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Intern Rediscovers
Long-Lost Silent Film

Feb 5, 2025 6:50 PM CST

Intern Rediscovers Long-Lost Silent Film

1915's The Heart of Lincoln is no longer lost to history

(Newser) - One of the thousands of silent films believed to have been lost forever is lost no more. The Heart of Lincoln, a 1915 Civil War drama, was found by Dan Martin, an intern going through old reels Historic Films Archive in Greenport, Long Island, NBC News reports. Martin, a film...

Archaeologists Uncover Giant Sphinx in Calif. Desert

Archaeologists Uncover
Giant Sphinx in Calif. Dunes

Archaeologists Uncover Giant Sphinx in Calif. Dunes

Cecil B. DeMille buried 'Ten Commandments' set in the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes

(Newser) - Archaeologists parted the sands in California to excavate one of the last remnants of old-time Hollywood: a giant plaster sphinx from the set of Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments. The director buried props from the epic movie (the 1923 silent black-and-white version, not the 1956 Charlton Heston blockbuster)...

70% of Silent Films
Lost to Decay

Dec 4, 2013 4:20 PM CST

70% of Silent Films Lost to Decay

Library of Congress conducts depressing study

(Newser) - The vast majority of feature-length silent films made in America have been lost because of decay and neglect over the past 100 years, allowing an original 20th-century art form to all but disappear, according to a study released today. The Library of Congress conducted the first comprehensive survey of silent...

Lost Part of
Film History
Found in Barn

Sep 21, 2013 7:59 AM CDT

Lost Part of Film History Found in Barn

Important Mary Pickford movie found, restored

(Newser) - Just before tearing down an old barn in New Hampshire, a contractor did one last check and discovered a treasure: seven reels of film that he donated to the Keene State College Film Archives, reports the college . It has since determined that at least four of those films were ones...

Alfred Hitchcock's
First Film Found

Aug 3, 2011 1:11 PM CDT

Alfred Hitchcock's First Film Found

Silent movie from 1923 discovered in New Zealand vault

(Newser) - Here's a plot twist Alfred Hitchcock likely never envisioned: The earliest feature film he worked on has finally been discovered in the vaults of a New Zealand archive. A nitrate film expert found the long lost 1923 British movie White Shadow, which credits the then-24-year-old Hitchcock as writer, assistant...