans. ...

• Cult favorite Herschell Gordon Lewis' 1969 films, Ecstasies of Women and Linda and Abilene, have disappeared.

• Edward D. Wood, Jr.'s (1972) film, The Undergraduate, has been lost along with his 1970 film Take It Out In Trade, which exists only in fragments without sound. Wood's 1971 film Necromania was believed lost for years until an edited version resurfaced at a yard sale in 1992, followed by a complete unedited print in 2001.^[5] A complete print of the previously lost Wood pornographic film The Young Marrieds was discovered in 2004.

• Tom Graeff's first feature film, The Noble Experiment (1955), in which director/writer Graeff plays a misunderstood genius scientist, is considered lost.

• Most of Andy Milligan's early films are considered lost.

• Many short sponsored films—films made for educational, training, or religious purposes—from the 1940s through the 1970s are also lost, as they were thought of as disposable or upgradeable.

Some aspects of more recent films may be lost, too. Early color films such as The Mysterious Island and The Show of Shows exist only partially or not at all in color because the copies that were made of the film that exist were done so on black and white stock. Two 3-D films from 1954, Top Banana and Southwest Passage, both exist only in their flat form because only one print made for either the left or right eye to see exists. Herschell Gordon Lewis (born 15 June 1926, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA) is a film-maker best known for creating the splatter film subgenre of horror. ... The year 1969 in film involved some significant events. ... Edward Davis Wood, Jr. ... // Top grossing films The Godfather Fiddler on the Roof Diamonds Are Forever Whats Up, Doc?, starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan ONeal Dirty Harry The Last Picture Show A Clockwork Orange Cabaret, starring Liza Minnelli The Hospital Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex Academy Awards Best Picture... // Events February 11 - The film The Magic Christian, starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr premieres in New York City. ... See also: 1970 in film 1971 1972 in film 1970s in film years in film film // Events February 8 - Bob Dylans hour long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New Yorks Academy of Music. ... The cover of the DVD release of Necromania Necromania (sometimes subtitled A Tale of Weird Love) is a formerly lost porn film by Ed Wood, Jr. ... This article is about the year. ... Tom Graeff in the film Teenagers from Outer Space (1959). ... Andy Milligan (January 31, 1929 – June 3, 1991) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director whose work includes 27 films made between 1963 and 1991. ... Sponsored film, or ephemeral film, as defined by film archivist Rick Prelinger, is film made by a particular sponsor for a specific purpose other than as a work of art: the films were designed to serve a specific pragmatic purpose for a limited time. ... The Mysterious Island, directed by Lucien Hubbard, is the 1929 film adaptation of Jules Vernes French novel LÎle mystérieuse (The Mysterious Island), published in 1874. ... Chinese Fantasy number. ... The year 1954 in film involved some significant events. ... Top Banana is a 1954 United Artists movie musical based on the musical of the same title starring Phil Silvers. ...

Almost lost films

Many important silent-era films, and films which involve important actors, directors, and creative talent, exist in single prints in museums, archives, and private collections — single prints which have not been copied, digitized, or preserved in any way.

Lost film soundtracks

Some films produced in sound-on-disc systems such as Vitaphone, where the sound discs are separate from the film element, are now considered lost because the sound discs were damaged or destroyed, while the picture element was not. Some surviving Vitaphone films exist in picture only, while the soundtracks, which were played from discs, are lost. Conversely, some Vitaphone films survive only as sound, with the film missing. The term Sound-on-disc refers to a class of sound film processes utilizing a phonograph or other disc to record or playback sound in sync with a motion picture. ... The Warner Brothers Vitaphone logo. ...

