Letter of the Week
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Welcome to my site. Please take a second to read the about page and feel free to explore. If you’re here to document the undocumented, then you’re in the right place. The majority of lost films never make it into an archive, the ones that are truly lost to time, will stay a fading memory.
Martin Scorsese‘s Film Foundation claimed in 2017 that “half of all American films made before 1950 and over 90% of films made before 1929 are lost forever”.[4] Deutsche Kinemathek estimates that 80–90% of silent films are gone;[5] the film archive’s own list contains over 3,500 lost films.
About the Archivist
I’ve always been passionate about film, and finding things that are hard to find.
This website was made to hopefully make it a little easier to find information about those hard to find things.
Static Strain 