10 Facts About Lost film

Lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U S Library of Congress.

Many Lost film studios hire a still photographer to take pictures during production for potential publicity use.

In some cases, such as London After Midnight, the surviving coverage is so extensive that an entire lost film can be reconstructed scene by scene from still photographs.

Many other early motion pictures are lost because the nitrate film used for nearly all 35 mm negatives and prints made before 1952 is highly flammable.

Since safety film is much more stable than nitrate film, comparatively few films were lost after about 1950.

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However, at that point, approximately a quarter of the original film footage was considered lost, according to the Kino Video DVD release of the restored film.

The Lost film now has been restored very close to its premiere version.

Rare has happened, as in 2018, when the rediscovered Lost film Something Good – Negro Kiss was inducted posthumously into the National Film Registry, as it was a monumental Lost film showing black portrayals completely differently to that of the time.

Sometimes, a film believed lost in its original state has been restored, either through the process of colorization or other restoration methods.

The James Cagney Lost film Winner Take All used scenes from the early talkie Queen of the Night Clubs, starring Texas Guinan; that footage is all that remains of the earlier Lost film.