Many stereophonic soundtracks from the early-to-mid 1950s that were either played in interlock on a 35mm fullcoat magnetic reel or single-strip magnetic film (such as Fox's four-track magnetic, which became the standard of mag stereophonic sound) are now lost. Films such as House of Wax, The Caddy, The War of the Worlds, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, and From Here to Eternity that were originally available with 3-track, magnetic sound are now available only with a monophonic optical soundtrack. The chemistry behind adhering magnetic particles to the tri-acetate film base eventually caused the autocatalytic breakdown of the film (vinegar syndrome). As long as studios had a monaural optical negative that could be printed, studio executives felt no need to preserve the stereophonic versions of the soundtracks. Label for 2. ... House of Wax can refer to: House of Wax, a 1953 3D horror film starring Vincent Price. ... The Caddy, starring the comedy team of Martin and Lewis was filmed from November 24, 1952 through February 23, 1953. ... The War of the Worlds (also sometimes known as H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds) is a 1953 science fiction film produced by George Pál and directed by Byron Haskin from a script by Barré Lyndon based on the H. G. Wells novel of the same name. ... The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. is a 1953 musical fantasy film. ... From Here to Eternity is a 1953 movie based on a James Jones novel in which characters work through ordinary bouts of intimidation and infidelity on a military base in the days preceding the attack on Pearl Harbor. ... A single chemical reaction is said to have undergone autocatalysis, or be autocatalytic, if the reaction product is itself the catalyst for that reaction. ...

Commercially unavailable films

The term "lost films" has also been applied erroneously to films that do survive in their entirety, but have never been made available to the public in consumer formats such as VHS and DVD and in some cases have never been broadcast on television (a few of these are available on bootlegs of varying quality): Bottom view of VHS cassette with magnetic tape exposed Top view of VHS cassette with front casing removed The Video Home System, better known by its abbreviation VHS, is a recording and playing standard. ... DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc - see Etymology) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ... The Cathach of St. ...

• Letty Lynton, a 1932 MGM film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, and Nils Asther, has been unavailable since a U.S. Federal Court ruled on 17 January 1936 that the script used by MGM followed too closely the 1930 play, Dishonored Lady by Edward Sheldon and Margaret Ayer Barnes, without acquiring the rights to the play or giving credit (the film's credits say the film is based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Marie Belloc Lowndes).
• The John Wayne film The High and the Mighty from 1954 was one famous example; it was last seen on television in 1982, and not released on home video until it was issued on DVD in 2005.
• Disney's Song of the South, last reissued theatrically in 1986, is not available in North America for concerns over its racial stereotypes in the reconstruction period after the American Civil War. It is available in some formats in Europe and Asia.
• The 1968 Anthony Newley musical film "Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?", the first X-rated musical.
• The made-for-television movie The Star Wars Holiday Special has never been officially released on home video, and was only aired once on TV. Bootleg copies of the special (a recording from the original airdate complete with commericals) is popular with fans.
• Owing to concerns about footage of illegal activity, the Rolling Stones documentary Cocksucker Blues is prohibited from being shown unless the director (Robert Frank) is present.
• American Hot Wax (1978) was formerly available on VHS, but is now long out of print. The story of pioneer rock 'n' roll DJ Alan Freed features many actual 1950s recording acts such as Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and The Planotones, as well as Fran Drescher and Jay Leno.
• The 1982 film Inchon has never been released on any format after its disastrous run at movie theaters.
• At Long Last Love, the 1975 Cole Porter tribute musical starring Burt Reynolds and Cybill Shepherd that brought down the then high-flying career of director Peter Bogdanovich.
• The Day the Clown Cried, a 1972 film featuring Jerry Lewis as a clown entertaining children in a concentration camp, finished principal photography, but has been in legal limbo with the author of the book the film is based on and has never been fully edited.
• A low-budget 1994 feature film version of The Fantastic Four directed by Oley Sassone and produced by Roger Corman.
• The Canadian made animated movie Heavy Metal, based on the fantasy/sci-fi comic Heavy Metal magazine and released in 1981 was only briefly available in the mid 1980's on cable movie channels like HBO. While undoubtedly home recordings of these cable broadcasts were made, they were rare because of the fledgling videocassette recorder and home video industries at the time. Actual commercial versions were not available until 15 years after theatrical release, owing to legal battles involving the multiple artists on the soundtrack; it was finally released on VHS in 1996.
• Fear and Desire, the first feature film from Stanley Kubrick; Kubrick bought up almost all film copies in order to prevent future showings.

