Lost film
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A lost film is a movie in which the original negative and all copies are not known to exist in any studio archive, private collection, or public archive. Films can be wholly or partially lost for a nu
Lon Chaney in London After Midnight (1927), one of the most sought-after lost films, with the last known print of it being destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire. A set of production stills survives.
Theda Bara in Cleopatra (1917). Four hundred stills, one minute of the film itself, and the intro are known to have survived.
The First Men in the Moon (1919), a lost British film, reputedly "the first movie to ever be based entirely on a famous science fiction novel"
Tenderloin (1928), starring Dolores Costello, the second Vitaphone feature to have talking sequences, is considered a lost film because only its soundtrack is known to have survived.
Roscoe Arbuckle
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Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle was an American silent film actor, director, and screenwriter. He started at the Selig Polyscope Company and eventually moved to Keystone Studios, where he worked with
Arbuckle c. 1916
Fatty Arbuckle ad from The Film Daily, 1932
Arbuckle with his and Minta Durfee's dog Luke, c. 1919
Hand-tinted photograph of Arbuckle, c. 1915