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Theda Bara in a surviving scene from the partially lost 1917 filmCleopatra

The following is alist of notable films that are incomplete or partially lost. For films for which no footage (includingtrailers) is known to have survived, seeList of lost films. For films that were never completed in the first place, seeList of abandoned and unfinished films.

Year	Film	Director	Cast	Notes	Ref.
1894	Leonard–Cushing Fight	W. K. L. Dickson	Mike Leonard, Jack Cushing	A 37 second long piece of fragment remains of a round.	^[2]
1894	Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph	W. K. L. Dickson,William Heise	James J. Corbett, Peter Courtney	An exhibition fight filmed in theEdisonBlack Maria studio in 1894. Originally six one-minute rounds were filmed and shown on individualKinetoscopes. Only two rounds survive.	^[3]
1896	Le Coucher de la Mariée	Léar (Albert Kirchner)		One of the firsterotic films (or "stag party films") made. Only two minutes of the film have survived.
1897	The Corbett–Fitzsimmons Fight	Enoch J. Rector	James J. Corbett,Bob Fitzsimmons	A fight film shot outdoors in a widescreen process. Originally over 70 minutes, a 20-minute fragment survives.
1899	The Jeffries-Sharkey Contest	William A. Brady,Tom O'Rourke	Jim Jeffries,Tom Sharkey	American Mutoscope and Biograph film of 25-round heavyweight championship bout, 135 minutes in length. First film shot in artificial light, which was so hot that it singed the boxers' hair. A few minutes of degraded footage exists of this fight.	^[4]

Year	Film	Director	Cast	Notes	Ref.
1903	Alice in Wonderland	Cecil Hepworth, Percy Stow	May Clark	The first film adaption ofLewis Carroll'sbook originally ran about 12 minutes, according to theBritish Film Institute. The Institute's restoration is nine minutes and 35 seconds long.	^[5]
1905	Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	J. Stuart Blackton	H. Kyrle Bellew,J. Barney Sherry	First dramatic Sherlock Holmes adaptation on film and second overall Holmes film, the first one being the 30-second filmSherlock Holmes Baffled (1900). All that exists are short strips of scenes deposited for copyright purposes in theLibrary of Congress.	^[6]
1906	The Story of the Kelly Gang	Charles Tait	Frank Mills	Only 17 minutes of this 70-minute feature survive; it is often considered to be the world's firstfeature-length motion picture. It was thought to be alost film until fragments were found in 1976, with further fragments in 1978, 1980 and 2006.	^[7]
1908	A Grandmother's Story	Georges Méliès	André Méliès (Georges' seven-year-old son)	Fragments of this short film are known to survive;^[8] some scenes in the middle of the film are presumed lost.^[9]

Year	Film	Director	Cast	Notes	Ref.
1911	At a Quarter of Two	Thomas H. Ince?	Mary Pickford,King Baggot	Fragments in the Library of Congress have been identified as being from this film.	^[10]^[11]
	Fighting Blood	D. W. Griffith	George Nichols,Robert Harron	The only available print is "missing much of the climactic battle scene".	^[12]
	Their First Misunderstanding	Thomas H. Ince,George Loane Tucker	Mary Pickford,Owen Moore	A one-reel short. The majority of the film was recovered in 2006, but the first minute or so remains missing.	^[13]^[14]
	A Victim of the Mormons	August Blom	Valdemar Psilander,Clara Pontoppidan	Danish film that initiated a decade ofanti-Mormon propaganda films in America. Only about half of the 60-minute feature has been found, a copy of which is preserved at theLDS archive in Salt Lake City.	^[15]
1912	With Our King and Queen Through India			British documentary depicting celebrations inIndia for thecoronation ofGeorge V. With a total running time of around 150 minutes, today only two reels survive, one showing a review of troops after the main ceremony and the other a procession in Calcutta from the end of the royal tour.	^[16]
1913	The Adventures of Kathlyn	Francis J. Grandon	Kathlyn Williams	La Cineteca del Friuli film archive has the first of 13 episodes of the second American serial ever made. TheEYE Film Institute Netherlands also has print fragments.	^[17]
	The Inside of the White Slave Traffic	Frank Beal	Edwin Carewe, Jean Thomas	Two reels of this four-reel drama have survived.	^[18]
	Poor Jake's Demise	Allen Curtis	Max Asher,Lon Chaney	A fragment of the film was discovered inEngland in May 2006 and is in the possession of Lobster Films.	^[19]
	Raja Harishchandra	Dadasaheb Phalke	D. D. Dabke,Anna Salunke	The first Indian feature film. TheNational Film Archive of India has two reels containing the first and last of four parts of the work.	^[20]
	Who Will Marry Mary?		Mary Fuller,Ben F. Wilson	Incomplete prints of episodes one and five (of six) survive, in the EYE Film Instituut Nederland archive and atKeene State College, respectively.	^[21]
1914	Dolly of the Dailies	Walter Edwin	Mary Fuller,Yale Boss	Chapter five of this 12-part serial was discovered in 2009 in theNew Zealand Film Archive. TheBFI National Archive has chapter 10.	^[22]^[23]
	The Battle of the Sexes	D. W. Griffith	Lillian Gish,Donald Crisp	Griffith's second feature, and his first released for Reliance-Majestic. Only a two-minute fragment survives.	^[24]
	The Girl Stage Driver	Webster Cullison	Norbert A. Myles,Edna Payne, Will E. Sheerer	An incomplete 35mm positive print was discovered in 2009 in theNew Zealand Film Archive.	^[25]^[26]