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Lost television broadcasts

See also: wiping.

• Many early television series episodes were lost because they were aired live and no recording ever was made, because kinescopes that were made are now lost, or because the highly expensive early videotape — first used in 1956 after its introduction by Ampex Corporation — was erased and re-used by the network. Most episodes of important, popular shows like Captain Video and Your Show of Shows are presumed lost. Episodes of TV shows from the DuMont network are particularly difficult to find since DuMont went out of business in 1955 and its kinescope recordings of programming were supposedly dumped into Upper New York Bay.
• This practice of re-using video tape continued well into the 1970s: many episodes of the pioneering Australian prime time soap opera Number 96 are lost.
• Over 100 early episodes of the cult BBC sci-fi show Doctor Who do not exist in the BBC's archives, though they have an ongoing appeal for help from viewers who may have recorded the shows during their original airings. Audio recordings exist for all of the lost episodes, however, many of which have been released commercially by the BBC, and two episodes of the serial The Invasion which survive only in audio form were reconstructed using animation for the serial's DVD release in 2006^[6].
• Many other BBC shows are missing from the archives, including the BBC studio footage from the Apollo 11 moon landings. Many series are missing in their entirety, while others only survive in fragments, such as A for Andromeda, a science fiction series that was Julie Christie's first major role, and The Vampira Show, the first television horror movie show. Also missing are episodes of The Avengers, Dad's Army, Hancock's Half Hour, Doomwatch, Out of the Unknown, Dixon of Dock Green, Z Cars, and many others.
• Almost all of NBC's The Tonight Show with Jack Paar and the first ten years (1962–1972) hosted by Johnny Carson were taped over by the network and no longer exist. This is why Carson's The Tonight Show picture looked muddy during broadcast in the late '60s: the videotape was being used repeatedly. A single episode from Carson's first year on The Tonight Show turned up in a closet a few years ago.^{[citation needed]} Selected sequences from Carson's 1962–72 era do survive and were often replayed by Carson himself (particularly in the months preceding his retirement in 1992) and have been released to home video. Some Paar episodes also survive and have been released to DVD.
• With home VCRs being uncommon until the mid-1980s, it is unlikely that lost television episodes exist in the collections of individuals, though this occasionally happens. One well-known example is a clip of John Lennon visiting the announcers booth during a 1974 Monday Night Football broadcast. ABC lost the footage of this event, but a private collector's copy of the event appears in the Beatles Anthology.
• Many of the original master tapes of the controversial and anarchic British children's Saturday morning television series Tiswas were wiped after the series was canceled in 1983. This was apparently due to a television executive's belief that the series was an embarrassment to the network. When a series of Tiswas highlight compilation tapes were released on video in the early 1990s (followed in 2006 by a DVD), much of the footage appeared to have been culled from the off-air recordings of private archivists.
• Super Bowl I was broadcast by both NBC and CBS, but no copies were kept of either broadcast. Super Bowl II is also lost. However, both were captured on film by NFL Films, and these have been released on DVD.
• Many soap operas such as Search for Tomorrow and The Edge of Night have lost episodes. Owing to archiving policies, episodes of All My Children produced between 1970 and 1975 exist only as black-and-white kinescopes although all episodes were originally produced in color.
• The original slow-scan TV footage of the first manned moon landing in 1969 — believed to be of significantly higher quality than the standards-converted version broadcast on TV — is missing from NASA's archives.^[7][8]
• The original black & white first episode of series one of the British series Upstairs, Downstairs does not exist in any form with the possible exception of a few stills and the location footage which features at the start of the episode. The original recording took place on November 13, 1970 and was in monochrome due to a dispute with studio technicians who refused to work with colour recording equipment as part of a work-to-rule. The following five episodes were also recorded in monochrome before the dispute ended with the recording of episode 6 in color on February 12, 1971. After the entire thirteen-episode season run had been recorded, it was decided to re-record the first episode in color to gain the highest possible audience for its first UK transmission and to help with overseas sales. The re-recording took place on May 21, 1971 and the series' UK debut was on October 10, 1971.^[9] The original monochrome recording was never transmitted and has since been wiped. All of the other five black & white episodes from series one survive.
• All but four episodes of the original 1964–1975 version of the game show Jeopardy! are said to be lost.

