The complete silent film The Little Irish Girl was thought lost for decades. Its damaged nitrate reels survived in a Sydney helicopter hangar—and archivists saved them.
A 1919 Billy B. Van comedy, long believed lost, resurfaced in an antique shop in Japan. Now Van-ar-chy is returning to the New Hampshire town where it was filmed.
The Hollywood Theatre screened the only known 35mm print of a 1959 noir, unseen since it was made. An attendee says the canisters were saved from a dump-bound cache.
