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Originally Posted by BenG
I've read that only half of the films made before 1950 still exist and only about 20% of silent films from the 1910s and 1920s remain.
Many films were preserved because they were part of early TV packages sold by the studios to the networks.
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It's interesting reading the stories of how various films were restored. For example the John Wayne film, the High and the Mighty was not available for a long while. In the end, they had to piece it together from multiple prints. The original archive print was ruined when the vault it was in flooded, if I remember correctly.
I can remember watching one restored movie a number of years ago (can't remember the name of the movie at the moment) where they had the audio track, but not the film for several sections, so they just played the audio track with various stills from the movie during those sections. It was kind of an interesting effect as I remember it.