Complete loss of any "talkies"? (1 Viewer)

[Jon Martin]

Excellent thread!

After the Criterion release of PANDORA'S BOX, I began watching a lot of Louise Brooks films. Sadly, almost half of her films are lost.

And of the list above, I recently got a VHS copy of THE BIG NEWS (an early Carole Lombard film). So, it is out there.

 

[Bert Greene]

Had never seen an actual list of talkies considered lost, although this one does seem to pretty much conform to expectations, with its heavy emphasis on poverty-row fare, as well as some early-talkie titles that have been conspicuously absent over the years. But, there are a few surprises. I wonder how the heck Paramount lost "Arizona Mahoney" (1936) and "Forgotten Faces" (1936). I'd always wanted to see the former, which was a light little western, starring a very young Robert Cummings. And ditto for Columbia, regarding "Highway Patrol" (1938) and "Reformatory" (1938). Pretty minor b-films, but I had no idea they were lost.

Another big disappointment is "The Fourth Horseman" (1932), one of Tom Mix's nine Universal talkies. Had no idea. Although, I do see one film on this list that isn't lost, Fox's "Safety in Numbers" (1938), one of the Jones Family films. A copy of it has been in the collecting circuit for the past few years.

 

[Ravi K]

Was Murnau's film Four Devils ever found?

 

[Charles Ellis]

Amazing about those 'lost' RKO titles being found. How many other films are lying in vaults, waiting to be rediscovered? The fact that several of those films had rights issues reminds me of those films that may never see the light of day again because of legal disputes or estate blockage, like:

Letty Lynton
Beyond The Forest
Porgy & Bess

 

[Patrick McCart]

What about 1940 and beyond?

 

[DanMel]

Does anyone know if any of Gary Cooper's talkies are lost? I've managed to obtain copies of every single Coop talkie (excluding cameo unbilled parts)except for four:

1930 The Texan
1930 A Man From Wyoming
1930 The Spoilers
1931 I Take This Woman

None of the above movies seem to be in existence anywhere on the internet. Very recently I was able to obtain copies of 1930 Only the Brave and 1934 Operator 13 but these two have not arrived in the mail to me from private collectors.

I am sure that some of his silents are lost but not sure which one's.

 

[Bill Robertson]

In that vein, John Landis' original "roadshow" version of The Blues Brothers has been lost forever. He has stated a number of times that Universal trashed all of the out-takes, deleted scenes etc. so he could never do a true director's cut. The slightly extended version (based on a workprint for a test screening I think) which is currently on release it the best he could do.

Of course you could also add the Original Star Wars Trilogy to this list as Lucasfilm claim that it was destroyed when they put together the Special Editions

This has also happened to many episodes of tv shows and live broadcasts (in the UK at least) tapes containing shows were regularly wiped by the BBC destroying them forever.

 

[Charles Ellis]

Not to mention thousands of US daytime soap episodes from the 50s through the 70s. I'm shocked to hear that as late as the mid 80s the major studios were still junking leftover footage and outtakes from "A" pictures like The Blues Brothers! Hindsight can be a bitch- the folks at Fox are still looking for roughly two hours of excised scenes from Cleopatra while the hunt continues at Warner Brothers for cut scenes from 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Star Is Born, and there's hope, no matter how slim, for more from those two classic examples of studio interference in editing Greed and The Magnificent Ambersons. But then, I'm like the boy who comes across a huge pile of manure and starts digging through it, thinking "With all this manure around, there must be a pony somewhere!" And sometimes, there are beautiful ponies among the muck- if you know where to look....

 

[Stephen_J_H]

One lesser-known and unreleased lost film is Bob Clampett's animated John Carter of Mars (1936?). Had it been released, it would have been the first animated feature length film, pre-dating Snow White, but it was thought to be too violent for children. The last known copy was destroyed in a fire at the Edgar Rice Burroughs museum in the late 1970s. I'd give my left nut to see this if anyone could track it down, given Clampett's well-known reputation as an animator.

 

[MielR]

The first few years of the Mike Douglas show were wiped, as well as the first ten years of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (without permission of the hosts- I think they both sued).

I'm surprised that Landis didn't have dupes of everything from The Blues Brothers in his own collection. Many directors will insist on it, to prevent having something just like that from happening.

Was it Buster Keaton who had a print of every film he ever made stored in a vault in his home in Hollywood? Many films of his that were thought to be lost were found there after his death, and in good condition no less. (I think it was Keaton- but it might be another silent film star I'm thinking of).

 

[MielR]

Thanks for the info- I remember seeing something on TV about it a while back, they showed the house, and the vault that contained the films.

Which reminds me-
My Mom once had a dear friend who was a Priest, and we went to visit him when I was a teenager. He was elderly man, already in his late 80's or early 90's at the time. He lived in a large old house that had belonged to his family and he showed us a projection room of sorts that was on one of the upper floors. I remember him mentioning something about having films with Frank Sinatra, but the house had no air conditioning and my Mom explained to him that it wasn't good to keep films in a hot environment (Summer- New Jersey).

