Image Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer & Fox Film Corporation. A movie is considered “lost” if the original negative or a complete copy does not exist in any known archive or private collection. Estimates ...

Studios often destroyed prints to reclaim silver from the reels or simply tossed them aside once profits dried up. By the time preservation efforts began in earnest, it was too late for most. Nearly ...

Silent film star Clara Bow, Hollywood’s first-ever “It Girl,” made a triumphant return at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival after one of her lost movies resurfaced in a Nebraska auction. The Pill ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT/Gray News) - It’s a movie that hasn’t been seen in decades, missing for so long that many didn’t even know it existed. That is, until it turned up in Omaha, Nebraska. On a projector ...

Oscar Micheaux is considered the first prominent Black filmmaker in the United States. According to the National Park Service, between 1919 and 1948, Micheaux independently wrote, directed and ...