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Recovered films

Occasionally, prints of films and television broadcasts considered lost have been rediscovered. An example is the 1910 version of Frankenstein which was believed lost for decades until the existence of a print (which had been in the hands of an unwitting collector for years) was discovered in the 1970s. Similarly, a number of episodes of Doctor Who previously thought lost have been recovered from private collectors and various other sources over the years, such as Tomb of the Cybermen. Frankenstein is a 1910 film made by Edison Studios that was written and directed by J. Searle Dawley. ... The Tomb of the Cybermen is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in four weekly parts from September 2 to September 23, 1967. ...

Sometimes a film believed lost in its original state has been restored, either through the process of colorization, or other restoration methods. The Cage, the original 1964 pilot film for Star Trek, only survived in a black and white print until the 1980s when color elements were discovered that allowed a full-color version to be recreated. And in the early 2000s, the 1927 German film Metropolis — which had been distributed in many different edits over the years — was restored to as close to the original version as possible by reinstating edited footage and using computer technology to repair damaged footage; even so approximately a quarter of the original film footage is considered lost, according to Kino Video's DVD release of the restored film. Film colorization is the general term for a film alteration process that involves adding color to a black and white film. ... The Cage is the original pilot episode of the original Star Trek science fiction series and resulting franchise. ... A television pilot is a test episode of an intended television series. ... This article is about the entire Star Trek franchise. ... Metropolis is a very early science fiction film that was produced in Germany during the brief years of the Weimar Republic. ... Kino International is a film and video distributor, based in New York City that specializes in art-house films, such as low-budget current films and classic films from earlier periods in the history of cinema. ...

List of selected lost films

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• The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays (1908) - First adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and several of its sequels and starring author L. Frank Baum as himself.

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1910s

• The Immortal Alamo (1911) - Starring Francis Ford.
• The Honor of the Family (1912) - Starring Lon Chaney, Sr..
• The Battle of Gettysburg (1913) - Directed by Thomas H. Ince.
• The Vampire (1913) - Britain's first feature length horror film.
• The Werewolf (1913) - The first werewolf film.
• The Battle of the Sexes (1914) - Directed by D.W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish.
• The Escape (1914) - Directed by D.W. Griffith and starring Donald Crisp.
• Her Friend the Bandit (1914) - Directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand.
• A Study in Scarlet (1914) - The first feature-length adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes story.
• The Jungle (1914) - The only film version to date of Upton Sinclair's book of the same name.
• Anna Karenina (1915) - Directed by J. Gordon Edwards.
• Life Without Soul (1915) - The second film based upon the novel Frankenstein.
• Magda (1915) - Starring Clara Kimball Young and Valda Valkyrien.
• Two Orphans (1915) - Starring Theda Bara; was remade by D.W. Griffith as Orphans of the Storm, starring Dorothy Gish and Lillian Gish.
• The Aryan (1916) - Directed by Thomas H. Ince and starring William S. Hart and Bessie Love.
• A Daughter of the Gods (1916) - Starring Annette Kellerman. A few feet were held in The Cinema Museum of London, but are now lost.
• Romeo and Juliet (1916) - Starring Theda Bara.
• The Fall of a Nation (1916) - Directed by Thomas Dixon.
• Camille (1917) - Starring Theda Bara.
• A Country Hero (1917) - Starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton.
• El Apóstol (1917) - Argentine production; believed to be the world's first animated feature film.
• Der Golem und die Tänzerin (1917) - Directed by Paul Wegener was the first sequel to a horror film.
• The Gulf Between (1917) - Starring Grace Darmond and Niles Welch; this was the first Technicolor film, a few frames of which survive.
• Life's Whirlpool (1917) - Directed by Lionel Barrymore and starring Ethel Barrymore; based on Frank Norris' novel McTeague.
• The Scarlet Letter (1917) - Directed by Carl Harbaugh and starring Stuart Holmes.
• Bound in Morocco (1918) - Starring Douglas Fairbanks.
• The Great Love (1918) - Directed by D.W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish.
• The Greatest Thing in Life (1918) - Directed by D.W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish.
• The Kaiser, Beast of Berlin (1918) - Early World War I propaganda film with Rupert Julian.
• Salomé (1918) - Starring Theda Bara.
• Savage Woman (1918) - Starring Clara Kimball Young and Milton Sills.
• Anne of Green Gables (1919) - Directed by William Desmond Taylor and starring Mary Miles Minter.
• The Homesteader (1919) - Directed by Oscar Micheaux, starring Evelyn Preer.
• The Knickerbocker Buckaroo (1919) - Starring Douglas Fairbanks.
• Marked Men (1919) - Directed by John Ford (credited as Jack Ford).