	A Good Little Devil	Edwin S. Porter	Mary Pickford	One of five reels survives in theNational Film and Television Archive.	^[27]^[28]
	The Last Egyptian	J. Farrell MacDonald	J. Farrell MacDonald, Howard Davies,J. Charles Haydon,Vivian Reed	Three of the film's five reels are housed in the Museum of Modern Art.	^[29]
	Ireland a Nation	Walter MacNamara	Barry O'Brien	Four of five reels survive.	^[30]
1914– 1917	The Hazards of Helen	J. P. McGowan, James Davis	Helen Holmes	This is believed to be the longest serial ever made, 23.8 hours long with 119 12-minute episodes. Surviving episodes are scattered among various film archives, including theLibrary of Congress, theNational Film and Television Archive and the International Museum of Photography and Film atGeorge Eastman House.	^[31]
1914	The Indian Wars Refought	Theodore Wharton	William F. Cody	Cody stars as himself in this early movie version of theIndian Wars; also starsNelson Appleton Miles andBlack Elk; released 1917. One minute and 58 seconds of footage is held by the McCracken Research Library or theBuffalo Bill Historical Center, and can be viewed online (see reference).	^[32]
	Lucille Love, Girl of Mystery	Francis Ford	Grace Cunard, Francis Ford	Four of 15 episodes survive.	^[33]
	The Master Key	Robert Z. Leonard	Robert Z. Leonard,Ella Hall,Harry Carter	Episode five of 15 resides in theLibrary of Congress.	^[34]
	My Official Wife	James Young	Clara Kimball Young	The story concerns Helen Marie, a woman on the run from theSt. Petersburg police, who plots to assassinate theTsar. Only about 45 seconds of this film exists. These fragments contain an extra mistakenly said to beLeon Trotsky. In fact, Trotsky was not yet in the United States when this was filmed.	^[35]
	Neptune's Daughter	Herbert Brenon	Annette Kellerman	The Gosfilmofond film archive possesses one reel, which Australia'sNational Film and Sound Archive copied.	^[36]
	The Perils of Pauline	George B. Seitz	Pearl White	Of the original 20-chapter serial running 410 minutes, only a 90-minute version, released in Europe in 1916, is known to exist.	^[37]
1915	The Battle Cry of Peace	J. Stuart Blackton	Charles Richman,L. Rogers Lytton,Mary Maurice	Pro-armaments epic and the most expensive production undertaken by Vitagraph. One reel reported in Europe; fragments of battle scenes, culled from stock shot libraries, reside atGeorge Eastman House.	^[38]^[39]
	The Carpet from Bagdad	Colin Campbell	Kathlyn Williams,Wheeler Oakman,Guy Oliver	One reel of five was salvaged from the wreck of theRMSLusitania with a few feet of recoverable images.	^[40]
	The Millionaire Paupers	Joe De Grasse	Lon Chaney	Only a fragment of the film survives.	^[41]
1916	La falena	Carmine Gallone	Lyda Borelli	TheCineteca Italiana film archive possesses a fragmentary print.	^[42]
	The Fall of a Nation	Thomas Dixon	Lorraine Huling	A few frames survive of this sequel toThe Birth of a Nation (1915).	^[43]
	Intolerance	D. W. Griffith	Lillian Gish,Mae Marsh,Robert Harron,Constance Talmadge	Still frames from several scenes have survived and were incorporated into the print compiled by theMuseum of Modern Art in New York. These scenes were probably part of the original cut of the film, but eliminated by Griffith in subsequent reissues.	^[44]
	The Iron Claw	George B. Seitz,Edward José	Pearl White,Creighton Hale	TheUCLA Film and Television Archive possesses episode seven of this 20-part serial.	^[45]
	Kiss of Death	Victor Sjöström	Victor Sjöström	TheCinémathèque française film archive has approximately 30 minutes of the film.	^[46]
	The Moment Before	Robert G. Vignola	Pauline Frederick	A nearly complete print, lacking only the opening scene, is in the possession of theCineteca Nazionale film archive inRome.	^[47]^[48]
	The Place Beyond the Winds	Joe De Grasse	Lon Chaney	Four of the five reels are in the film archive of theLibrary of Congress.	^[49]
	Ramona	Donald Crisp	Adda Gleason,Mabel Van Buren	TheLibrary of Congress has reel five.	^[50]
	Snow White	J. Searle Dawley	Marguerite Clark,Creighton Hale	It was considered alost film, thought to have been destroyed in a vault fire. A "substantially complete" print with Dutch intertitles, missing a few scenes, was found inAmsterdam in 1992 and restored atGeorge Eastman House.	^[51]
	The Wings	Mauritz Stiller	Egil Eide,Lars Hanson	A copy of the central section surfaced in 1987 and was shown by theSwedish Film Institute.	^[52]
	The Woman in the Case	Hugh Ford	Pauline Frederick,Alan Hale Sr.	The first four of five reels survive in the Nederlands Filmarchives.	^[53]
1917	Cleopatra	J. Gordon Edwards	Theda Bara	Only approximately 20 seconds was originally believed to exist, until around 40 additional seconds were discovered in 2023.	^[54]
	The Devil-Stone	Cecil B. DeMille	Geraldine Farrar	Two reels of this six-reel feature film, originally withHandschiegl Color Process sequences, are in theAFI Collection of theLibrary of Congress.	^[55]^[56]
	The Gulf Between	Wray Physioc	Grace Darmond,Niles Welch	Of the firstTechnicolor film, "very short fragments survive at theMargaret Herrick Library,George Eastman House and the SmithsonianNational Museum of American History Photography Dept."	^[57]^[58]
	The Moth	Edward José	Norma Talmadge,Eugene O'Brien,Hassard Short	The Library of Congress has reels one to four (of six).	^[59]
