The Survival of American Silent Feature Films: 1912-1929

New Report Tracks America’s Endangered Silent-Film Heritage

Wed, 12/04/2013 - 11:51 -- Nick Dager

The Library of Congress today unveiled The Survival of American Silent Feature Films: 1912-1929, the first comprehensive survey of American feature films that survived the silent era of motion pictures. Previous documentation established that nearly 11,000 (10,919) silent feature films of American origin were released from 1912 through 1929. There was, however, no definitive, systematic study on how many of these films still existed and where any surviving elements were located in the world’s leading film archives and private collections.

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