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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Quite a collection. Cyrano De Bergerac, Flying Tigers, Night of the Living Dead just to name a couple that I noticed in a brief glance. Also some really cheesy movies that I remember seeing on TV back when I was a kid - Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. I'm obviously going to have to browse this site when I have more time.
I suspect that a lot more movies have gone out of copyright, but the prints have long since vanished.
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I have a feeling that you're right about prints vanishing. Many turned to dust in their cans and many were burned back in the day to create space for new movies, or were broken down to reclaim the silver content. Plus some were made using flammable material that may even have ignited on their own. I understand some early films only exist now on long paper strips that were deposited in the copyright dept. Of course film isn't alone in its fragility. I understand some old books are slowly crumbling as the paper wasn't acid free.