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Russia Finds Long Lost Silent Films; Restores & Presents To The United States
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One thing some people might not know (including myself before reading this), is that the United States was responsible for more films in the 20th century than any other country, but when it came to all of the silent movies made in the late 1800s to early 1900s, only 20% of them still exist.

The reason for this is a combination of things. On one end, a lot of films of the Silent Era were lost to lack of care and the natural deterioration that comes with time. On another end, American film studios owned all rights to their movies, and they handled international distribution their own way…even down to subtitling the pictures themselves. In doing this, they often changed the title to better suit the various foreign countries the movie was being released in. Combine all of these things together, and you have yourself a perfect storm of methods for losing cinematic artifacts to time.

A very exciting story for fans of cinema comes today, however, with word that Russia has found and identified ten films in their state archive. All ten movies are from the Silent Film Era, and include long-lost titles from renowned directors such as Cecile B. DeMille (The Greatest Show On Earth, The Ten Commandments) and Victor Fleming (Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz).

Head on over to the other side to check out a full list of the movies that were found.

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Must Watch: What ‘Star Wars’ Would Look Like As A 1920s Silent Film
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As you all know, Star Wars will always and forever be massively popular and ripe for fan alterations. Most of them are rarely worth a peek, but sometimes one comes along that’s not to be missed. We have one of those for you here today.

The video comes by way of funfunfunfunfunfive on YouTube, and it simply takes an iconic scene from The Empire Strikes Back and modifies it to look like it was produced as a silent film from the 1920s. As far as sci-fi goes, the most notable film from the silent film era is Metropolis, which is finally coming our way on DVD and Blu-ray this fall, but you have to admit, Star Wars does look like it would have been pretty awesome back then.

If you’re interested in seeing exactly how this would have looked back in the roaring ’20s, don’t be shy and click on over to the other side now!

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