	Nuts in May	Robin Williamson	Stan Laurel	Only 60 seconds of footage remain of Laurel's first film.^{[citation needed]} Part of the short lives on in scenes inserted into the 1922 extant shortMixed Nuts.	^[60]
	Poppy	Edward José	Norma Talmadge,Eugene O'Brien, Frederick Perry	A two-reel condensation of the second half of the film survives in the Library of Congress.	^[59]
	The Red Ace	Jacques Jaccard	Marie Walcamp	Originally a 16-episode serial, only episode seven survives in the film archive of theLibrary of Congress.	^[61]
	The Secret Man	John Ford	Harry Carey	Two of the five reels are in theLibrary of Congress film archive.	^[62]
	The Seven Pearls	Louis J. Gasnier, Donald MacKenzie	Mollie King,Creighton Hale	Fragmentary prints of this serial are held by theLibrary of Congress. (Public Archives of Canada/Dawson City collection).	^[63]
	The Sin Woman		Irene Fenwick	A trailer survives in theNational Film and Sound Archive and theAcademy Film Archive.	^[64]
	Triumph	Joe De Grasse	Lon Chaney	Three of the five reels survive.	^[65]
1918	The Cook	Roscoe Arbuckle	Roscoe Arbuckle,Buster Keaton	Two prints were found of this previously lost comedy short, one in 1998 and one in 2002, and were combined to create a restored version. However, some scenes are still missing.	^[66]
	The Ghost of Slumber Mountain	Willis O'Brien	Herbert M. Dawley,Willis O'Brien	Only 19 minutes survive.
	The Ghosts of Yesterday	Charles Miller	Norma Talmadge,Eugene O'Brien,Stuart Holmes	Reels one to four (of six) and a fragment of the last reel are in the possession of the Library of Congress.	^[59]
	Hands Up	Louis J. Gasnier,James W. Horne	Ruth Roland,George Larkin	Only a "promotional short film" of this 15-part serial remains, in theUCLA Film and Television Archive.	^[67]
	He Comes Up Smiling	Allan Dwan	Douglas Fairbanks	Only one reel survive from this five reeler. The surviving reel was preserved by theAcademy Film Archive in 2010.	^[68]^[69]
	The House of Hate	George B. Seitz	Pearl White,Antonio Moreno	An incomplete print of this 20-part serial is in the Gosfilmofond film archive with Russian and/or Ukrainian subtitles.	^[70]
	Oorlog en vrede	Maurits Binger		Only a single fragment of this Dutch World War I film survives.	^[71]
	Riddle Gawne	William S. Hart,Lambert Hillyer	Lon Chaney	One of the five reels is in the film archive of theLibrary of Congress.	^[72]
	Salomé	J. Gordon Edwards	Theda Bara	A short, two-minute fragment consisting of clips from the film, surfaced in 2021 at theFilmoteca Española (Spanish Film Archive) in Madrid.	^[73]
	The Soul of Buddha	J.Gordon Edwards	Theda Bara	Screenplay written by Bara. A short 23 second fragmet surfaced in 2025 in the documentary Theda Bara et William Fox (2001).
	When a Woman Sins	J. Gordon Edwards	Theda Bara	In 2019, 23 seconds worth of surviving footage was rediscovered.
1919	The Black Secret	George B. Seitz	Pearl White,Walter McGrail	Widely thought to be lost. On 9 July 2021, a YouTube channel based in the UK released a two minute clip of the film.	^[74]
	Bound and Gagged	George B. Seitz	Marguerite Courtot, George B. Seitz	Four of the 10 episodes of this spoof serial survive in theLibrary of Congress film archive.	^[75]
	The Coming of the Law	Arthur Rosson	Tom Mix,Agnes Vernon,George Nichols	One reel survives in the Library of Congress.
	The Exquisite Thief	Tod Browning	Priscilla Dean,Thurston Hall,Milton Ross,Sam De Grasse,Jean Calhoun	One out of six reels of this film exists, which was recovered from theDawson Film Find.	^[76]^[77]
	Fighting For Gold	Edward LeSaint	Tom Ford,Teddy Sampson,Sid Jordan	incomplete print survives in private collection
	A Gun Fightin' Gentleman	John Ford	Harry Carey, John Ford	Only three reels of originally five or six are believed to have survived.	^[78]
	J'accuse	Abel Gance	Séverin-Mars	The original film was in four episodes with a film length of 5,250 metres (17,220 ft). The most complete reconstruction is 3,525 metres (11,565 ft) long.	^{[citation needed]}
	Juan Sin Ropa	Georges Benoît	Camila Quiroga, Héctor G. Quiroga, José de Ángel, Julio Escarsela and Alfredo Carrizo	The only surviving copy of the film was preserved in fragmentary form and without intertitles, lasting only 25 minutes.	^[79]^[80]
	Just Squaw	George E. Middleton	Beatriz Michelena	TheLibrary of Congress has four of five reels.	^[81]
	Der Knabe in blau (The Boy in Blue)	F. W. Murnau	Blandine Ebinger	Murnau's debut film. TheDeutsche Kinemathek film archive possesses 35 small fragments ranging from two to 11 frames in length.	^[82]
	The Masked Rider	Aubrey M. Kennedy	Boris Karloff,Ruth Stonehouse	The serial was considered to be lost in its entirety. However, most episodes have been found, although many are incomplete.The Masked Rider is considered to be the first film serial about a masked cowboy.	^[83]
	The Miracle Man	George Loane Tucker	Thomas Meighan,Lon Chaney	About three minutes survive, including two clips in compilation films released by Paramount:The House That Shadows Built (1931) andMovie Memories (1935).	^[84]
	The New Moon	Chester Withey	Norma Talmadge	Reel six (of six) is missing from the Library of Congress	^[85]
	Ravished Armenia	Oscar Apfel	Aurora Mardiganian	A 24-minute segment was restored and edited from a surviving reel inSoviet Armenia. It was released in 2009 by the Armenian Genocide Resource Center ofNorthern California. Also known asAuction of Souls.	^[86]
	Rough Riding Romance	Arthur Rosson	Tom Mix	One reel of excerpts (500 ft) survives.
