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Many early silent films are entirely lost to history
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Because early film stock was highly unstable and studios literally didn't care about preserving their history, an estimated seventy-five percent of all silent films are permanently gone. Studios would routinely just melt down the reels to extract the silver content, unknowingly deleting the foundations of cinematic history for a quick buck.
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