I was just a kid then and really had no interest in the films at the time, but I often wonder now what other films he had and if there were any rarities among them. He passed away many years ago, and his home was left to the church so I have no idea what became of the movies. They may have already been long ruined by then, though.

Anyhow, I recently saw an intro on TCM about The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, and how nearly an hour of the film was cut, and is now missing. The content of the missing hour sounded interesting- hopefully they'll discover it one day (though I understand that one cut scene was restored on the laserdisc, but is not on the DVD??).

 

[Tory]

There is something of this on the Beany & Cecil special Edition, a test reel. This was to be a series of short films, like the Fleischer Superman series but it was killed by the idiots in charge. Snow White was not the first feature length animated film, that would be the lost 1917 film El Apóstol. The first surviving animated feature length film is the Adventures of Prince Achmed.

 

[Bert Greene]

Well, last week I was on this thread, lamenting the inclusion of Paramount's "Arizona Mahoney" (1936) on that list of lost talkies. This week, I was over at Alpha's website, and noted that they have this film slated for release in their March batch. Seems that it also goes by another name, "Arizona Thunderbolt," undoubtedly retitled for tv-prints long ago, like several of the other 1930s Paramount Zane Grey outings. So, I guess I will get to see the darned thing after all, even if from an old, beat-up tv-print. Better than nothing.

 

[drew caldwell]

I have to disagree on a couple of things. I wouldn't say 50% of films before 1950. I think that number refers to how many negatives exist still. CONVENTION CITY and THE ROGUE SONG are probably the most famous examples of lost soundies, but a bulk of them are poverty row numbers or schlock b-westerns, so not much is missing. And while a lot of them crumbled to dust, they did so in vaults where they were forgotten.

Small, independent companies like Pathe, Tiffany, and Mascot went bankrupt or out of buisness at some point, and beyond the nitrate factor, things were just junked. In the late 1940s-early 1950s, a lot of the stuff was junked for storage space more than anything else. So those are the factors that make the percentage rate of lost films so high

Here's a somewhat incomplete list of before 1940 (with some inaccuracies...it is rather old):

