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==1890s== |
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Revision as of 01:21, 19 April 2011
The following is a list of lost films, films that have lost, hidden or destroyed copies:
1890s
Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes | Ref |
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1899 | The Jeffries-Sharkey Contest | William A. Brady, Thomas O'Rourke | Jim Jeffries, Tom Sharkey | American Mutoscope & Biograph film of Heavyweight Championship bout, 135 minutes in length, first film shot in artificial light | [1] |
1900s
Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes | Ref |
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1908 | The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays | Francis Boggs, Otis Turner | L. Frank Baum | First adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and several of its sequels. Shown only in road show, the print decomposed and was discarded. | [2] |
1908 | Bobby's Kodak | Wallace McCutcheon, Sr. | Robert Harron, Edward Dillon | First starring role for then child actor Robert "Bobby" Harron | [3] |
1908 | The Music Master | Wallace McCutcheon, Jr. | D.W. Griffith | Most of D.W. Griffith's early appearances as an actor in Biograph films have been preserved. This title has never been found. | [4] |
1910s
1920s
1930s
Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes | Ref |
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1930 | Bride of the Regiment | Vivienne Segal | A Technicolor film, complete soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs | ||
1930 | The Cat Creeps | Rupert Julian | Helen Twelvetrees | Sound remake of The Cat and the Canary (1927). Short segment of The Cat Creeps included in short film Boo! (1932) is the only footage known to exist. | |
1930 | A Daughter of the Congo | Oscar Micheaux | Lorenzo Tucker | The last silent film by Oscar Micheaux | |
1930 | An Elastic Affair | Alfred Hitchcock | Short film made by Hitchcock for awards ceremony at the London Palladium in January 1930 | ||
1930 | Hit the Deck | Jack Oakie, Polly Walker | Part Technicolor, only the soundtrack to one reel survives | ||
1930 | Hold Everything | Winnie Lightner, Joe E. Brown | A Technicolor film, complete soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs | ||
1930 | Kismet | Loretta Young, Otis Skinner | Complete soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs | ||
1930 | Leathernecking | Irene Dunne | |||
1930 | Lummox | Ben Lyon, Winifred Westover | |||
1930 | The Man from Blankley's | John Barrymore, Loretta Young | Complete soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs | ||
1930 | Reminisces of Peking | Sun Yu | Ruan Lingyu | ||
1930 | Song of the Flame | Bernice Claire, Alexander Gray, Noah Beery | Academy Award nominee for Best Sound. Sound discs for five of the nine reels exist | ||
1930 | Song of the West | John Boles, Vivienne Segal, Joe E. Brown | All-color film made in Technicolor, complete soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs | ||
1930 | What a Widow! | Gloria Swanson | |||
1930 | The Case of Sergeant Grischa | Herbert Brenon | Chester Morris | Academy Award nominee for Best Sound | |
1930 | Wild Flowers | Sun Yu | Ruan Lingyu | ||
1931 | Age for Love | Billie Dove | |||
1931 | Charlie Chan Carries On | Warner Oland, Hamilton MacFadden | |||
1931 | Fanny Foley Herself | Edna May Oliver | All-color film made in Technicolor | ||
1931 | Woman Hungry | Clarence G. Badger | Lila Lee | All-color film made in Technicolor | |
1931 | Father's Son | Leon Janney, Lewis Stone | |||
1931 | Honor of the Family | Warren William, Bebe Daniels | |||
1931 | Peludópolis | Argentine production; the world's first animated feature film with sound, using a primitive sound-on-disc system | |||
1931 | Alam Ara | First Indian sound film | |||
1932 | The Missing Rembrandt | Arthur Wontner | Second film in the Sherlock Holmes series | ||
1932 | Charlie Chan's Chance | John G. Blystone | Warner Oland | Sixth film of the Charlie Chan series and third with Warner Oland | [109] |
1932 | Paprika | Franciska Gaal | |||
1933 | Hello Pop! | The Three Stooges | A Technicolor film | ||
1933 | Stop, Sadie, Stop | Ted Healy | Never released, only one print made | ||
1933 | The Monkey's Paw | Ernest B. Schoedsack | Adaptation of the W. W. Jacobs horror story | ||
1933 | Wasei Kingu Kongu | Torajiro Saito | Isamu Yamaguchi | Japanese version of King Kong and the first Kaiju film, preceded Godzilla by 21 years | [110] |
1933 | Convention City | Joan Blondell Dick Powell |
A pre-Code film produced by First National-Warner Bros (probably the last lost feature by a major Hollywood studio), it was a risque and daring comedy for its time | ||
1934 | Charlie Chan's Courage | Second version of the Charlie Chan adventure. The 1927 version still exisits. | |||
