Re: the first movie being popular even though it had a strange plot, it actually made me think about how many film concepts we take for granted because they're successful but are actually really odd on paper. Imagine if Batman had been lost, for instance: "It takes place in this city called Gotham where crime is really high, and the main character is a super rich guy who decides to go out into the night dressed as a bat in order to fight off the criminals. At one point he also fights a clown? It sounds super strange, but apparently it was popular in its day."
"So the series takes place in an underwater city called Bikini Bottom and follows the everyday adventures of a young sponge named Spongebob Squarepants, who works as a cook in a restaurant called the Krusty Krab. Other main caracters include Patrick, Spongebob's best friend; Mr. Krabs, the owner of the Krusty Krab; Squidward, Spongebob's neighbor and co-worker serving as the cashier of the Krusty Krab; and Plankton, the owner of a rival restaurant called the Chum Bucket who wants to get the Krusty Krab's secret formula in order for his restaurant to succeed. It sounds really bizarre, but apparently it was the most popular cartoon back in the day"
My grandma swears up-and-down that when she was a kid in the late 40's she was in an independent film with some actor that had some reknown. I tried researching it and found nothing, so I just assumed it was a story. Maybe it was real and is just lost, huh...
VHS tape is estimated to be good for 80 years in an air conditioned environment. Laserdisc are already starting to have disc rot, so make sure you have digital backups. There is a lot of films that are only on VHS, never making it to DVD or Bluray.
@@Revacholiere I have a lot of vhs from 1978 and 1979 and they all play perfectly. The first vhs were actually very high grade tape stock, really good quality. They’re heavy as bricks. Its the newer, later vhs that play like crap after companies started cutting costs. But those tapes are over 50 years old, and they play as good as new. I also use something called a Tapechek machine, which cleans the tape safely, removes all dirt and debris with a sapphire burnishing blade and special cloth, and retensions the reel back to where it should be. (Tape reels loosen over time after being played.) I also keep my collection in a controlled environment, reduce as much humidity as possible, and kept cool. If you take care of your stuff, it will last. I remember when people told me dvd would outlast vhs, and now I look back at all those dvds that don’t play well anymore because of some small scratches or something they skip, they’re ruined. Or burned dvd-r’s, those really have no lifespan whatsoever. I can drop a tape on the floor multiple times and it’ll still play. I can scratch the cassette case all i want and the tape inside is unaffected.
It's interesting how lost silent film searches reveal how small we are. There's so much land and buildings to traverse that it takes people years just to find one single piece of lost film. Not to mention that a lot of old movies and snippets end up somewhere completely different than expected.
Watching the full 8+ hour version of Greed would be an interesting experience. I remember watching the HBO silent Hollywood documentary where some people who worked on it and saw it talked about how watching the whole thing was physically and mentally exhausting, but one of the greatest motion picture experiences they had ever had and would never forget
In those days of early silent film, watching a movie really was an experience. Theatre was usually a luxuriously decorated palace (sometimes modeled after an Egyptian temple, live orchestral music, everyone wore gowns or tuxedos, movie theater ushers and attendees dressed like 17th century toy soldiers......yeah nothing like the multiplex today.
I don't know why the diredct von Stroheim while he still had the negative for the full version didn't have a print made for himself before it was taken away from him
14:01 There's also an unconfirmed film that was shot while the Titanic was on sea by filmmaker William Harbeck. Now, this is coming from second class passenger and school teacher, Lawrence Beesley when he recalled what he saw while the ship was in motion - he noted in his book, "The Loss of the SS Titanic" that he witnessed a passenger filming the ship just as she had a near collision with the New York. Assumingely, if this was Harbeck, when the ship collided with the iceberg, and everyone had to evacuate the ship, he left his camera in his cabin. Sadly, Harbeck did not survive the night and his camera was lost forever. Now, this is the only lost Titanic film as other than the Harbeck footage, she was also filmed from 1909 to 1911. Out of these 5 films, only 1 survives and that's when she's leaving Southampton, just prior to her maiden voyage. The speculated reason these films were lost was due to the Belfast Blitz during World War 2 when the Harland and Wolff offices were bombed and a large portion of their archive was destroyed.
