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Originally Posted by ClassicFlix
2) We have licensed all the silents that are still under copyright. We have material access to most of those, as well as some of PD silents.
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Extremely good news! Can you give us a guesstimate as to how many silents you might end up releasing altogether? According to Wikipedia there were 88 silents produced between 1922 and 1929. There are five silents that are entirely missing or presumed lost:
YALE VS HARVARD (1927)
HEEBIE JEEBIES (1927)
EDISON, MARCONI & CO. (1928)
GROWING PAINS (1928)
THE HOLY TERROR (1929)
There are ten other silents that are partially or mostly extant:
OUR GANG (1922) — only half the film exists, consisting of pieced-together home movie fragments released in the US and UK
BETTER MOVIES (1925) — only an edited television print and a few home movie fragments exist
YOUR OWN BACK YARD (1925) — long thought lost, a nearly complete print has been pieced together from various elements that finally turned up
THE SMILE WINS (1928) — long thought lost, a 35mm nitrate print was discovered in France (with French inter-titles) in 1991. A home movie fragment (with several of the original English inter-titles) also exists.
FAIR AND MUDDY (1928) — a nearly complete print was discovered in England in 2008 but intertitle wording is not the original and it is unknown if the original wording exists
CRAZY HOUSE (1928) — the film survives complete but the synchronized soundtrack is missing
THE OL’ GRAY HOSS (1928) — the film survives complete but the synchronized soundtrack is missing
SCHOOL BEGINS (1928) — complete print supposedly at MOMA but intertitles are non-English (possibly Czech) and it is unknown whether the synchronized soundtrack has survived
THE SPANKING AGE (1928) — the film survives complete but it is unknown whether the synchronized soundtrack has survived
NOISY NOISES (1929) — the film survives complete but the synchronized soundtrack is missing
So, we ostensibly have 73 complete unmolested silent shorts that could end up being restored and released by ClassicFlix, and another ten that have issues but could hopefully be included in some form at least, with newly-created music scores in place of the originals (I mean, new scores will need to be done for all of ‘em anyway) and/or retranslated title cards and/or explanatory cards in the stead of any footage still missing. That’s actually a far greater survival rate than I was expecting! I really really hope CF can restore and release these fully/mostly/partly complete 83 silents in a couple volumes...
https://lostmediaarchive.fandom.com/...oreign_Prints)