	The Tiger's Trail	Robert Ellis,Louis J. Gasnier,Paul Hurst	Ruth Roland,George Larkin	A "fragmentary print" of the 15-episode serial exists.	^[87]
	The Toilers	Tom Watts	Manora Thew,George Dewhurst,Gwynne Herbert,Ronald Colman,Eric Barker	Two of five reels survive.	^[88]
	Treat 'Em Rough	Lynn Reynolds	Tom Mix,Jane Novak	Two reels are known to survive at George Eastman House.

Year	Film	Director	Cast	Notes	Ref.
1928	Melody of Love	Arch Heath	Walter Pidgeon,Mildred Harris	Universal's first all-talkie. According to silentera.com, an incomplete print exists.	^[191]
	My Man	Archie Mayo	Fanny Brice	Reels one, two and 11 of thispart-talkie survive, as do an almost complete set of soundtrack discs and the soundtrack of the trailer.^{[clarification needed]}	^[192]
	Noah's Ark	Michael Curtiz	Dolores Costello,George O'Brien	After the premiere of thispart-talkie,Warner Bros. made extensive revisions, including cutting about half an hour. The original 135-minute version is believed to be lost. A partial restoration is 108 minutes long.
	On Trial	Archie Mayo	Pauline Frederick,Bert Lytell,Lois Wilson	A trailer^[170] and theVitaphone soundtrack survive.
	The Patriot	Ernst Lubitsch	Emil Jannings	Paramount's first feature length film with talking sequences. A trailer and some fragments have been rediscovered plus a 6 minute reel found in a Portuguese archive.
1929	The Broadway Melody	Harry Beaumont	Charles King,Anita Page	The first talkie to win anOscar for Best Picture. The scenes also shot in two-stripTechnicolor only survive in black and white.
	The Cocoanuts	Robert Florey	The Marx Brothers	The preview ran 140 minutes, and was edited to 96 minutes for general release. Extant prints run just over 93 minutes, the missing footage is presumed lost.
	Disraeli	Alfred E. Green	George Arliss	The 1934 re-release remains. About three minutes of the original 1929 footage are believed to be lost.
	The Donovan Affair	Frank Capra	Jack Holt	The first all-talkie film released by Columbia Pictures. A mute print of this film survives in the Library of Congress, but the soundtrack, which was recorded on discs, is not known to survive. The sound disc for the trailer exists but the film does not.
	Fast Company	A. Edward Sutherland	Jack Oakie,Evelyn Brent	According to the Internet Movie Database, the UCLA Film and Television Archive has reels 1, 2, and 3 of this film, with reel 4 having disintegrated in 1990.
	Frozen Justice	Allan Dwan	Lenore Ulric,Robert Frazer	One reel of the silent version survives in the Library of Congress. The sound version is missing.
	Fox Movietone Follies of 1929	David Butler	John Breeden,Lola Lane	Fragments have resurfaced including a Multicolor sequence	^[193]
	Gold Diggers of Broadway	Roy Del Ruth	Winnie Lightner,Nick Lucas,Nancy Welford	Last two reels and some fragments survive, as well as the Vitaphone sound disks.	^[194]
	The Great Gabbo	James Cruze	Erich von Stroheim	Originally featured sequences inMulticolor, now believed to be lost.
	Happy Days	Benjamin Stoloff	Charles E. Evans,Marjorie White,Richard Keene	Second feature film in 70 mm (using theFox Grandeur system). Widescreen version is believed lost; survives in a 35 mm version.
	Married in Hollywood	Marcel Silver	J. Harold Murray	The final reel survives (in Multicolor) at theUCLA Film and Television Archive.
	Midstream	James Flood	Ricardo Cortez,Claire Windsor	One reel featuring a stage performance of the operaFaust was located in 2003 and included as an extra on the 2 DVD set ofThe Phantom of the Opera (1925), released by the Milestone Collection.
	On With the Show	Alan Crosland	Betty Compson	The first all-Technicolor, all-talking feature, only a black-and-white version remains, although a very brief clip of color footage was found in a toy projector.	^[195]
	Queen of the Night Clubs	Bryan Foy	Texas Guinan	One short clip included inWinner Take All (1932) withJames Cagney. Silentera.com states that an incomplete silent trailer also exists.	^[196]
	Red Hot Rhythm	Leo McCarey	Alan Hale Sr.	One filmed sequence, the title song ("Red Hot Rhythm"), survives in earlyMulticolor process.