1934 | Murder at Monte Carlo | Errol Flynn | Flynn's debut film in the UK | ||
1934 | The Scarab Murder Case | Wilfrid Hyde-White | A Philo Vance film | ||
1935 | The Magic Shoes | Peter Finch | Completed but never released | ||
1935 | Dark World | Bernard Vorhaus | Tamara Desni, Leon Quartermaine, Googie Withers | Released only in the UK | |
1937 | Bezhin Meadow | Sergei Eisenstein | Unreleased Soviet film. The unfinished and unreleased film reels were destroyed during a World War II bombing raid in 1941 | ||
1938 | Too Much Johnson | Orson Welles | Joseph Cotten | Never completed or publicly screened | |
1938 | King Kong Appears in Edo | Sōya Kumagai | Eizaburo Matsumoto | A Japanese kaiju (giant monster) film preceded Godzilla by sixteen years. It was likely lost during World War II. | [111] |
Later
Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes | Ref |
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1941 | Kukan | Rey Scott | Winner of an Honorary Academy Award | ||
1942 | Brother Martin: Servant of Jesus | Spencer Williams | |||
1944 | Escape Episode | Kenneth Anger | The director destroyed the film together with a few other early works he made | ||
1948 | The Betrayal | Oscar Micheaux | The director's final production | ||
1955 | Une Visite | Francois Truffaut | Francis Cognany | Truffaut's very first film. It was filmed in Jacques Doniol-Valcroze’s apartment and its crew included Jacques Rivette, Alain Resnais and Truffaut's boyhood friend Robert Lachenay. It was only briefly screened for friends and is the only Truffaut film that has never been available for public viewing. Truffaut was unhappy with it and it is unknown if any copies still exist. | |
1962 | Big and Little Wong Tin Bar | Jackie Chan | A little clip at an interview | ||
1970s | Heartbeat in the Brain | Joey Mellen | Amanda Feilding | Infamous trepanation film with Feilding drilling a hole in her own head. | |
1987 | September | Woody Allen | The film was shot twice. The original version (with a different cast and a different script) is probably in the director's possession. | [112] |
References
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(help) - ^ "Wizard of Oz FAQ". Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ "Bobby's Kodak -- imdb entry". Retrieved 2011-0-08.
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(help) - ^ "Silent Era : PSFL : The Music Master (1908)". Retrieved 2011-04-01.
- ^ "Silent Era: The Immortal Alamo". Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ "Silent Era: The Honor of the Family". Retrieved 2008-06-09.
- ^ "Silent Era: Saved From The Titanic". Retrieved 2008-06-09.
- ^ "Silent Era: The Battle of Gettysburg". Retrieved 2008-06-09.
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- ^ "[[British Film Institute|BFI]]: Her Friend the Bandit". Retrieved 2008-06-09.
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- ^ "The Bioscope: A Study in Scarlet". Retrieved 2008-06-09.
- ^ http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/C/Crucible1914.html
- ^ The Eternal City at silentera.com
- ^ "Silent Era: Anna Karenina". Retrieved 2008-06-09.
- ^ "[[British Film Institute|BFI]]: Life Without Soul". Retrieved 2008-06-09.
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: URL–wikilink conflict (help) - ^ "Silent Era: Two Orphans". Retrieved 2008-06-09.
- ^ The American Film Institutue Catalog 1911-20 c.1998
- ^ Mary Pickford Rediscovered by Kevin Brownlow c.1999
- ^ "The Picture Show Man". Retrieved 2008-06-11.
- ^ "The Maybe File: Das Phantom der Oper". Retrieved 2008-06-11.
- ^ "Silent Era: Romeo and Juliet". Retrieved 2008-06-11.
- ^ "[[New York Times]]: The Fall of a Nation". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-06-11.
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: URL–wikilink conflict (help) - ^ "Silent Era: Camille". silentera. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
- ^ "Silent Era: A Country Hero". Retrieved 2008-06-11.
- ^ "The Untold Story of Argentina's Pioneer Animator". Retrieved 2008-06-11.
- ^ "Paul Wegener's Golem Films". Retrieved 2008-06-11.
- ^ "PSFL". Retrieved 2009-01-31.
- ^ "Film Threat's Top 50 Lost Films of All Time". Retrieved 2008-06-11.
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- ^ "Silent Film". Retrieved 2009-06-07.
- ^ "The Douglas Fairbanks Museum". Retrieved 2008-06-11.
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- ^ "Silent Era: The Kaiser, Beast of Berlin". Retrieved 2008-06-11.
- ^ "Ideofact: Lost Salome". Retrieved 2008-06-11.
- ^ "Clara Kimball Young: The Savage Woman". Retrieved 2008-06-11.
- ^ "Tarzan Movie Guide.com: The Silent Era (1918-1929)". Retrieved 2008-06-11.
- ^ "Silent Era: That Devil, Bateese". Retrieved 2008-06-26.
- ^ "PSFL". Retrieved 2009-01-31.
- ^ "Anne of Green Gables, 1919 silent film". Retrieved 2008-06-11.
- ^ "Silent Era: The Boy in Blue". Retrieved 2008-11-03.