I think the only surviving film of Titanic is the one from which the still in this video (14:00) is taken. ruclips.net/video/G1aGVEjiGus/видео.html My thoughts about the Belfast Blitz ... IDK, it's odd that the films of both other Olympians' launches survives, as I'd assume all three would've been stored in roughly the same place. Crazy to even think about it. I'm glad SOME films are still around ^^ ruclips.net/video/-cCX4a3f4Ss/видео.html
The lost film I most want to see is The First Men in the Moon (1919). It was the first feature length movie based on an H.G. Wells novel, and one of the earliest spaceflight films. I'm sad it's often overlooked, possibly because the source material isn't as well known as other Wells novels, despite being my favorite of his works. Fortunately, a decent number of stills and a summary survived, but it only makes me wish even more that I could see the full film. At least I'll always have Ray Harryhausen and Mark Gatiss' versions.
I suspect for any of us who grew up on H.G. Wells' books, ALL the novels and novellas from his seminal years are famous. And very Trekkie-like, we're stunned when we meet people who didn't know the titles.
There are two Laurel & Hardy films that belong on this list: "Hats Off" (1927) and "The Rogue's Song" (1930). "Hats Off" was an early version of their Oscar winning short "The Music Box" (1932)- even filmed on the same flight of steps! Only stills and a shooting script exist. "Rogue's Song" was mainly a vehicle for Opera star Lawrence Tibbett. Stan & Ollie were added after the movie had already been put to bed- it was decided the movie was too dark and needed some comic relief! It was also one of the first Technicolor epics and the unstable nature of that nitrate pretty much guaranteed it would NOT be preserved! The soundtrack survived! A few individual scenes have been discovered (one- a Laurel & Hardy gag- is on RUclips!) but a complete print has yet to turn up... and this late-in-the-game probably never will...!
I would say something along the lines of "Get this man a VCR!" but I seem to be 2 years too late at this time and I assume you don't have that copy anymore.
So many films have been lost that it’s quite sad, especially when hearing the description for some of them as well as having some films of the cast and crew around to watch, such as Lon Chaney, and we can see how talented they were. Let’s hope someday, some if not all of these films will be found and be able to be viewed again. Great video man!
I wrote the article on the Lost Media Wiki for the Big City film. Sadly, so much of his work is lost. These two aren't even his biggest lost movies either. (London after Midnight and The Miracle Man would be my two picks)
Well researched. Otherwise thought-lost films do turn up. I recently was given a reel of 35mm nitrate film from the 1928 'Tropic Madness' which I scanned, edited and uploaded. Luckily with knowledge of the complete plot the single 13 minute reel stands alone as a coherent work. Quite touching it is too. This is listed as a lost film by the Library of Congress. Luckily have been able to scan and save a few otherwise considered lost segments.
The Patriot is also worth looking into. The only Best Picture nominee (1929 if memory serves) that's lost, unless it was found and I don't know about it.
In a film class in the 70s, I saw the 140 minute cut of Greed. I'm a big fan of silent film, but Greed failed to knock me out! I liked films like Metropolis, The General and City Lights much more!
I loved Greed. A thought abt City Lights, though. I actually consider it a sound film, because Chaplin "faked" the silent with an actual track with sound effects and a music score. More like a Benny Hill! Same with Modern Times.
Of course there were two big factors that would cull down the number of saved movies before 1950. One is that they were made from nitrate stock which is so combustible, films were known to melt into goo and/or even burn up on their own for no apparent reason. Secondly, the studios often would meltdown old film stock to try to reuse it or even deliberately destroy older movies when a performer fell out of favor. The latter happened to Peggy-Jean Montgomery (later Diana Serra Cary) (1918-2020) who made over a hundred films as 'Baby Peggy' from the time she was eighteen months to five-years-old but her father angered the wrong studio head one time too many and not only did she get fired but almost all her films got delberately destroyed by the studio! Then when movies went to sound in 1929, a lot of silents were destroyed because the studios wanted to show how modern they were!
