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The following is a list of notable films that are incomplete or partially lost. For films for which no footage (including
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) is known to have survived, see
List of lost films For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of incomplete or partially lost films. Reas ...
. For films that were never completed in the first place, see List of abandoned and unfinished films.


Films restored from different sources

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tapes that chose to retain it. When restoring these films as intended, the VHS source mixed with
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does not match well, and can never be re-watched in their optimal form. On this matter David Gregory, founder of the distribution company
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, said: "When we find that an original camera negative has been cut for censorship, it’s gutting, because rarely are those cuts saved. If they’re cutting the egative then for whatever reason the producers decided that this was the version they wanted to survive into the future. With 1980s films, it was often because the censorship climate changed, favouring less violence and gore as the decade went on."


Silent films


1890s


1900s


1910s


1920s


Sound films


1920s


1930s


1940s


1950s


1960s


1970s


1980s


See also

* List of lost or unfinished animated films *
List of rediscovered films This is a list of rediscovered films that, once thought lost, have since been discovered, in whole or in part. See List of incomplete or partially lost films and List of rediscovered film footage for films that are not wholly lost. For a fi ...
*
List of films cut over the director's opposition Following is a list of films cut over the director's opposition. At times, a movie studio will cut a film, usually to give it a more upbeat ending or to shorten it. 20th century 21st century See also * Alan Smithee, an official pseudonym ...


References


External links


List of lost silent films at www.silentera.com

Lost Films database
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