Holy Mole, what a tale. That's gotta be trippy. You know, something like 70% of silent films made early on in cinema history are gone. They recycled the materials, they weren't valued, or war, or any number of things happened. I just looked up Melies,he burned a collection of his films so that's another way.
I didn’t know that about old films. But that totally makes sense. A lot of old manuscripts used to be scraped clean and reused. Modern equipment can sometimes read the books underneath the new writing. Other old books were used to bind newer volumes; sometimes parts of long-lost books are found folded up in the spines of others.
Holy Mole, what a tale. That's gotta be trippy. You know, something like 70% of silent films made early on in cinema history are gone. They recycled the materials, they weren't valued, or war, or any number of things happened. I just looked up Melies,he burned a collection of his films so that's another way.
I didn’t know that about old films. But that totally makes sense. A lot of old manuscripts used to be scraped clean and reused. Modern equipment can sometimes read the books underneath the new writing. Other old books were used to bind newer volumes; sometimes parts of long-lost books are found folded up in the spines of others.