I did read that a few years ago they found a full copy of a silent film by John Ford in of all places a rest home in New Zealand. So you never know what will turn up.
I am from Finland and here film archiving has always been surprisingly good. But there are some lost Finnish films. The most famous lost movie here is the first fictional Finnish movie Salaviinanpolttajat (The Moonshiners) from 1907. There is plenty of info available about that movie because it was featured in the newspaper articles of that time but all the copies of that film have been lost.
I heard that the original screenplay for this film has been lost as well. Also, speaking of lost Finnish films, a fire occurred at the Adams-Filmi (a major Finnish film production company) vaults in 1959, and many films (including three early films directed by Teuvo Tulio) were destroyed. Another important lost Finnish film is Finlandia (1922), a government-produced propaganda/documentary film.
I'd be curious to see 1913's The Battle of Gettysburg, which predated Birth of a Nation. Some footage was incorporated into the Sennett comedy Cohen Saves the Flag and that film exists.
It's such a shame Humor Risk will never be found, because if it was, last year would have been the Marx Brothers' 100th anniversary on screen. Wish we had a time machine to witness it ourselves.
there's a lost polish movie about a young athlete and its sad that besides some " scenery " shots its most likely gone forever but the people who watched the movie back then embraced it warmly
📣📣📣📣We Must Find The 1919 Film Of Lon Chaney’s Breakthrough Role In “ The Miracle Man “ ...rumor has it that there IS A COMPLETE PRINT OUT THERE SOMEWHERE 📣📣📣📣
I would add Lon Chaney's 1927 film "London After Midnight." There are lots of photos of Chaney's iconic vampire makeup, but the film is lost. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_After_Midnight_(film)
That film "greed," a few years back Australian public TV ran a 5.5/ 6 hour cut of it. It was an ALL day thing!! There were some missing parts, in about 20-30 minutes allotments. But it was majestic. And the last act was superb. And Zasu Pitts was amazing.
The statement that 90% of silent films are lost is inaccurate. It's actually 75% still a lot, about 3, 300 silent features survive though not all are complete.
Adolfas Mekas' A Double-Barrelled Detective Story, based on a short story by Mark Twain, was favourably reviewed by Variety in early 1967. One of the backers wanted the print or his money back so the print was put into storage somewhere and has never been seen since.
I s2g Mussolini shows up and is mentioned in the strangest places, in Africa invading Ethiopia pre-ww2 to expand Italy's colonial holdings, mentioned by a main character in an organized crime movie who wants to assassinate him, and now maybe having had a lost film that may have been the Citizen Kane, or if we're going by length, the Lord of the Rings of its day At this rate i'm gonna find out that he was a proto-furry, and don't even get me started on that time everyone saw him at a gas station... **woof**
I'm sad so many of these films have been lost. If I could time travel, I would save any reels possible. The giant Buddha one in particular fascinates me; I just gotta see how the effects were done.
Guess it's my turn to be that guy. Number 6 is pronounced as The Life of Nee-fie, rhymes with me fly. Raised Mormon is Utah, but stopped going to church as a teen.
Wondering this as well. Stylistically, it looks like an early 20th Century Soviet avant-garde film, like Man With a Movie Camera or Aelita, Queen of Mars, though I don't think it's either of those specifically.
...film was made with silver nitrate back then. If you were trying to be deadpan sarcastic- yet of course still knew that, bravo. it you didn't, then its YOU that needs to "'to read a book sometime'!" 🤣👍🏻
Wow. That was interesting about "The Crowd Roars" - as I remember vividly that it was shown here in Los Angeles on Channel 52 when they had their nightly program "Hollywood Movie Classics". But I might add that was in the early 1970s, so I guess we got the version with the two movies cut in. Hmmmm......
Props to those 12 people for sticking around for the whole thing, hope they at least got a intermission half way through so they could use the bathroom.
that's the fun thing about the early days of films. there were really no such thing as "standard" movie lengths. it all depended on money, access to film reels, and, quite frankly, the director's impulse control. that's why you get some films that were 10 minutes long and some that were 8 hours long. the expected film length of around two hours didn't become industry standard honestly until the beginning of the sound era.