See also: 1910 in film 1911 1912 in film years in film film Events October 27: David Horsleys, Nestor Motion Picture Company opens the first motion picture studio in Hollywood. ... Francis Ford (August 14, 1881 - September 5, 1953) a prolific film actor, writer, and director. ... See also: 1911 in film 1912 1913 in film years in film film Events Mack Sennett, who had previously worked as an actor and comedy director with D. W. Griffith, formed a new company, Keystone Studios, that played an important role in developing slapstick comedy. ... Lon Chaney (April 1, 1883 – August 26, 1930), nicknamed The Man of a Thousand Faces, was an American actor during the age of silent films. ... // Events The Squaw Man, the first Hollywood feature film, is made. ... Thomas Harper Ince (November 6, 1882–November 20, 1924) was an American film director. ... The Werewolf is a 1913 silent short that is the first werewolf film, directed by Henry MacRae. ... For other uses, see Werewolf (disambiguation). ... See also: 1913 in film 1914 1915 in film years in film film Events The 3,300-seat Strand Theater opens in New York City. ... David Lewelyn Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 - July 23, 1948) was an American film director (commonly known as D. W. Griffith) probably best known for his film The Birth of a Nation. ... Lillian Diana de Guiche (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993), was an Oscar-nominated American actress, better known as Lillian Gish. ... Donald Crisp (July 27, 1882 – May 25, 1974) was an Academy Award winning English film actor. ... Her Friend the Bandit is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios staring Charlie Chaplin. ... Charles Chaplin redirects here. ... Mabel Normand Mabel Normand (November 10, 1892 - February 23, 1930) was a US film actress, who was a popular comedienne in silent films. ... A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published in 1887. ... This article is about Arthur Conan Doyles fictional detective. ... Upton Sinclair Jr. ... For the episode of The Twilight Zone, see The Jungle (The Twilight Zone). ... This article refers to the novel by Tolstoy. ... // Events June 18 : The Motion Picture Directors Association (MPDA) was formed by twenty-six film directors in Los Angeles, California. ... J. Gordon Edwards, 1919-2004 Author, A Climbers Guide to Glacier National Park, emeritus professor of Biology, San Jose State University. ... Life Whithout Soul is a 1915 horror film, directed by Joseph W. Smiley and written by Jesse J. Goldburg. ... This article is about the 1818 novel. ... Clara Kimball Young Clara Kimball Young (September 6, 1890 - October 15, 1960) was a notable highly regarded and publicly popular film actress of the early silent film era. ... Valda Valkyrien, c. ... Theda Bara was the stage name of Theodosia Burr Goodman (July 29, 1885 - April 13, 1955), a silent film actress. ... A 1921 film by D.W. Griffith set in late 19th century France, before and during the French Revolution. ... Dorothy Gish photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1932 Dorothy Gish (March 11, 1898 - June 4, 1968) was an American actress. ... // Events November 19 - Samuel Goldfish (later renamed Samuel Goldwyn) and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Company (the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers). ... Wiliam Surrey Hart Movie poster for Harts 1916 western The Aryan in which he played a white (Anglo-Saxon) member of a Mexican gang, having turned against his own people. ... Bessie Love (September 10, 1898 - April 26, 1986) was an American motion picture actress. ... A Daughter of the Gods (1916) is a silent film notorious for featuring Annette Kellerman in the first ever nude scene by a major star. ... Annette Kellerman Annette Marie Sarah Kellermann (born July 6, 1887 in Sydney – died November 5, 1975 in Southport, Australia) was an Australian professional swimmer, vaudeville and film star, writer, and advocate for the change of womens swimwear. ... Camille is a 1917 film based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas. ... See also: 1916 in film 1917 1918 in film years in film film Events Technicolor is introduced Top grossing films Cleopatra Movies released Movies released in 1917 include: The Adventurer, a Charlie Chaplin short. ... Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle (1887-1933) in 1919 Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film comedian. ... Joseph Frank Buster Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an Academy Award-winning American comic actor and filmmaker. ... El Apóstol (The Apostle) is a 1917 Argentine animated film and is believed to be the first animated feature film. ... Paul Wegener (born December 11, 1874 in Arnoldsdorf (Westpreußen; now Jarantowice, Poland); died September 13, 1948 in Berlin) was a German actor and film director. ... The Gulf Between was the first motion picture made in Technicolor, and the first feature-length color movie produced in the United States. ... Grace Darmond (20 November 1898, Toronto - 8 October 1963, Los Angeles) was a American actress from the early 20th century. ... Niles Welch, (Niles Eugene Welch) also known as Niles Welsh, (29 July 1888 - 21 November 1976) was a performer in Broadway, and a leading man in a number of silent and early talking motion pictures from the early 1910s through the 1930s. ... Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe on April 28, 1878 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – November 15, 1954 in Van Nuys, California) was an American Academy Award Winning actor of stage, radio and film. ... Ethel Barrymore (August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was an Academy Award-winning American actress and a member of the famous Barrymore family. ... For other persons of the same name, see Benjamin Norris. ... McTeague is a novel by Frank Norris. ... This article is about the 1850 book. ... Stuart Holmes (10 March 1884, Chicago, Illinois - 29 December 1971, Hollywood, California) was an American actor whose career spanned 7 decades, starring in almost 450 films between 1909 and 1964. ... See also: 1917 in film 1918 1919 in film years in film film Events Following litigation for anti-trust activities, the US Supreme Court orders the Motion Picture Patents Company to disband. ... Douglas Fairbanks (May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer, who became noted for his swashbuckling roles in silent movies such as The Mark of Zorro (1920), The Three Musketeers (1921), Robin Hood (1922), The Thief of Bagdad (1924) and The Black Pirate (1926). ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... The Why We Fight Series depicts the Nazi propaganda machine. ... Rupert Julian (January 25, 1889 - December 27, 1943) was a cinema actor, director, writer and producer. ... Salomé is a silent film produced by William Fox. ... Clara Kimball Young Clara Kimball Young (September 6, 1890 - October 15, 1960) was a notable highly regarded and publicly popular film actress of the early silent film era. ... Milton Sills Milton Sills (January 12, 1882 - September 15, 1930) was a highly successful American stage and film actor of the early twentieth century. ... Anne of Green Gables (1919) is a silent film directed by William Desmond Taylor based upon the novel, Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. ... See also: 1918 in film 1919 1920 in film years in film film // Events February 5 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists Oscar Micheaux releases The Homesteader, becoming the first African-American to produce and direct a motion picture. ... William Desmond Taylor William Desmond Taylor (born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner) (April 26, 1872 – February 1, 1922) was an actor, successful US film director of silent movies and a popular figure in the growing Hollywood film colony of the 1910s and early 1920s. ... Mary Miles Minter (April 1, 1902 - August 4, 1984) was a U.S. film actor in silent films. ... Oscar Micheaux (1893-1951) Oscar Micheaux (January 2, 1893 – March 25, 1951) was a pioneering African American author and is widely recognized as being the first African-American filmmaker (although he was predated by the shortlived Lincoln Motion Picture Company[1]). He is without a doubt the most famous producer... Evelyn Preer Eveleyn Preer ( July 16, 1896 - November 27, 1932) was a notable pioneering African-American stage and screen actress and accomplished blues singer of the 1910s through the early 1930s. ... Three Godfathers is a 1948 western film directed by John Ford. ... For other persons named John Ford, see John Ford (disambiguation). ...

