Lost Films

[cdnchris]

Clearly it could happen to anyone.

[Saturnome]

I doubt it actually is a picture of London After Midnight's original camera negative, so what do you know

[antnield]

Aleksander Hertz's People with No Tomorrow (Ludzie bez jutra)

[Murdoch]

Eastman House revealed the contents from its 2014 rescue of a huge number of Indian films (597 in total)

[L.A.]

Missing silent film "Bilwamangal (1919)" finally returns to India

[Ashirg]

Near complete Ozu film from prewar silent era discovered

[Michael Kerpan]

Near complete Ozu film from prewar silent era discovered

Correction -- near complete "abridged" version. The write-ups on this discovery are (sadly) a bit misleading.

[L.A.]

Lost Georges Méliès film found at Czech film archive

[FrauBlucher]

Lumière Festival: 90% of U.S. Films Shot Before 1914 Have Disappeared, Warns Gaumont President Nicolas Seydoux

[L.A.]

Lost film starring Baby Peggy discovered after an auction in Japan

[L.A.]

Lost Hungarian silent A Munkászubbony / The Work Jacket (1915) found in the Netherlands

[knives]

A never released Mohsen Makhmalbaf film just got smuggled out of Iran.

[swo17]

Awesome!

[FrauBlucher]

Even this sounds juicy....
“I succeeded in stealing it but I can’t possibly give more details about how it was done,” Makhmalbaf told the Guardian ..... would love to hear this.

[Perkins Cobb]

Joe Sarno's The Naked Fog (1966). A mouth-watering find.

[rockysds]

Rupert Julian's Silence (1926) has been found at the Cinémathèque Française and part (23 minutes) of the Wallace Beery/Louise Brooks comedy Now We're in the Air was found in the Czech National Archive. Both restorations will world premiere at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.

[Ashirg]

Silent movie from 1924 (Secrets of the Night), on Library of Congress list of lost films, found almost perfectly preserved

[Jonathan S]

Silent movie from 1924 (Secrets of the Night), on Library of Congress list of lost films, found almost perfectly preserved

I don't know the length of the newly discovered copy but Grapevine have been selling a a 75 minute version for several years.

[Ashirg]

[FrauBlucher]

100 year old silent film found, amongst other films... pretty amazing stuff.

[TMDaines]

Two years old, but still interesting. The finder posted on Nitrateville.

[Quiche]

Would you consider films that are not readily available to the viewing public as "lost films" even if you know they are still somewhere and intact? I've been wanting to watch Uma (1941) for about 3-4 months now and I can't seem to track down a copy online or in VHS form

[JSC]

There's a film that I've been hoping would turn up sometime, somewhere.
But so far no such luck.

The film is Alpha Beta. It's a British film from 1976 and stars Albert
Finney and Rachel Roberts. It's based on a play by E.A. Whitehead and
directed by Anthony Page. As far as I can tell it had a theatrical release in
Britain and the US (although in some books it is erroneously referred to
as a television production).

I could easily see this as a BFI flipside release or something along those
lines. Anyone have some info on this?

[Jonathan S]

According to BBC Genome, it appears to have been transmitted twice on BBC2 in 1974 - assuming it is indeed the same production (cast and director match up), whether made for cinemas or TV.

[JSC]

According to BBC Genome, it appears to have been transmitted twice on BBC2 in 1974 -
assuming it is indeed the same production (cast and director match up), whether made for
cinemas or TV.

I assume it's the same production. According to imdb, the film was made by
Albert Finney's own company Memorial Enterprises. I don't see any indication
that the BBC was involved in the production per se. So it might have been
originally planned to premiere on television, followed by a theatrical release.