Will it ever be seen again?

Will it ever be seen again?

Why were 20s movie makers so bad at making copies of their films?

too worried about world war 1 and global depression

>World war 1
>20s
You're American aren't you?

There was no home distribution so people thought movies were going to be shown once and then forgotten.

>once a war is over everything goes back to normal

You're American aren't you?

>All those films just gone

Fuck that shit. I'd rather the lost spider pit scene be found

>An unnecesary scene that served no purpose in the film other than grossout should get better treatment than a horror classic that features one of the best actors of all time

Does Sup Forums wanna watch some old Lon Chaney and Lugosi's with me? I don't have friends...

no, just not stupid

Yes actually. Do you stream?

great response Mr America

have a hot dog and a budweiser on your way out

>I don't have friends...

Posts like this bums me out man.

link me famalam, id be happy to join you

Wait until people discover about digital decay.

Does the script and any directional/editorial notes exist today?
Could it ever be remade/reimagined according to those notes by someone who has the right talent and passion for silent horror films?

>REE LE AMERICANS MAKE ME SO MAD AND THEY ARE SO TERRIBLE I JUST HATE THEM SO MUCH THEY ARE ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT WHILE I CONSUME AMERICAN MEDIA AND POST ON AMERICAN WEBSITES AND AMERICA AMERICA AMERICA MUMMY HAAAAAAALP AMERICA IS MAKING ME UPSET AGAIN REEEEEEEE

lel fucking kill yourself you pathetic obsessed faggot

Without Lon Chaney, it'll never be the same.

>obsessed
Irony.

Obviously, but still, I'd be behind such a project if the filmmakers were passionate and honest about it.

What's the temperature of your head right now?

Please enlighten us.

wasn't this supposed to be a remake ?

Yes, but
>The merit of this film is still debated among horror movie fans due to the ending,[citation needed] which reveals that the vampires were actors hired to help trap a murderer. While films of the previous decade commonly revealed the supernatural threat to be fake—such as The Cat and the Canary or The Gorilla—such films as Dracula and Frankenstein in the thirties featured horror films deeply based in the fantastic. Some viewers thought that the ending compromised the film;[citation needed] Bela Lugosi reportedly found the idea absurd.[citation needed] (In the original London After Midnight, Lon Chaney played a vampire who turned out to be a detective in disguise.) Many viewers[who?] consider the film to be a satire of the conventions of the horror film.[citation needed]

It's not too faithful to the original. It has Lugosi and Barrymore though, and it was directed by Browning, so it has its merits.

fair enough.but it's the closest we'll ever get to seeing london after midnight .
>tfw i fell in love with carrol borland

Now that we have almost unlimited storage, it seems like data is eternal and always there.

But digital data decays much faster than anyone expected in the 70s-80s when it was standarized.

Magnetic tapes get erased, disks corrode, servers break. If paper can last 400-500 years, celulose films last 50-60, tapes can last 20-30, optical disks around 10-20.

And not only you have to preserve the data, you have to mantain the hardware, the software, etc.

Video formats such as codecs, can become obsolete in a few years. It's not only that you have to keep different copies of a file and keep checking for errors to solve everytime a new copy is done, you have to do conversions to each new format that appears.


tl;dr
>Digital data requires active preservation and nobody has the time and resources to do it
>In 100 years there will be more lost films from the 2010s than from the 1910s

Not that anybody must panic, since Sturgeon's Law still applies

My 30sfu is definitely Elsa Lanchester as Mary Shelley (and the Bride, to a lesser extent) in Bride of Frankenstein.

Because the film was highly combustible and prone to decay, films were entirely one and done disposable entertainment where nobody wanted to see them again since newer shit was coming out and was more exciting, until TV was invented and they realized there was a new market where you could resell old movies for the tube for reruns.

TCM did something like that using production still some years ago. Running time was like 50 minutes long.

>optical disks last around 10-20 years.
If you're retarded.

We just have to back everything up as often as we could, but we'll still lost a lot of data.

All that knowledge lost, like tears in the rain.

>well it really was....London (looks at camera) after midnight (winks)

Seriously ?

Where do you guys live? We can make this work.

You're American aren't you?

Something like 75% of all movies and television have been lost to history.

Yes, and I'm proud of it.

People that have actually seen London after midnight have said it's not even that good.

Nitrate film

We won't see this ever again

>horror classic
>one that no one's seen
>more of a classic than King Kong

Wew

I like Lon Chaney and I don't have friends.

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