A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons.Of American silent films far more have been lost than have survived, and of American sound films made from 1927 to 1950, perhaps half have been lost.
The phrase "lost film" is also used in a literal sense for instances where footage of deleted scenes, unedited and alternative versions of feature films are known to have been created but can no longer be accounted for.
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