	Paris	Clarence G. Badger	Irene Bordoni,Jack Buchanan	A Technicolor fragment survives.
	Rio Rita	Luther Reed	Bebe Daniels,John Boles	A cut-down 1932 re-release survives.
	Sally	John Francis Dillon	Marilyn Miller	Originally produced in two-strip Technicolor, today the film survives only in black and white, save for a two-and-a-half-minute sequence from the 'Wild Rose' musical number and a 29 second fragment from the first reel. The existing print does not feature the song "After Business Hours (That Certain Bizness Bigins)" and is also thought to be lost.
	Wolf of Wall Street	Rowland V. Lee	Nancy Carroll,George Bancroft	Only montage sequences bySlavko Vorkapich survive. One of these has been issued in October 2005 in the DVD collectionUnseen Cinema: Early American Avant Garde Film 1894–1941.

Year	Film	Director	Cast	Notes	Ref.
1930	Bright Lights	Michael Curtiz	Dorothy Mackaill	No Technicolor print of thisVitaphone musical has survived.
	The Cat Creeps	Rupert Julian	Helen Twelvetrees	A short segment of this sound remake ofThe Cat and the Canary (1927) is included in the short filmBoo! (1932), the only footage known to exist prior to 2025. Additional footage was rediscovered atIndiana University Bloomington in 2025.	^[197]
	General Crack	Alan Crosland	John Barrymore	The silent version of this film exists. The Vitaphone discs for the sound version survive, but matching film elements are lost.
	Bride of the Regiment	John Francis Dillon	Vivienne Segal,Walter Pidgeon	All-Technicolor musical drama, a twenty second fragment was located in 2023. The complete soundtrack survives onVitaphone discs.
	Good News	Nick Grinde	Bessie Love	The final reel in Multicolor is lost.
	Isle of Escape	Howard Bretherton	Monte Blue,Betty Compson,Myrna Loy	The barest of fragments survive.	^[198]
	Lilies of the Field	Alexander Korda	Corinne Griffith,Ralph Forbes	Fragments of the "Mechanical Ballet" sequence are preserved in the 1932Joe E. Brown comedy filmThe Tenderfoot.	^[199]
	Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht	Robert Siodmak	Heinz Rühmann,Lien Deyers,Hermann Speelmans,Friedrich Holländer	Originally 98 minutes long, only a 52-minute version released in 1933 asJim, der Mann mit der Narbe remains.	^[200]
	No, No, Nanette	Clarence G. Badger	Bernice Claire, Alexander Gray	The soundtrack discs and the trailer survive.	^[199]^[201]
	The Rogue Song	Lionel Barrymore	Lawrence Tibbett,Laurel and Hardy	The soundtrack, two reels and several clips survive.
	Chasing Rainbows	Charles Reisner	Bessie Love	Black-and-white portion of the film is extant; color sequences in the middle and end of the film are lost.
1931	Annabelle's Affairs	Alfred L. Werker	Jeanette MacDonald	The last of Jeanette MacDonald's films for Fox; only one reel is known to survive.
	Charlie Chan Carries On	Hamilton MacFadden	Warner Oland,Hamilton MacFadden	An alternate Spanish-language version, featuring a different cast, exists. Also, the trailer for the film survive.^[202]	^[203]
	Fanny Foley Herself	Melville W. Brown	Edna May Oliver	All-color film photographed in Technicolor. TheUniversity of California, Los Angeles Library's Film & Television Archive has a color 35 mm trailer.	^[204]
	The Ghost Train	Walter Forde	Jack Hulbert Cicely Courtneidge Ann Todd Cyril Raymond	Partially recovered (five reels, two reels of the soundtrack) as a result of a 1992 British Film Institute campaign to search for lost films.	^[205]
	The Runaround	William James Craft	Mary Brian	Originally released as a musical asWaiting for the Bride orWaiting at the Church in Technicolor, it was re-released under the new title with the musical parts cut. Only an incomplete black-and-white copy of the cut version seems to have survived.^{[citation needed]}
1932	Condemned to Death	Walter Forde	Arthur Wontner,Gillian Lind,Gordon Harker,Cyril Raymond	A "cut version dubbed in French" was found as a result of a 1992 British Film Institute campaign to search for lost films.	^[205]
	Horse Feathers	Norman Z. McLeod	Marx Brothers	The only existing prints of this film are missing several minutes due to both censorship and damage.
	Veiled Aristocrats	Oscar Micheaux	Lorenzo Tucker	All that remains is the trailer and fragments of two reels.
	Walking Down Broadway	Erich von Stroheim	James Dunn,Boots Mallory,ZaSu Pitts	Withheld from release and re-edited asHello, Sister!; the original version remains lost.	^[206]
1933	My Lips Betray	John G. Blystone	John Boles	The sixth reel is assumed to be lost.
	The Monkey's Paw	Wesley Ruggles	Louise Carter,Ivan Simpson	Only a version dubbed in French has survived
	The Testament of Dr. Mabuse	Fritz Lang	Otto Wernicke	The German premiere ran 124 minutes. The modern restored version is 121 minutes long.
	West of Singapore	Albert Ray	Betty Compson,Weldon Heyburn,Margaret Lindsay	A 1 minute and 36 second fragment is available on YouTube.
