I love his laugh❤

I adore him ❤

Good job bro

22:51. It is worth nothing that in 2010 there was a 9-minute restoration released of that version of "Alice in Wonderland".

It’s surprisingly common to find early silent and sound films on movie pirating websites, I’ve found multiple rare but restored Chaplin films and downloaded them and backing them up across storage mediums whilst prioritizing image quality over file sizes. Sadly many Chaplin films have had their copyrights bought up by some distributor and thus slamming a renewed copyright on them when they should be freely accessible and shareable with anyone that ever wishes to see them.

Marvellous, erudite, timeless.

What a beautiful short documentary.

2:30 that's crazy on KZbin you can find very short scenes of 1917 Cleopatra movie. 8:07 this maniac destroyed film rather or not it was to test he should have not done that. He should have brought it to a specialist to examine it instead of destroying it. Man finds film first thought kill it with fire to see If It's what I'm looking for that's insane. Imagine what he burned was like the best scene of the movie or a important moment and without it viewers would have no idea wha the hell is going on or it just skips to the end spoiling everything important. It's amazing that many talented people are preserving the hard passionate works in cinema history. The works creators would be happy. Although me and other might not be into every piece of history I'm happy that It can be displayed for anyone to view. Cool video. ^_^

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The person who made with silver nitrate should realize he made a horrible mistake

I’ve watched a number of these videos and while I see where these people are coming from, it’s really over blown. It sucks that some classics were lost, most movies were not meant to last.

It seems, you have some footage of an Austrian fire brigade, that demonstrated in the early 1960's, that every attempt to extinguish burning nitro celluloid fails.

I love Tim Roth so much. He is so sweet and great at acting.

I love Tim Roth! He is a great actor, but he is also charismatic and funny. I love his sense of humor.

This is quite an old documentary, at least with digital, you can retain the information about the encoding format

I deeply mourn for the lost movies of the early days... that showed us a lot of the old world.

I wonder if any of the machines survive? There were not a lot of them to begin with.

"It belongs in a museum!"

So sad for any work of art any human has ever produced to expire. All those moments will be lost, like tears in rain.

I find this subject absolutely enthralling!!

4:40 The main core reason why Capitalism and Film Preservation don't mix.

This changed my viewpoint on film preservation and restoration. Some of my favorite silent films could've been lost.

The best acktor...favorite

Part of me holds out hope that a film like London After Midnight will one day turn up given older films have been found.

I wish a copy of London after midnight was around somewhere....if there is a copy somewhere, that person can write his own amount on a blank check

What about George Eastman and Edison? Or Friese-Greene?

Imagine if they actually dumped this movie 13:02

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Cultural dysmorphia. Wot Not was a very fine actor. Stood in for Keye Luke on occasion, I hear.

LOVE this documentary...it is both informative and entertaining, and it raises the issue of continuance of the preservation process...a "call to action" as it were. Well done, and THANK YOU, from a digital archivist who is in the middle of this all day, every day, and who does so without regret.

Tim is WAY better an actor than people give him credit for! He was absolutely the best in Rob Roy !! When you really hate the character that he’s playing, you know he’s the best!!!

So much history of the early cinema is lost because of the fact that we cant even think of doing anything to save them. It break my heart to see that alot of these lost movies will not be seen by future and younger generations. :( But it was and always will warm my heart to see people who actually care about the films admit that mistakes were made early on about the preservation and is now attempting to correct it. A copy of London After Midnight is still out there and I like many others believe that looking for these films is the same looking for a long lost treasure. So if you're looking for an adventure, look no further than this.

where can i watch the Her Wild Oat film? Can't find it on yt

Fantastic documentary. Preservation and restoration is very important to keeping this art alive and ensuring it is enjoyed by everyone for many decades.

i love this video

if you keep the film on film wont it degrade over time compared to a digital version where it will look the same forever

Well, even though making films back then was extremely hard and tough. I know many silent era films are lost forever but hopefully we may get lucky if many more are found. I understand not everything will be recovered. But I’m glad in these days they are trying there hardest to preserve them as much as they can.

Imagine you and dozens of other people bust your asses for months or even years to get a film made, and once you have, it becomes your life’s greatest achievement, and you couldn’t be more proud. Then some guy throws out the final surviving print of your film because it took up too much space in a warehouse.

You know what is weird? How common fires at film storing places are ... like way too fucking common. How hard is it to keep a storage place from catching on fire? Just don't light it on fire... and have a lightning rod. That's it. I have a feeling a lot of that has to be insurance fraud from people who don't want to wait 40 years to make a profit. They probably never cared for the film either. Or something else too hot is stored alongside :P

the filmstrip in the start was a silent film that inspired the GB sequence

Maybe I should burn every frame of my favorite movie into stone tablets.

90% of it wasn't worth saving anyway.

I hope some day the uncensored British cut of Barbarella is found. Two women kissing is no excuse for censorship... While I'm dreaming, the censored episodes of The Avengers should be restored. Emma Peel did nothing to be censored for, either!

Humanity began documenting history thousands of years ago on clay tablets. It would seem, the more complex the medium, the least amount of time passes before it is not accessible / readable. Did you know there are "VIDEO" recordings from the late 20s - early 30s on "video records" that have the retrace sync video pulses "encoded" onto them to play these videos back? Imagine a VCR made in 1929. It would look more like a turntable than a video cassette recorder.

Oh Dear I made a boatload of pictures over my career as a production designer I wonder how many will survive?

4:25 That reminds me of the "burning movie film" scene in "Cinema Paradiso," as projectionist Alfredo was burned/disfigured/blinded.

Incredible! Loved it!

"Dump all that old $#*t in the bay." "But it's precious art that will be lost forever." "Well, La-de da."

If she'd had any affection for him, she'd have smiled when he did the corny German accent.

As someone in the 21st century, I find it completely ridiculous that anyone thought it was a good idea to have films be preserved on guncotton. No wonder old films didn't survive. It is a miracle that ANY pre-1950s films are still around.