Other films lost - Burning of the Red Lotus Temple, Little Iodine 1948, Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales, London After Midnight, Batman Dracula, Cleopatra 1917, Woman of the Sea
Would all film projectionists always have respected copyright and always returned the copy to destruction, we would possibly have 10 % of the historical movies, we have. So copyright can destroy history.
That MGM fire is honestly the cinematic equivalent to the burning of the library of Alexandria
true
@@toastrave7820 And the Fox vault fire
Honestly that is the best comparison I’ve seen to comparing to how much significance there was of the loss of history.
@@ARC1300 Thank you!
or the univeral music group fire in 2008
Number 15 is so lost it wasn’t even on the list
*Spoiler alert*
It was the burger king foot lettuce movie
damn
Number 15. Could I get a number 15?
😂😂😂😂😂
Re: the first movie being popular even though it had a strange plot, it actually made me think about how many film concepts we take for granted because they're successful but are actually really odd on paper.
Imagine if Batman had been lost, for instance: "It takes place in this city called Gotham where crime is really high, and the main character is a super rich guy who decides to go out into the night dressed as a bat in order to fight off the criminals. At one point he also fights a clown? It sounds super strange, but apparently it was popular in its day."
Incredible point.
"So the series takes place in an underwater city called Bikini Bottom and follows the everyday adventures of a young sponge named Spongebob Squarepants, who works as a cook in a restaurant called the Krusty Krab. Other main caracters include Patrick, Spongebob's best friend; Mr. Krabs, the owner of the Krusty Krab; Squidward, Spongebob's neighbor and co-worker serving as the cashier of the Krusty Krab; and Plankton, the owner of a rival restaurant called the Chum Bucket who wants to get the Krusty Krab's secret formula in order for his restaurant to succeed. It sounds really bizarre, but apparently it was the most popular cartoon back in the day"
My grandma swears up-and-down that when she was a kid in the late 40's she was in an independent film with some actor that had some reknown. I tried researching it and found nothing, so I just assumed it was a story. Maybe it was real and is just lost, huh...
Or dementia
Dementia
Not dementia
If this indie film *was* real, then try asking her what the story for it was.
That's exactly why some friends of mine and I are buying old vhs and laserdisc so that nothing will be lost anymore. Great video man.
make sure to digitise them, physical media will fail eventually even if it's not in a fire
@@Revacholiere you need those digital backups
VHS tape is estimated to be good for 80 years in an air conditioned environment. Laserdisc are already starting to have disc rot, so make sure you have digital backups. There is a lot of films that are only on VHS, never making it to DVD or Bluray.
@@Revacholiere I have a lot of vhs from 1978 and 1979 and they all play perfectly. The first vhs were actually very high grade tape stock, really good quality. They’re heavy as bricks. Its the newer, later vhs that play like crap after companies started cutting costs. But those tapes are over 50 years old, and they play as good as new. I also use something called a Tapechek machine, which cleans the tape safely, removes all dirt and debris with a sapphire burnishing blade and special cloth, and retensions the reel back to where it should be. (Tape reels loosen over time after being played.) I also keep my collection in a controlled environment, reduce as much humidity as possible, and kept cool. If you take care of your stuff, it will last. I remember when people told me dvd would outlast vhs, and now I look back at all those dvds that don’t play well anymore because of some small scratches or something they skip, they’re ruined. Or burned dvd-r’s, those really have no lifespan whatsoever. I can drop a tape on the floor multiple times and it’ll still play. I can scratch the cassette case all i want and the tape inside is unaffected.
u gotta start a website or something so someday it will have a place when all other versions are lost
It's interesting how lost silent film searches reveal how small we are. There's so much land and buildings to traverse that it takes people years just to find one single piece of lost film. Not to mention that a lot of old movies and snippets end up somewhere completely different than expected.