- ^ "The Douglas Fairbanks Museum". Retrieved 2008-06-15.
- ^ "PSFL". Retrieved 2009-01-31.
- ^ "Silent Era: Marked Men". Retrieved 2008-06-12.
- ^ "Silent Era: A Fight For Love". Retrieved 2009-06-07. |- |-
- ^ The Test of Honor at silentera.com
- ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Der Herr der Liebe". Silent Era. Retrieved 2010-12-17.
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- ^ "Turner Classic Movies". Retrieved 2008-06-15.
- ^ Disraeli, 1921 film at silentera.com
- ^ "Marxology - Humourisk". Retrieved 2008-12-23.
- ^ "Marxology - Humourisk". Retrieved 2008-06-15.
- ^ "[[Wesley Barry]] - Child Silent Film Star". Retrieved 2008-06-15.
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: URL–wikilink conflict (help) - ^ "Silent Era: The Freeze Out". Retrieved 2008-06-15.
- ^ "Silent Era: Clarence". Retrieved 2008-06-15.
- ^ "The Silent Films of Alfred Hitchcock". Retrieved 2008-06-15.
- ^ A Blind Bargain at the silentera.com database
- ^ "Silent Era: One Glorious Day". Retrieved 2008-06-21.
- ^ "Silent Era: The Virgin of the Seminole". Retrieved 2008-12-28.
- ^ "Silent Era: The Virgin of the Seminole". Retrieved 2008-12-22.
- ^ "Clara Bow.net". Retrieved 2008-06-21.
- ^ "Silent Era: Drakula halála". Retrieved 2008-06-21.
- ^ Vanity Fair at silentera.com database
- ^ "Silent Era: Flaming Youth". Retrieved 2008-06-21.
- ^ "Progressive Silent Film List The Ghost City (1923-1924)". Retrieved 2010-04-11.
- ^ "Film of the Year: 1923". Retrieved 2008-06-21.
- ^ Where the Pavement Ends at silentera.com
- ^ "Silent Era: Hoodman Blind". Retrieved 2008-06-21.
- ^ "Silent Era: The World's Applause". Retrieved 2008-06-21.
- ^ The Christian at silentera.com
- ^ The Eternal City at the silentera.com
- ^ The Isle of Lost Ships at silentera.com
- ^ On the Banks of the Wabash at silentera.com
- ^ The Courtship of Miles Standish at silentera.com
- ^ "Silent Era: A Sainted Devil". Retrieved 2008-06-21.
- ^ "Silent Era: So Big". Retrieved 2008-06-21.
- ^ Sinners in Heaven at silentera.com
- ^ "Silent Era: Merton of the Movies". Retrieved 2010-02-20.
- ^ "Silent Era: The Fighting Heart". Retrieved 2008-06-21.
- ^ "Silent Era: The Dark Angel". Retrieved 2010-02-20.
- ^ "Allmovie: That Royle Girl". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-06-21.
- ^ "Silent Era: Madame Sans-Gêne". Retrieved 2008-06-27.
- ^ The Coast of Folly at silentera.com
- ^ His Supreme Moment at silentera.com
- ^ Gwiaździsta Eskadra at filmweb.pl
- ^ "Collector's Death May Free Long-Lost Korean Classic Film". Retrieved 2008-06-27. [dead link ]
- ^ "Chaplin Revue: DVD Movie Central". Retrieved 2008-06-27.
- ^ "Silent Era: The Cat's Pajamas". Retrieved 2008-06-27.
- ^ "Silent Era: The Great Gatsby". Retrieved 2008-06-27.
- ^ "Missing Believed Lost - The Great British Film Search". Retrieved 2008-06-27.
- ^ "Silent Era: A Social Celebrity". Retrieved 2008-06-27.
- ^ Aloma of the South Seas at silentera.com
- ^ IMDb trivia for Camille IMDb website. Retrieved 15 march 2009.
- ^ Kara Glover. "MCA/Universal continues the trend among Hollywood studios for restoring old movies." Los Angeles Business Journal, 1 October 1990. Retrieved 14 March 2009.
- ^ Babe Comes Home at silentera.com
- ^ Rough House Rosie at silentera.com
- ^ The Big City at silentera.com
- ^ "Silent Era: 4 Devils". Retrieved 2010-02-20.
- ^ Hall, Mordaunt. "Allmovie Review: The Street of Sin". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
- ^ Kara Glover. "MCA/Universal continues the trend among Hollywood studios for restoring old movies." Los Angeles Business Journal, 1 October 1990. Retrieved 14 March 2009.
- ^ IMDB entry
- ^ Tetsu Itoh & Yuji Kaida. 大特撮-日本特撮映画史 (Large Special: The Japanese Special Effects Movie History). Asahi Sonorama. 1979. Pg.173
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- ^ "FILM THREAT'S TOP 10 LOST FILMS PART 2". Retrieved 2011-01-16.