1935	The Burgomeister	Harry Southwell	Janet Ramsey Johnson	Only one sequence remains.	^[207]
	Devdas	P.C. Barua	P.C. Barua, Jamuna Barua	Of this classic Bengali film, only 60% still survives.
	The Mystery of the Mary Celeste	Denison Clift	Bela Lugosi,Shirley Grey,Arthur Margetson,Edmund Willard	Eighteen minutes were cut from the film and the only surviving print is the shortened re-release, retitledPhantom Ship.
1936	The Man Behind the Mask	Michael Powell	Hugh Williams,Jane Baxter,Maurice Schwartz	The surviving American release, titledBehind the Mask, is a cut version of the U.K. film.	^[208]
1936	Things to Come	William Cameron Menzies		The most complete existing version of this film runs 96 minutes, compared with its original running time of 117 minutes upon submission to theBBFC. A reconstructed version using extant film, production stills and extracts from the script is available on DVD.
1937	Lost Horizon	Frank Capra	Ronald Colman	Capra's initial 210-minute version was cut down to 132 minutes after a preview screening of the film went badly. In his autobiography, Capra claims to have personally destroyed the first two reels. Subsequent re-releases were further edited to downplay allegedlyCommunist elements, as well as hints ofswinging and various scenes which were felt to present thenative children in too positive a light. While a complete soundtrack of the original 132-minute release has survived, no complete print is known to exist. A restoration substituted still photos and individual frames for the seven minutes of missing footage. One minute of footage has been found and added to a Blu-ray release of the film.
1938	Show Business	A. R. Harwood	Bert Matthews	Onlyrushes from a single minor scene are left.	^[207]
1938	Thank Evans	Roy William Neill	Max Miller,Hal Walters,Albert Whelan	One hundred feet (just over a minute) of footage was found as a result of a 1992 British Film Institute campaign to search for lost films.	^[205]
1939	Tsuchi (Earth)	Tomu Uchida	Mieshi Bando, Donguriboya, Masako Fujimura, Akiko Fujimura, Mari Ko	A seriously compromised print ofEarth was discovered in Germany in 1968. It suffers from decomposition and is missing the first and last reels and includes German subtitles. The original film was 142 minutes long; this version runs 93 minutes. A 119-minute version of the film, with subtitles in Russian, was discovered in Russia around the turn of the millennium. It, too, is missing the last reel.	^[209]
	Mr. Lahtinen Takes French Leave	Nyrki Tapiovaara	Fritz-Hugo Backman,Märtha Jaatinen	Only around 43 minutes (of the original 77) from the middle have been preserved.	^[210]
	The Rules of the Game	Jean Renoir	Nora Gregor,Paulette Dubost,Mila Parély	The re-construction is missing one scene from the original cut.	^[211]
	Banana da Terra	Ruy Costa	Carmen Miranda	3 minutes (of the original 88) have been preserved.	^[212]

Year	Film	Director	Cast	Notes	Ref.
1940	Fantasia	Various Directors	Deems Taylor	For its 60th anniversary DVD release in 2000,Disney's manager of film restoration, Scott MacQueen, supervised a restoration and reconstruction of the original 125-minute roadshow version ofFantasia. The visual elements from theDeems Taylor segments that had been cut from the film in 1942 and 1946 were restored, as was the intermission. However, the original nitrate audio negatives for the long-unseen Taylor scenes had deteriorated several decades earlier, so Disney brought in voice actorCorey Burton to dub all of Taylor's lines. Although it was advertised as the "original uncut" version, the Sunflower edit inBeethoven's Symphony No. 6 made in 1969 was maintained. In this version, it was accomplished by digitally zooming in on certain frames to avoid showing the black centaurette character.
1941	This Man Is Dangerous	Lawrence Huntington	James Mason	Included on the BFI's "75 Most Wanted" list of missing British feature films, a dubbed Italian copy has surfaced.	^[213]^[214]
1942	Brother Martin: Servant of Jesus	Spencer Williams		Sack Amusements, the film's distributor, went out of business, and no one preserved its collection. A trailer was found at UCLA in 2022 by Ray Langstone.	^[215]
	The Magnificent Ambersons	Orson Welles	Joseph Cotten,Dolores Costello	Forty-four minutes were cut byRKO Pictures from Welles' version after an unsuccessful preview, with RKO filming a new ending and destroying the deleted footage. A handful of shots from the original version exist in the film's original trailer, which has survived.
	Berdjoang	Rd. Ariffien	Mohamad Mochtar	A single reel was shown at theYamagata International Documentary Film Festival; the rest remains lost.	^[216]
1943	Sanshiro Sugata	Akira Kurosawa	Sambas	According to theToho Studios introduction to the 1952 re-release of this film, 1,845 feet (17 minutes) were cut in 1944 due to government demands. The missing footage could not be found for the 1952 re-release and is considered lost.
1948	Bless 'Em All	Robert Jordan Hall	Hal Monty,Max Bygraves	Placed on theBFI 75 Most Wanted list of lost films. A cut-down version titledBe Kind Sergeant was later offered for sale on eBay. A two-and-a-half minutetrailer also survives.	^[217]^[218]
1948	Somewhere in Politics	John E. Blakeley	Frank Randle,Tessie O'Shea,Josef Locke	According to theBritish Film Institute, only a print of an "18-minute short from the film, entitledFull House", is known to exist.	^[219]

Year	Film	Director	Cast	Notes	Ref.