Watching the full 8+ hour version of Greed would be an interesting experience. I remember watching the HBO silent Hollywood documentary where some people who worked on it and saw it talked about how watching the whole thing was physically and mentally exhausting, but one of the greatest motion picture experiences they had ever had and would never forget
i think it could have been successful if they had run it like a serial, like in 8 installments over 2 or 3 months.
In those days of early silent film, watching a movie really was an experience. Theatre was usually a luxuriously decorated palace (sometimes modeled after an Egyptian temple, live orchestral music, everyone wore gowns or tuxedos, movie theater ushers and attendees dressed like 17th century toy soldiers......yeah nothing like the multiplex today.
I don't know why the diredct von Stroheim while he still had the negative for the full version didn't have a print made for himself before it was taken away from him
14:01 There's also an unconfirmed film that was shot while the Titanic was on sea by filmmaker William Harbeck. Now, this is coming from second class passenger and school teacher, Lawrence Beesley when he recalled what he saw while the ship was in motion - he noted in his book, "The Loss of the SS Titanic" that he witnessed a passenger filming the ship just as she had a near collision with the New York. Assumingely, if this was Harbeck, when the ship collided with the iceberg, and everyone had to evacuate the ship, he left his camera in his cabin. Sadly, Harbeck did not survive the night and his camera was lost forever. Now, this is the only lost Titanic film as other than the Harbeck footage, she was also filmed from 1909 to 1911. Out of these 5 films, only 1 survives and that's when she's leaving Southampton, just prior to her maiden voyage. The speculated reason these films were lost was due to the Belfast Blitz during World War 2 when the Harland and Wolff offices were bombed and a large portion of their archive was destroyed.
I think the only surviving film of Titanic is the one from which the still in this video (14:00) is taken. ruclips.net/video/G1aGVEjiGus/видео.html
My thoughts about the Belfast Blitz ... IDK, it's odd that the films of both other Olympians' launches survives, as I'd assume all three would've been stored in roughly the same place. Crazy to even think about it. I'm glad SOME films are still around ^^ ruclips.net/video/-cCX4a3f4Ss/видео.html
The lost film I most want to see is The First Men in the Moon (1919). It was the first feature length movie based on an H.G. Wells novel, and one of the earliest spaceflight films. I'm sad it's often overlooked, possibly because the source material isn't as well known as other Wells novels, despite being my favorite of his works. Fortunately, a decent number of stills and a summary survived, but it only makes me wish even more that I could see the full film. At least I'll always have Ray Harryhausen and Mark Gatiss' versions.
I suspect for any of us who grew up on H.G. Wells' books, ALL the novels and novellas from his seminal years are famous. And very Trekkie-like, we're stunned when we meet people who didn't know the titles.
There are two Laurel & Hardy films that belong on this list: "Hats Off" (1927) and "The Rogue's Song" (1930).
"Hats Off" was an early version of their Oscar winning short "The Music Box" (1932)- even filmed on the same flight of steps! Only stills and a shooting script exist.
"Rogue's Song" was mainly a vehicle for Opera star Lawrence Tibbett. Stan & Ollie were added after the movie had already been put to bed- it was decided the movie was too dark and needed some comic relief! It was also one of the first Technicolor epics and the unstable nature of that nitrate pretty much guaranteed it would NOT be preserved! The soundtrack survived! A few individual scenes have been discovered (one- a Laurel & Hardy gag- is on RUclips!) but a complete print has yet to turn up... and this late-in-the-game probably never will...!
For me, L&H have to be in sound. Their routines relied so much on it. The cries of pain from Oliver Hardy belong in a museum.
Turner has a recreation based on the volume of stills available. It's pretty clever.
Those films will be a fine addition to our collection if we find them
Yes, they will, Mr. Grevious ;)
Ah the negotiator
I still have a VHS copy of GREED that I captured from the only time it was shown on tv (TBS, I think). However, since I don't have a vcr,.....
I would say something along the lines of "Get this man a VCR!" but I seem to be 2 years too late at this time and I assume you don't have that copy anymore.