1920s

• The Prince of Avenue A (1920) - Directed by John Ford.
• Sehnsucht (1920) - Directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Conrad Veidt.
• The Devil's Passkey (1920) - Directed by Erich von Stroheim.
• Drakula halála (1921) - The first filmed version of the Dracula story. This Hungarian film preceded Nosferatu by over a year.
• Humor Risk (1921) - The first film to feature the Marx Brothers.
• The Lotus Eater (1921) - Starring John Barrymore and Colleen Moore.
• The Freeze Out (1921) - Directed by John Ford (credited as Jack Ford).
• Clarence (1922) - Starring Wallace Reid and Adolphe Menjou.
• Number 13 (1922) - An uncompleted film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
• One Glorious Day (1922) - Starring Will Rogers.
• The Daring Years (1923) - Starring Mildred Harris, Charles Emmett Mack and Clara Bow.
• Flaming Youth (1923) - Starring Colleen Moore and Milton Sills.
• Hollywood (1923) - Contained cameos of many silent film stars playing themselves.
• Hoodman Blind (1923) - Directed by John Ford.
• The World's Applause (1923) - Directed by William de Mille, starring Bebe Daniels.
• Wanderer of the Wasteland (1924) - A Technicolor feature starring Billie Dove.
• A Sainted Devil (1924) - Starring Rudolph Valentino and Nita Naldi.
• So Big (1924) - Starring Colleen Moore.
• The Fighting Heart (1925) - Directed by John Ford and starring Billie Dove
• That Royale Girl (1925) - Directed by D.W. Griffith and starring W.C. Fields.
• Madame Sans-Gêne (1925) - Starring Gloria Swanson.
• Arirang (1926) - Korean film starring and directed by Na Woon-gyu.
• A Woman of the Sea (1926) - Starring Edna Purviance and produced by Charlie Chaplin, destroyed by Chaplin himself in 1933 as a tax write-off.
• The Street of Sin (1926) - Starring Emil Jannings and Fay Wray.
• The Cat's Pajamas (1926) - Directed by William Wellman.
• Humor Risk (1926) - Starring the Marx Brothers.
• The Great Gatsby (1926) - Starring Warner Baxter, Lois Wilson, and William Powell.
• The Mountain Eagle (1926) - Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
• A Social Celebrity (1926) - Starring Adolphe Menjou and Louise Brooks.
• Just Another Blonde (1926) - Starring Louise Brooks.
• London After Midnight (1927) - Starring Lon Chaney, Sr. and Marceline Day; reconstructed in 2002 using stills and original script.
• The City Gone Wild (1927) - Starring Louise Brooks.
• Babe Comes Home (1927) - Starring Anna Q Nilsson.
• The Couple in Name (1927) - Starring Ruan Lingyu.
• Evening Clothes (1927) - Starring Adolphe Menjou and Louise Brooks.
• For the Love of Mike (1927) - Starring Claudette Colbert.
• Hats Off (1927) - Laurel & Hardy comedy.
• The Potters (1927) - Starring W.C. Fields.
• Rolled Stockings (1927) - Starring Louise Brooks.
• Taxi! Taxi! (1927) - Starring Edward Everett Horton.
• The Way of All Flesh (1927) - Starring Emil Jannings, the only Academy Award-winning performance to be lost.
• Thérèse Raquin (1928) - Directed by Jacques Feyder.
• Ladies of the Mob (1928) - Directed by William Wellman and starring Clara Bow.
• Legion of the Condemned (1928) - Directed by William Wellman and starring Fay Wray and Gary Cooper.
• The Dragnet (1928) - Directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring William Powell and Evelyn Brent.
• Dry Martini (1928) - Starring Mary Astor.
• Manhattan Cocktail (1928) - Directed by Dorothy Arzner, a one-minute montage sequence from this film, Manhattan Skyline by Slavko Vorkapich, was released in October 2005 in the DVD collection Unseen Cinema.
• The Air Circus (1928) - Directed by Howard Hawks.
• 4 Devils (1928) - Directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Janet Gaynor.
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928) - The first version of the Anita Loos story starring Alice White and Ruth Taylor.
• The White Cloud Pagoda (1928) - Starring Ruan Lingyu.
• The Case of Lena Smith (1929) - Directed by Josef von Sternberg; (a few minutes exist).
• Strong Boy (1929) - Directed by John Ford.
• The Cavalier (1929) - A Technicolor film starring Richard Talmadge.
• Is Everybody Happy? (1929) - Starring Ted Lewis; complete soundtrack survives, plus one reel of picture.
• Queen of the Nightclubs (1929) - Starring Texas Guinan.

