AfterlightA memorial for lost films

Reel 02 · The Register

The Register

Nine of the 1,842 films named so far. Each one is listed with what is left of it, and with how it was lost when anyone knows.

  1. 01

    London After Midnight

    1927 · Tod Browning · MGM

    LeftStills and the script

    LostVault fire, 1965

  2. 02

    The Way of All Flesh

    1927 · Victor Fleming · Paramount

    LeftA fragment

    LostCause unrecorded

  3. 03

    4 Devils

    1928 · F. W. Murnau · Fox

    LeftStills and the script

    LostCause unrecorded

  4. 04

    The Mountain Eagle

    1926 · Alfred Hitchcock · Gainsborough / Emelka

    LeftA few stills

    LostCause unrecorded

  5. 05

    Cleopatra

    1917 · J. Gordon Edwards · Fox

    LeftSeconds of fragments

    LostFox vault fire, 1937

  6. 06

    Saved from the Titanic

    1912 · Étienne Arnaud · Éclair

    LeftNothing but stills

    LostÉclair studio fire, 1914

  7. 07

    Humor Risk

    1921 · Dick Smith · Independent

    LeftNothing

    LostNever released

  8. 08

    The Great Gatsby

    1926 · Herbert Brenon · Paramount

    LeftA one-minute trailer

    LostCause unrecorded

  9. 09

    The Divine Woman

    1928 · Victor Sjöström · MGM

    LeftAbout nine minutes

    LostCause unrecorded

Every frame here is redrawn from what is known of the film: its stills, its script, the descriptions of people who saw it. None of it is recovered footage.

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