So many films have been lost that it’s quite sad, especially when hearing the description for some of them as well as having some films of the cast and crew around to watch, such as Lon Chaney, and we can see how talented they were. Let’s hope someday, some if not all of these films will be found and be able to be viewed again. Great video man!
First entry and I'm already sad. Hate when I can't watch all of Lon Chaney.
Ah God not the third one too
I wrote the article on the Lost Media Wiki for the Big City film. Sadly, so much of his work is lost. These two aren't even his biggest lost movies either. (London after Midnight and The Miracle Man would be my two picks)
Especially London After Midnight. I've always wanted to check that one out.
You should do more videos dedicated to movies like this. Old lost films are always an interesting topic.
Well researched. Otherwise thought-lost films do turn up. I recently was given a reel of 35mm nitrate film from the 1928 'Tropic Madness' which I scanned, edited and uploaded. Luckily with knowledge of the complete plot the single 13 minute reel stands alone as a coherent work. Quite touching it is too. This is listed as a lost film by the Library of Congress. Luckily have been able to scan and save a few otherwise considered lost segments.
The Patriot is also worth looking into. The only Best Picture nominee (1929 if memory serves) that's lost, unless it was found and I don't know about it.
In a film class in the 70s, I saw the 140 minute cut of Greed. I'm a big fan of silent film, but Greed failed to knock me out! I liked films like Metropolis, The General and City Lights much more!
I guess the other six hours and twenty minutes were the really good part.
And since we will never see those parts at least I will be at a loss on what the good parts might be.
I loved Greed. A thought abt City Lights, though. I actually consider it a sound film, because Chaplin "faked" the silent with an actual track with sound effects and a music score. More like a Benny Hill! Same with Modern Times.
With how famous Lon Cheney is, a lot of his movies seem to be lost.
Surprised ‘Cleopatra’ isn’t on the list.
Of course there were two big factors that would cull down the number of saved movies before 1950. One is that they were made from nitrate stock which is so combustible, films were known to melt into goo and/or even burn up on their own for no apparent reason. Secondly, the studios often would meltdown old film stock to try to reuse it or even deliberately destroy older movies when a performer fell out of favor. The latter happened to Peggy-Jean Montgomery (later Diana Serra Cary) (1918-2020) who made over a hundred films as 'Baby Peggy' from the time she was eighteen months to five-years-old but her father angered the wrong studio head one time too many and not only did she get fired but almost all her films got delberately destroyed by the studio! Then when movies went to sound in 1929, a lot of silents were destroyed because the studios wanted to show how modern they were!
Truly some idiotic savages get put in charge of the exact things the shouldn't be anywhere near
Thank god we still have the entire library of Pauly Shore. They'll be with us... forever.
Universal Studios also intentionally destroyed their silent film negatives in 1948😞, I believe Universal has the lowest survival rate
That's tragic.
Actually, a humongous portion of silent films were destroyed as people thought there was no need to preserve them back in the day.
Thought this was a blameitonjorge upload for a sec.
Convention city is proof that warner bros has always been the more edgy studio compared to Disney or MGM
I did read that a few years ago they found a full copy of a silent film by John Ford in of all places a rest home in New Zealand. So you never know what will turn up.
I am from Finland and here film archiving has always been surprisingly good. But there are some lost Finnish films. The most famous lost movie here is the first fictional Finnish movie Salaviinanpolttajat (The Moonshiners) from 1907. There is plenty of info available about that movie because it was featured in the newspaper articles of that time but all the copies of that film have been lost.
I heard that the original screenplay for this film has been lost as well. Also, speaking of lost Finnish films, a fire occurred at the Adams-Filmi (a major Finnish film production company) vaults in 1959, and many films (including three early films directed by Teuvo Tulio) were destroyed. Another important lost Finnish film is Finlandia (1922), a government-produced propaganda/documentary film.
Film is art. Anytime art is lost, its a tragedy.
Same with music and games
Preach my friend, preach
I'd be curious to see 1913's The Battle of Gettysburg, which predated Birth of a Nation. Some footage was incorporated into the Sennett comedy Cohen Saves the Flag and that film exists.
