Lost Films of Silent Era Hollywood

Do you think London After Midnight will every be found?

#cleopatra #lostmedia #scifi

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I'm always amazed on how iconic the London After Midnight imagery has become despite the fact that no one here saw it

[fredhannum]

My Great Aunt (Lucille Tefft) was a credited extra in Cleopatra with Theda Bara. Her screen name was Taft. She was very successful and made enough money to purchase 400 acres in Camarillo California. She bred Tennessee Walking Horses, and had orchards growing oranges, lemons and avocados. She died at the age of 106. She was a great lady and I spent many summers at her ranch. She lived with her Brother Leon and Sister Bessie. She started her career as a model and became famous for her long flowing hair. She had a famous photo first used on large candy boxes, then purchased by Coca-Cola for advertising She was then known as a 'Gibson Girl ' she once owned the largest passenger car made the 1922 Pierce Arrow with the enclosed passenger section at the rear and the open section at front for the driver. We miss her very much ❤

[kicksmartjumpstick]

I'm a film student and it hurts me how many films are lost by many reasons, but in a way that makes the ones we still have as something very special...

In an university in Argentina, in which one if my teachers studied, was found the complete version of Metropolis. There's still hope!

[endermanwithalowercasee]

It's sad how many silent films are lost. I was really happy to see almost all footage from The Lost World 1925 was found and restored into the film in 2017

[mightyfilm]

That's why I despise when anyone ever says "Hollywood has run out of ideas." Remakes, sequels, and adaptions have ALWAYS been a part of cinema. But now I come to find out that making a sequel to a horror film a parody/comedic version of the first is also something a century old. And then a prequel for the third one, too.

[gabrielortiz]

One lost film I want to find is a 1917 Argentinian film called El Apostol. It was the first animated feature film, 20 years before Snow White.

[davidanttila]

The biggest shame is that even Silent films that are considered found are still mostly missing the sheet music that is meant to be played along with the movie.
Also what makes lost silent movies fun is you got confirmed as lost and believed lost.
With confirmed as found and believed lost scenes and confirmed as missing scenes.
So yes silent movies are an amazing topic with tons of twists and turns.

[Nerdtendo]

My favorite part of Cleopatra is how “obscene” they made the costumes. Like, they aren’t even that bad yet 1917 was a different time

[FatherStack]

I'm a huge fan of silent cinema, so it saddens me that so many films have been lost.

[aquasomethingyouknowwhatever]

lost media is actually what got me into silent films, which i’m a huuuuge fan of. id love to see you cover babe comes home and also the patriot!!!

[imjustanotherjess]

It’s so tragic that so many silent films are lost! I’d love for the rest of Clara Bow’s filmography to be found, especially.

[rockisheaven]

5:50 another interesting fact about Tenderloin: its star, Dolores Costello, is the grandmother of Drew Barrymore. Really puts into perspective how recent this history actually is.

[WhisperinWinds]

Definitely one of my fav lost media subjects. Thank you so much for covering it!

[jamie-ramone]

It is truly tragic how many films from this era are lost. I feel like there's so much historical significance to these movies from the earliest age of cinema, like there's so much insight to be gained about the medium as a whole in silent films and it's a shame how much of that content we will never see 😢 of course at the time, people's ability to preserve things like this was quite limited regardless of whether or not the desire was there, and due to the sheer age of these films the chances of finding salvageable film reels is slim. However, the rediscovery and subsequent preservation of significant films like Metropolis and The Passion of Joan of Arc does give me and others some hope! As a huge fan of horror movies I pray London After Midnight might resurface someday! 🙏

Anyways, a great video 😊 I think more vids on older stuff like these would be really interesting!

[Cheyenne_Hayden]

Loved the speech cards at the beginning mike! a nice touch for this topic

[jakeheye]

More Lost Media! I love learning about this: the history, the chases to try and search for it, and the research for it is really cool!

I love your videos dude!

[oldfilmsandstuff]

Over the last few years, I've been purchasing any reel of nitrate film (the highly flamable film used during the silent era) that I come across. So far, I've built up a collection of around 150 small reels of film. I would say about half of the films that I've actually scanned and been able to identify are otherwise lost or unavailable. Most of these have been very obscure productions without much historical significance but I have found the odd clip that has a real artistic flair or just an interesting vibe to it. My favourite of the bunch might be a segment of "A Lover's Oath" from 1924. You can find a lot of this stuff on my channel although a good portion of the films still need scanned and uploaded.

[Gappasaurus]

#1 on my wishlist is 1921’s “The Mechanical Man”, one of the first films to feature a fully-realized robot _(two_ in fact), and of which only about half still exists. Also, the two lost Japanese King Kong-inspired films of the 1930s, plus 1934’s “The Great Buddha Arrival”, about the giant statue going for a stroll across Japan, which recently got a remake/tribute movie. Only a few stills & promotional images from contemporary newspaper articles exist for these ☹️

[TheDigitalApple]

Whenever a lost silent film is found, it’s like finding the Holy Grail!

[creativeuserneim]

Thank you for covering this topic as I believe it's little talked about within the lost media community, due to the fact that many people in it are millennials and Gen z and are only gonna talk about things that are relevant to them understandably. The discovery of lost silent films is something that has fascinated me for years. Movies that I wished were found are all those early film directed by Black filmmakers; they were called "Race Films". Black filmmakers like Oscar Micheaux did them on a very little budget, they were among the first independent movies, and in the south were screened at times when only Black people were allowed in theaters. Sadly like a lot of movies of that era most of them are lost, as they were in very poor quality even after sound came in. Finding them it's very important as it would help us to understand a little bit more about the history of African American cinema.