Missing Pieces

Lost Movies

Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywood has been lost. Preservation only began when film came to be seen as art.

Alexander Lee | Published in History Today Volume 73 Issue 4 April 2023

Fred Ott’s Sneeze, an early kinetoscopic film produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company, 1894.
Fred Ott’s Sneeze, an early kinetoscopic film produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company, 1894. Alamy.

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