September 30, 2024
An estimated 11,000 movies were made in the U.S. from 1912 through 1929, during film’s silent age. About 70 percent of movies from that era are thought to be lost forever. Some were lost to physical damage such as from fire and chemical decay, while others were deemed too costly to store by the studios that made them.
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