And MGM studios gave prints or negatives of film archives for preservation starting in the 1930's, later completing a project to preserve most of their silent productions at the studio's expense. Mary Pickford, a silent film star, decided to pay for the preservation of her own work. Some archives and museums acquired negatives or copies of some of the era's most influential work early. Decades later, those nitrate originals were often discarded as damaged goods. Once the silent era gave way to sound, most studios put their silent film reels in storage.īut nitrate film deteriorates without proper preservation, meaning that the hasty, cheap, storage favored to make way for talking films was essentially an archival death sentence. And those studios who opted to keep the material around usually did so cheaply - and poorly. Universal-International destroyed its remaining silent film copies in 1948. and Twentieth Century-Fox lost more or less the entirety of their silent film archives in a 1930s fire. A further five percent of films survive in an incomplete form, and the remaining 70 percent of work from the era is completely lost to history.Īccording to the study, many of the losses happened early on. That's just 25 percent of the silent era still available. Just 2,749 of those are still with us in some complete form, either as an original American 35mm version, a foreign release, or as a lower-quality copy. The American silent era produced about 10,919 films. The numbers back up Billington's word choice. Billington said in the introduction to the study, "The Library of Congress can now authoritatively report that the loss of American silent-era feature films constitutes an alarming and irretrievable loss to our nation’s cultural record." That wasn’t the case in Game 1, so it’s a good thing they have 81 to get it figured out.The lost films aren't just obscure films only of interest to those doing deep research dives: they include Lon Chaney’s London After Midnight (1927), Clara Bow's work from 1928, the 1917 silent production of Cleopatra, and the first adaptation of The Great Gatsby, released in 1926. Librarian of Congress James H. Denver was supposed to have strong depth this season, and that was expected to help carry them while Murray and MPJ get rolling again. All 24 of those points came from just three guys.
Bones Hyland was the leading scorer with 10 points, and those nine players contributed just 24 points combined. and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope were both positive during their 35 minutes of floor time. In fairness, the starters weren’t exactly crushing it during their minutes, although Michael Porter Jr. Of the nine bench players that saw action in Wednesday’s loss, Ish Smith, who was -2 in his five minutes of action, had the best plus/minus on the night. While I’m willing to take that loss with a grain of salt, there are still noticeable issues that will need to be addressed moving forward.ĭenver’s bench was absolutely rolled all game long. Jamal Murray is still on a minutes restriction, and the team has to get itself back up to speed. The Nuggets are 0-1 after their opening night loss to the Utah Jazz, but I’m not overly concerned about it. įirst of all, welcome back to the NBA season.
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