Help Save a "Lost" Film
Working with the New Zealand Film Archive, the NFPF has already returned 176 long-unseen American films to the United States. Some 60 more are on the way. Our goal is to preserve these newly recovered movies and make them available once again for study and exhibition through the American archival community.
A number of donors have already stepped forward to generously support the preservation of specific titles. Why Husbands Flirt, The Better Man, The Sergeant, Unseen Forces, Brilliantino the Bullfighter, and Billy and His Pals all owe their preservation to such public-spirited film supporters. Many more movies are still in the preservation queue, including the shorts illustrated here. To preserve a short film costs between $2,500 to $10,000, depending on its length and condition. Supporters contributing $2,500 or more toward the preservation of specific titles will be acknowledged in film credits.
To learn more about supporting these projects, please email us at info@filmpreservation.org or call 415-392-7291. Saving these films depends on people like you. Thank you!
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The Woman Hater (Powers Picture Plays, 1910), Western, starring Pearl White, in which a disgruntled suitor, claiming to hate all women, changes his tune after his girlfriend saves him from Indians. The preservation master and print will go to George Eastman House. |
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The Love Charm (Colorart / Tiffany Stahl, 1928), glowing two-color Technicolor romance set in the Tropics and filmed by Ray Rennahan, later the Academy Award-winning cinematographer of Gone with the Wind. The preservation master and print will go to George Eastman House. |
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The Diver (Kalem, 1916), documentary showing how to set underwater explosives. The preservation master and print will go to the Museum of Modern Art. |
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Perfect Back Contest (International Newsreel, 1928), cheeky newsreel story following contestants in a Los Angeles beauty pagent. The preservation master and print will go to the Library of Congress. |
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His Neglected Wife (U.S. Motion Pictures Corp., ca. 1919), comedy about a writer’s neglected wife who devises her own story to make her point. The preservation master and print will go to George Eastman House. |
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Virginian Types (Pathé Review, ca. 1926), a Pathécolor newsreel story celebrating the peoples of Appalachia. The preservation master and print will go to George Eastman House. |