A 1937 fire caused the loss of thousands of silent films, and wiped several actors' careers from the pages of history as a result.
The Big Picture Lost media discovery is always a joyous occasion, a discovery of something we thought we'd never find, something that was never supposed to be found. From scraps of films that never made it out of production, to films that you swear you saw once on television but doubted their actual existence, it's an archeology that many internet and media-savvy folks can take part in.
There have been several studio fires throughout the decades, with several production companies having their pasts go up in flames. The MGM vault fire in 1965 is how we lost London After Midnight, British and Dominions Imperial Studios burned the whole business to the ground, and even Universal had a fire as recent as 2008, destroying thousands of audio masters.
A total of 40,000 film reels were destroyed, from a combination of the Fox Film Corporation and Educational Pictures. The entire archive was gone, along with negatives from Educational Pictures and Belarusfilm; nothing could be salvaged.
Bara was not the only one to suffer this fate, wild west star Tom Mix and starlet Shirley Mason were also made obscure by the same accident.
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