I'm hopeful that some of these lost films will be found someday. We keep finding more previously-thought lost works every year.
Who knows, maybe SourceBrew may just have some of these films in his attic. Tell us!
It's such a shame Humor Risk will never be found, because if it was, last year would have been the Marx Brothers' 100th anniversary on screen. Wish we had a time machine to witness it ourselves.
Every camera and every recording device is a time machine.
I've seen Indianapolis Speedway in the last 6 months on TCM. I had the impression what was reused was the actual racing scenes which had real racers.
there's a lost polish movie about a young athlete and its sad that besides some " scenery " shots
its most likely gone forever but the people who watched the movie back then embraced it warmly
It’s kinda sad that The Jungle was lost, it’s one thing to read about the horror was the meat packing industry it’s another thing to see it
📣📣📣📣We Must Find The 1919 Film Of Lon Chaney’s Breakthrough Role In “ The Miracle Man “ ...rumor has it that there IS A COMPLETE PRINT OUT THERE SOMEWHERE 📣📣📣📣
I would add Lon Chaney's 1927 film "London After Midnight." There are lots of photos of Chaney's iconic vampire makeup, but the film is lost. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_After_Midnight_(film)
That film "greed," a few years back Australian public TV ran a 5.5/ 6 hour cut of it. It was an ALL day thing!! There were some missing parts, in about 20-30 minutes allotments. But it was majestic. And the last act was superb.
And Zasu Pitts was amazing.
Super interesting video bud!! Learned a lot of new things today
I don't care how terrible that lost Hitchcock film is, I'll still watch it, he's my favourite filmmaker after all.
The statement that 90% of silent films are lost is inaccurate. It's actually 75% still a lot, about 3, 300 silent features survive though not all are complete.
Adolfas Mekas' A Double-Barrelled Detective Story, based on a short story by Mark Twain, was favourably reviewed by Variety in early 1967. One of the backers wanted the print or his money back so the print was put into storage somewhere and has never been seen since.
I s2g Mussolini shows up and is mentioned in the strangest places, in Africa invading Ethiopia pre-ww2 to expand Italy's colonial holdings, mentioned by a main character in an organized crime movie who wants to assassinate him, and now maybe having had a lost film that may have been the Citizen Kane, or if we're going by length, the Lord of the Rings of its day
At this rate i'm gonna find out that he was a proto-furry, and don't even get me started on that time everyone saw him at a gas station... **woof**
Interestingly, the first "Ariran" image you show is in Japanese. I wonder if it also got a release in Japan.
Save from the Titantic is a strong contender for the most instentive film.
Ikr? Talk about too soon.
I'm sad so many of these films have been lost. If I could time travel, I would save any reels possible.
The giant Buddha one in particular fascinates me; I just gotta see how the effects were done.
Guess it's my turn to be that guy. Number 6 is pronounced as The Life of Nee-fie, rhymes with me fly.
Raised Mormon is Utah, but stopped going to church as a teen.
Perhaps *The Life of Nephi* has been removed to the same location as the original golden plates of *The Book of Mormon.*
I would add "The Mircale Man", "The Way of All Flesh", and "Hats Off!".
Script writer: How many "however"s do you want in that 17 minutes long video?
Sourcebrew: Yes.
A blind bargain 1921 Lon Chaney silent...also lost
Batman Fights Dracula 1967 should be on this list
ruclips.net/video/kr3dKb1X_5o/видео.html
What was the film used in the countdown transitions?
i think it might be Metropolis but i'm not sure.
Wondering this as well. Stylistically, it looks like an early 20th Century Soviet avant-garde film, like Man With a Movie Camera or Aelita, Queen of Mars, though I don't think it's either of those specifically.
It's the trailer for "The Big City"(movie number 12 on the video)
I'm glad no one commercialized the Titanic disaster EVER AGAIN.
MGM Fire: The order 66 of the film industry
Saw the title, clicked and after immediately subscribed. Great work and great topic. Needs more info on it by everyone!