1951	The Idiot	Akira Kurosawa	Setsuko Hara,Masayuki Mori,Toshiro Mifune,Yoshiko Kuga	Kurosawa wanted the original 265-minute version to be shown in two parts. When the studio balked, the film was cut to 180 minutes. After the poorly received premiere, the picture was cut, against Kurosawa's wishes, to 166 minutes. No print of the 265-minute version is known to exist; Kurosawa supposedly spent a week looking through the studio archives for the original cut when he returned toShochiku Studios 40 years later to makeRhapsody in August.
1951	The Red Badge of Courage	John Huston	Audie Murphy,Bill Mauldin,Douglas Dick,Royal Dano	Huston had high hopes for the movie, even considering the original two-hour cut of the film as the best he had ever made as a director. After a power struggle at the top of MGM management, the film was cut from a two-hour epic to the 69-minute version released to theaters, in response to its alleged universally disastrous previews. It was never released as an "A" feature but was shown as a second-feature "B" picture. Both Huston and star Audie Murphy tried unsuccessfully to purchase the film so that it could be re-edited to its original length. Huston did not waste any time fighting over it, as he was focused on the pre-production of his next picture,The African Queen. The studio claimed that the cut footage was destroyed, probably in the1965 MGM vault fire. In 1975, MGM asked Huston whether he had an original cut of the film, which the studio wanted to re-release. He had actually struck a 16mm print, but by that time, it had been lost.
1954	A Star Is Born	George Cukor	Judy Garland,James Mason	Originally premiering at 181 minutes, Warner Bros. cut the film down to 154 minutes for general release. For a 1983 restoration, running 176 minutes, the original multiple track, stereophonic sound was restored, along with some scenes that had been cut; production stills filled in for other missing scenes. A complete print is rumored to exist.^{[citation needed]}
1954	Top Banana	Alfred E. Green	Phil Silvers	Shot and edited in3-D, the film was released in 2-D. The film only survives in a 16mm, 2-D version, although a 3-D trailer has survived.
1956	The Burmese Harp	Kon Ichikawa		Nikkatsu, the studio that commissioned the film, released it in Japan in two parts, three weeks apart. Part one (running 63 minutes) opened on January 21, 1956, and part two (80 minutes) opened on February 12. Both were accompanied by B movies. The total running time of 143 minutes was cut to 116 for later re-release and export, reputedly over Ichikawa's objection. The original 143-minute version is lost.
1957	Begunah	Narendra Suri	Kishore Kumar,Shakila,Helen	Due to copyright infringement issue,Bombay High Court ordered all the prints of the film to be destroyed. However,National Film Archive of India found two 16 mm reels consisting of around 60 to 70 minutes footage in 2020.	^[220]

Year	Film	Director	Cast	Notes	Ref.
1963	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World	Stanley Kramer	Spencer Tracy	Premiering at 192 minutes, the movie was edited to 162 minutes for general release. In the late 1980s, 20 minutes of deleted footage were found in a warehouse which had been slated for demolition and restored to the film in 1991. The remaining lost roadshow footage was tracked down in 2013 as part of a restoration effort to return the film to its original roadshow length. A majority of the scenes found were complete; the remainder were missing either the sound or the visuals, as they were derived from original70mm roadshow prints that were themselves edited down from Kramer's original cut. The original elements disappeared long ago.
1964	Man in the 5th Dimension	Dick Ross	Billy Graham	Thisshort film was originally shot in the70mm Todd-AO widescreen process. Eleven 70mm prints were created, but none survive. The film exists in a16mm version only.
1964	Think	Charles and Ray Eames		The film was part of an exhibit at the1964 New York World's Fair. Around 2016, a home movie held atIndiana University Libraries Moving Image Archives was found to include three minutes of the 1964 version.	^[221]
1964	Firelight	Steven Spielberg		The first film directed bySteven Spielberg, then only 17 years old. The 135-minute sci-fi film cost $500. Only 3% of the film survives.	^[222]
1966	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	Sergio Leone	Clint Eastwood,Eli Wallach,Lee Van Cleef	At least two completed sequences from this film, one in whichBlondie foils Tuco with the aid of a Mexican prostitute and another in which Angel Eyes explains to Blondie how he learned of Jackson's gold, were cut from all releases, including the Italian premiere version, and are now believed to be lost. All that remains of the former sequence is a snippet of footage used in a French trailer for the film, while a small number of production photos provide evidence for both scenes' existence.	^[223]^[224]^[225]
1967	Four Stars	Andy Warhol	Edie Sedgwick,Ondine	One of the longest films ever publicly screened, it ran for close to 25 hours at The Filmmaker's Cinemathèque in New York City on December 15–16, 1967. Based on extant data regarding the order of reels, films that still remain and projection information, a full reconstruction is not possible.	^[226]
1967	Great Monster Yongary	Kim Ki-duk		The original negative is thought to be lost and the original Korean-language version only exists in a 48-minute fragment. However,MGM owns a complete 35mminterpositive and textless 35mm elements for the opening and ending titles and was able to reconstruct theAIP-TV English-dubbed U.S. version in CinemaScope.
1968	Easy Rider	Dennis Hopper	Hopper,Peter Fonda,Jack Nicholson,Luke Askew	About 80 hours were shot, mostly bike riding, but also extra scenes. Hopper came up with versions of 240 minutes, 220 and 180 minutes, all considered too long for cinema release. He was sent on holiday to Taos, and the movie was cut by others, likeHenry Jaglom, to 96 minutes. All take-outs are now believed to be lost due to a fire. A small number of production photos provide evidence for extras scenes, like a police chase,^[227] and one of the Morganza café girls riding as passenger behind Fonda.^[228]	seeEasy_Rider#Post-production

Year	Film	Director	Cast	Notes	Ref.
