Recognizing the importance of film preservation is a comparatively late phenomenon in Hollywood . other movement picture film was especially prostrate to devastation by fire thanks to its nitrate fundament . And early films that have n’t yet been destroyed by fire can drop in any numeral of other ways . In fact , it ’s estimated that over 90 percent of all moving picture made before 1929 are probably miss forever .
FromThe Film Foundation , a preservation organization :
one-half of all American film made before 1950 and over 90 % of films made before 1929 are turn a loss evermore . The Film Foundation supports “ hands - on ” conservation and renovation to ensure that these films – these works of art , historic record book , and essential theatrical of our acculturation – will survive for future generations .
Below we have a collection of motion-picture show posters from Hollywood ’s lost Golden Age .
Image : French actress Renee Adoree and MGM cameraman John Arnold circa 1925 via Getty Images
13 ravish Posters From Hollywood ’s Lost Years
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