More than eighty percent of the movies made during that time no longer exist in the United States. The Library of Congress has been working with other countries to try to find copies of the missing films. One library official compared finding the films in Russia to finding a lost painting by the famous artist Pablo Picasso.
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The films are extremely important for the early Hollywood history they represent. They were made by some of the biggest names of the time, like movie director Victor Fleming. His nineteen twenty-three movie “Call of the Wild” was one of the movies recovered. Mr. Fleming later became best known for directing the movie “Gone with the Wind.”
Two films from the year nineteen nineteen were also included in this first shipment from Russia. Both “Valley of the Giants” and “You’re Fired” starred Wallace Reid. The actor was said to be one of the most perfect on-screen lovers. He was one of the most famous actors of his time until his death in nineteen twenty-three.
Another film is called “The Eternal Struggle.” It was one of the last films produced by Metro Pictures Corporation before it became part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, or MGM, in nineteen twenty-four. That company still exists today.
Film librarians in the United States are now working to restore these lost movies to their original state. Russian words had been inserted into the films to help explain what was happening in the scenes. Library of Congress officials are now trying to find the original text. If they can’t, they will translate the Russian text back into English, and hope that what they get is close to the original English wording.
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