The Crowd Roars has been on TCM quite often. It is not lost!
Can you make one about lost videogames?
Early to mid 1900s Hollywood really had a thing for making movie with really flammable material, didn't they?
...film was made with silver nitrate back then. If you were trying to be deadpan sarcastic- yet of course still knew that, bravo. it you didn't, then its YOU that needs to "'to read a book sometime'!" 🤣👍🏻
Keep looking for these things, I am not sure how these are still lost.
Lets gooo sourcebrew upload
Once again another great video! Dont give up man! You have amazing skills!
I didn’t knew they existed thanks for sharing it with us Sourcebrew!
Wow. That was interesting about "The Crowd Roars" - as I remember vividly that it was shown here in Los Angeles on Channel 52 when they had their nightly program "Hollywood Movie Classics". But I might add that was in the early 1970s, so I guess we got the version with the two movies cut in. Hmmmm......
Will Ferrell in Greed? The father from the Brady Bunch? Who is that guy with curly hair from Greed?
Gibson Gowland is the actor's name. 😉
That’s Chad Smith. He also plays drums for the Red Hot Chili Peppers
This is a pretty great video 💯👏👏 good job bro
hold on a sec.... (spoilers alert)
8 HOURS LONG MOVIE?????
And people complain about ZL's Justice League
Props to those 12 people for sticking around for the whole thing, hope they at least got a intermission half way through so they could use the bathroom.
that's the fun thing about the early days of films. there were really no such thing as "standard" movie lengths. it all depended on money, access to film reels, and, quite frankly, the director's impulse control. that's why you get some films that were 10 minutes long and some that were 8 hours long. the expected film length of around two hours didn't become industry standard honestly until the beginning of the sound era.
Check out Andy Warhol's Empire
Cactus in the snow is a film with a similar story about its lost
Awesome video buddy
its weird to see things dont exist anymore
It might be possible for Batgirl, Coyote Vs. Acme, and Scoob Holiday Haunt to be part of this list as well.
80% of silent films were considered lost.
every time I watch a list of movies, I always add them to my LB watchlist and that’s what I almost did with this one but then I realised OH WAIT
Convention City ought to be #1 on the list......
Careful, you start adding student films, from places like N.Y.U., and you'll be here all night.
i would love to see the japanese king kong movies but they are probably lost forever
but I will make it one of my life's missions to find them.
My fair lady is so lost it's not even on this list the movie was made in 1956
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plot twist, the 15th film lost forever is the recording of the 15th entry of this list
Other films lost - Burning of the Red Lotus Temple, Little Iodine 1948, Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales, London After Midnight, Batman Dracula, Cleopatra 1917, Woman of the Sea
you should do a face reveal and the 20 lost/missing cartoon pilots
Lots of old films were melted down for their silver content, but others ended up as nail polish, depending on the film type.
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Does anybody know the origin of the animation used during the transitions? It looks really cool
I like how one of the first Kaiju movies was of a giant Buddha statue just going around Japan
i think some lost filims that were lot might have become some legendary movies if didnt have its bad end , i think even in india some movies are lost
Deadly Ape Girls is a lost classic
We actually have the script for London after midnight, i know there is a remake, but what about one in black in white?
Spider-Man VS Kraven The Hunter my beloved pls find them
What clip are you using for the transitions?
Your forgetting a lot of those lost silent silent horror films especially those Dracula films
There sure were a lot of fires in the past
I made music and then deleted it. Now it only exists in my mind. Which is odd and upsetting. How foolish I was.
Spider Man vs Kraven The Hunter has multiple copies that could exist
Everything will be lost forever in time.
Would all film projectionists always have respected copyright and always returned the copy to destruction, we would possibly have 10 % of the historical movies, we have.
So copyright can destroy history.
9:30 Was not expecting that, since I am a Mormon, haha
Should we tell him it's "Knee-fi"?
You said 15 but it's 14
the 15th must have been lost
Vote with your dollar.
"The life of Nefee", lol it's Kneefi
Yes.
Nice Video!
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