1971	Bedknobs and Broomsticks	Robert Stevenson	Angela Lansbury,David Tomlinson	The film was shortened after its premiere, from two and a half hours to 119 minutes. In 1996, a restoration effort was mounted, and most of the cut footage was found. However, most of the dialogue tracks for these scenes could not be recovered, so the scenes were dubbed by the original actors whenever possible. Footage of the song "A Step in the Right Direction", which was included on the original soundtrack album, has not been found.
	The Big Boss	Lo Wei	Bruce Lee	After itsHong Kong run, the film was edited for Western release. Numerous cuts were made, mostly to remove the more graphic violence. Also removed was an explicit brothel scene in which Lee's character makes love to a Thai prostitute (Lee's only implied nude scene in his career). The missing footage has been rumored to still exist.	^[229]
	Duck, You Sucker!	Sergio Leone	Rod Steiger,James Coburn,Romolo Valli	Many versions of this film exist (the best-known and most widely available being the 157-minute version), but several scenes are known to have been cut from every release and possibly survive only through production stills. These include a scene in which John is forced to march across a desert without water (similar to a scene in Leone's previous film,The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) and one in which Dr. Villega is tortured for information by Colonel Reza.	^[230]^[231]
1972	The Last House on the Left	Wes Craven	Sandra Cassel, Lucy Grantham	This film was unusually graphic for its time and many cinema machinists made their own cuts. As a result, some scenes are missing from most versions of the film and the sound is missing from other scenes.	^[232]^[233]^[234]^[235]
1973	The Wicker Man	Robin Hardy	Christopher Lee,Edward Woodward	The original negative and film elements of Robin Hardy's 99-minute director's cut ofThe Wicker Man are lost and only survive on tape recordings. In 2013,StudioCanal launched a Facebook campaign to find missing material from the film, which resulted in the discovery of a 92-minute 35mm print at the Harvard Film Archive that saw a theatrical and home media release subtitledThe Final Cut. This print, previously known as the "Middle Version", was assembled by Hardy for the film's then-U.S. distributor, Abraxas, for its 1979 U.S. theatrical re-release.	^[236]^[237]
1974	The Corpse Eaters	Donald R. Passmore, Klaus Vetter	Michael Hopkins, Ed LeBreton	After being sold as a tax write-off, the film faded into obscurity for years until Encore Home Video rediscovered it in 1993 and released it on DVD several years later, claiming to have transferred their copy from the only known surviving print. This version runs 57 minutes and is considered incomplete.	^[238]
1977	Last House on Dead End Street	Roger Watkins	Roger Watkins	The original cut of the film, bearing the titleCuckoo Clocks of Hell, was three hours in length. Although it was screened in 1974, this version has been lost; the original negatives are missing and may have been destroyed.	^[239]
1978	Wages of Fear	William Friedkin	Roy Scheider,Bruno Cremer,Francisco Rabal,Amidou	Re-cut version of William Friedkin's 1977 filmSorcerer for international release outside USA and France. Unauthorized work byCIC against Friedkin's wish in effort to make the film more appealing to audiences. All opening prologues were removed and reinserted as short flashbacks, reducing the runtime from 121 minutes to 88 minutes. Contains some alternative scenes not seen on the original cut, alternative takes of some scenes, different dubbing and dialogue in some scenes.Tangerine Dream's music is used much more, and the film has a happy ending compared to the original cut's darker ending. So far the original print of this version has not been resurfaced, but some fans have managed to obtain 35mm print fromCzech Republic withCzech language subtitles burned to the image, and are restoring this cut.

Year	Film	Director	Cast	Notes	Ref.
1980	The Shining	Stanley Kubrick	Jack Nicholson,Shelley Duvall,Danny Lloyd	During the premiere of the film, a scene where Danny is recovering in a hospital and visited by Ullmann was placed before the last scene of the film. Kubrick had it excised from the film, and all known copies of the scene are lost. A script with this scene still exists, as do photographs.	^[240]
1981	For Y'ur Height Only	Eddie Nicart	Weng Weng	The originalTagalog language audio track is lost.	^[241]
1982	The Impossible Kid	Eddie Nicart	Weng Weng	A sequel toFor Your Height Only, it is also missing the original Tagalog language audio track.	^[241]^[242]
1987	My Best Friend's Birthday	Quentin Tarantino	Quentin Tarantino	In the bookMy Best Friend's Birthday: The Making of a Quentin Tarantino Film, Tarantino admits that some rolls of film were simply discarded by mistake, and Tarantino, unsatisfied with the final product, edited together the scenes he liked, leaving the project unfinished.	^[243]^[244]

Year	Film	Director	Cast	Notes	Ref.
2010	Who Killed Captain Alex?	Nabwana I.G.G.		The original version of the film, which does not include VJ Emmie as the "Video Joker" was lost when the director erased his computer's hard drive to make his next filmTebaatusasula (see below). Even from the existing cut, all that survives is a low-resolution DVD master.	^[245]
2010	Tebaatusasula	Nabwana I.G.G.		The original film was lost when the director's hard drive containing the original workprint crashed as a result of power outages in his neighborhood. It was later remade asTebaatusasula: Ebola. A trailer containing footage from the film still exists.	^[246]

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