See also: 1919 in film 1920 1921 in film 1920s in film years in film film Events November 28 - The Mask of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. ... For other persons named John Ford, see John Ford (disambiguation). ... Sehnsucht was a 1920 Silent film directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Conrad Veidt. ... F W Murnau Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (December 28, 1888 - March 11, 1931) was one of the most influential directors of the silent film era. ... Conrad Veidt in The Spy in Black (1939). ... Erich von Stroheim (September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was an Austrian - American star of the silent film age, lauded for his directional work in which he was a proto-auteur. ... See also: 1920 in film 1921 1922 in film 1920s in film years in film film Events February 20 - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres. ... This article is about the novel. ... This article is about the 1922 silent film. ... Humor Risk (probably 1921) is the first (but never released) Marx Brothers film, and is listed by the Internet Movie Database as lost. ... This article is about the comedian siblings. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This article is about John Barrymore, Sr. ... Colleen Moore, born Kathleen Morrison (August 19, 1900 – January 25, 1988) was an American film actress, and one of the most fashionable stars of the silent film era. ... See also: 1921 in film 1922 1923 in film 1920s in film years in film film Events November 26 - Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so but it was not widely... Wallace Reid Wallace Reid, born April 15, 1891 in St. ... Adolphe Menjou Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor of French and Irish descent. ... In 1922 Alfred Hitchcock obtained his first shot at directing for Gainsborough Pictures with the film Number 13 (or Mrs. ... Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (August 13, 1899 â€“ April 29, 1980) was an iconic and highly influential British-born film director and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres. ... William Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was a Cherokee-American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer, and actor. ... The Daring Years is the title of a 1923 independently released American silent motion picture melodrama. ... See also: 1922 in film 1923 1924 in film 1920s in film years in film film // Events April 15 - Lee De Forest demonstrates the Phonofilm sound-on-film system at the Rivoli Theater in New York with a series of short musical films featuring vaudeville performers. ... Mildred Harris Mildred Harris (November 29, 1901 - July 20, 1944) was a notable actress of the silent film era. ... Clara Gordon Bow (July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) was an American actress and sex symbol who rose to fame in the silent film era of the 1920s. ... Milton Sills Milton Sills (January 12, 1882 - September 15, 1930) was a highly successful American stage and film actor of the early twentieth century. ... Bebe Daniels (January 14, 1901 - March 16, 1971) was an American actress. ... Wanderer of the Wasteland is a 1924 silent western film. ... See also: 1923 in film 1924 1925 in film 1920s in film years in film film // Events Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) considers making a silent film of The Wizard of Oz. ... Billie Dove (born May 14, 1900 (although most sources incorrectly ascribed the year 1903; died December 31, 1997) was an American actress. ... Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor, sex symbol, and early pop icon. ... Nita Naldi Nita Naldi (April 1, 1897 - February 17, 1961) was one of the most successful silent film actresses of the Roaring Twenties. ... So Big! is a 1932 film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, and Bette Davis. ... See also: 1924 in film 1925 1926 in film 1920s in film years in film film Events Top grossing films Ben-Hur His People The Unholy Three The Freshman Movies released Movies released in 1925 include: Ben-Hur, starring Ramon Novarro. ... David Lewelyn Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 - July 23, 1948) was an American film director (commonly known as D. W. Griffith) probably best known for his film The Birth of a Nation. ... W