Combined with studio vault fires, where nitrate film literally exploded, and orders from Studio Executives to destroy what they thought were outdated, films, close to 90% of films made before 1930 are missing. LOST EMULSION, a new feature length documentary tells the story of so many lost films from the silent and early sound era. Films such as CLEOPATRA, with the alluring Theda Bara, LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT, with Lon Chaney, and many others. So many landmarks of motion picture history, and so many films that show what life was like 100 years ago are gone. LOST EMULSION also focuses on the race to save what is left. There are interviews with George Williem from The Library of Congress, David Schwartz from The Museum of the Moving Image, Film Historians Tom Meyer, Hugh Munro Neely, Marilyn Moss, Ben Model and more. |
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