After the Fog (1930, BEACN)
Age for Love, The (1931, CADDO)
Along Came Love (1936, PAR)
Argyle Case, The (1929, WARNR)
Arizona Cyclone (1934, IMPER)
Arizona Mahoney (1936, PAR)
Arizona Nights (1934, RLIBL)
Arizona Trails (1935, MIXA)
Arm of the Law (1932, MONO)
Avenger, The (1933, MONO)
Aviator, The (1929, WARNR)
Awful Truth, The (1929, PATHE)
Bachelor Mother (1933, GLDSM)
Bar L Ranch (1930, DOUGF)
Bargain With Bullets (1937, MLDPR)
Bargain, The (1931, FRNTL)
Beast of Borneo (1934, DUWRL)
Beauty Parlor (1932, CHEST)
Behind the Green Lights (1935, MASCT)
Beyond the Caribbean (1938, RSVTA)
Beyond the Law (1930, RAYTN)
Beyond the Law (1934, COLUM)
Beyond the Rio Grande (1930, BILTM)
Big Brain, The (1933, KBSPR)
Big Fight (1930, CRUZE)
Big Money (1930, RIDEK)
Big Party, The (1930, FOX)
Black Waters (1929, SONO)
Blaze O' Glory (1930, SONO)
Bondman, The (1929, SONO)
Border Guns (1934, AYWON)
Border Vengeance (1935, KENTW)
Born to Gamble (1935, LBRTY)
Born to Hang (1934, GLDSM)
Break Up, The (1930, ROBTS)
Breed of the West (1930, BIG4)
Bride of the Desert (1929, CARR)
Bride of the Regiment (1930, FRNTL)
Brides of Sulu (1934, EXPLR)
Brilliant Marriage (1936, INVIN)
Call of the Circus, The (1930, PICKW)
Cameo Kirby (1930, FOX)
Canyon Hawks (1930, BIG4)
Careless Age, The (1930, FRNTL)
Carnival Lady (1933, GLDSM)
Case of Sergeant Grischa, The (1930, RKO)
Cat Creeps, The (1930, UNIV)
Charlie Chan's Chance (1932, FOX)
Charlie Chan's Courage (1934, FOX)
Charlie Chan's Greatest Case (1933, FOX)
Cheyenne Kid (1931, WSTCO)
Cheyenne Tornado (1935, KENTW)
Children of Dreams (1931, WARNR)
Children of Lonelines (1937, JEWEL)
City Park (1934, CHEST)
Climax, The (1930, UNIV)
Clipped Wings (1938, NATPC)
Cock o' the Walk (1930, CRUZE)
Code of Honor (1930, DURLM)
College Love (1929, UNIV)
College Lovers (1930, FRNTL)
Compromised (1931, FRNTL)
Conquest (1928, WARNR)
Convention City (1933, FRNTL)
Convict's Code, The (1930, JONST)
Corruption (1933, IMPER)
Courage (1930, WARNR)
Crazy That Way (1930, FOX)
Cross Streets (1934, INVIN)
Crusade Against Rackets (1937, PRNCP)
Curtain At Eight (1933, MAJES)
Cyclone Kid, The (1931, BIG4)
Damaged Love (1930, SUPOR)
Dance Hall Hostess (1933, MAYFR)
Dancing Dynamite (1931, TLMDR)
Dancing Vienna (1929, FRNTL)
Dark Skies (1929, BILTM)
Dark Streets (1929, FRNTL)
Dead March, The (1937, IMPER)
Defying the Law (1935, AMFC)
Desert Guns (1936, BEAUM)
Desert Mesa (1935, MIXA)
Devil Monster (1935, EXCLS)
Devil on Deck, The (1932, SONO)
Devil Plays, The (1931, CHEST)
Devil's Canyon (1935, SUNST)
Devil's Mate (1933, MONO)
Divorce Racket, The (1932, PARDS)
Dizzy Dames (1936, LBRTY)
Docks of San Francisco (1932, ACTIN)
Doctor's Secret, The (1929, PAR)
Drag (1929, FRNTL)
Drums o' Voodoo (1934, INTSP)
Dude Wrangler, The (1930, SONO)
Dugan of the Badlands (1931, MONO)
Dumbbells in Ermine (1930, WARNR)
Dynamite Delaney (1938, IMPER)
Dynamite Denny (1932, MAYFR)
Easy Millions (1933, FREUL)
Easy Street (1930, MCHUX)
Enemies of the Law (1931, REGAL)
Evidence (1929, WARNR)
Ex-Bad Boy (1931, UNIV)
Ex-Flame (1930, LBRTY)
Exposed (1932, EAGLE)
Eyes of the World, The (1930, INSPR)
Face in the Fog, A (1936, VCTRY)
Fanny Hawthorne (1929, EXCEL)
Fast Companions (1932, UNIV)
Fast Life (1929, FRNTL)
Ferocious Pal, The (1934, LESSR)
Fifty Fathoms Deep (1931, COLUM)
Fighting for the Fatherland (1930, SONO)
Fighting Through (1934, KENTW)
Fighting to Live (1934, PRNCP)
File 113 (1932, ALIED)
Firebrand Jordan (1930, BIG4)
First Aid (1931, SONO)
Five and Ten Cent Annie (1928, WARNR)
Flames (1932, MONO)
Footlights and Fools (1929, FRNTL)
For Love or Money (1939, UNIV)
Forbidden Company (1932, INVIN)
Forgotten (1933, INVIN)
Forgotten Faces (1936, PAR)
Forgotten Men (1933, JEWEL)
Forgotten Women (1931, MONO)
Forgotten Women (1936, IMPER)
45 Calibre Echo (1932, HORNR)
Forward Pass, The (1929, FRNTL)
Fourth Alarm (1930, CONTP)
Fourth Horseman, The (1932, UNIV)
Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 (1929, FOX)
Freckles (1935, RKO)
From Now On (1937, GE)
Frozen Justice (1929, FOX)
Furies, The (1930, FRNTL)
Fury Below (1938, MERGP)
Galloping Kid (1932, IMPER)
Galloping Thru (1931, MONO)
Gamblers, The (1929, WARNR)
Gambling (1934, FRNKH)
Gang Smashers (1939, MLDPR)
Gentleman from Arizona (1939, MONO)
Georgia Rose (1930, ARSTA)
Ghost Talks, The (1929, FOX)
Girl from Havana, The (1929, FOX)
Girl from Woolworth's, The (1929, FRNTL)
Girl in the Case (1934, DUWRL)
Girl of the Golden West, The (1930, FRNTL)
Girls for Sale! (1934, POLRD)
Glad Rag Doll, The (1929, WARNR)
Golden Calf, The (1930, FOX)
Gone Harlem (1938, SACKA)
Gorilla, The (1930, FRNTL)
Grand Parade, The (1930, PATHE)
Great Power, The (1930, WRNRF)
Green Eyes (1934, CHEST)
Guilty or Not Guilty (1932, MONO)
Gun Grit (1936, BE-PE)
Gunners and Guns (1935, H&HPR)
Handcuffed (1929, CARR)
Hard to Get (1929, FRNTL)
Harlem After Midnight (1934, MCHUX)
Harlem on the Prairie (1938, ASSFE)
Harvester, The (1936, REPUB)
Headin' for Trouble (1931, BIG4)
Headleys at Home, The (1938, STNDR)
Hearts in Exile (1929, WARNR)
Hell Bent for Frisco (1931, SONO)
Hell's Valley (1931, BIG4)
Her Private Life (1929, FRNTL)
Hide Out (1930, UNIV)
Highway Patrol (1938, COLUM)
Hit the Deck (1930, RKO)
Hitch Hike to Heaven (1936, INVIN)
Hits and Bits of 1938 (1938, INRDS)
Hold Everything (1930, WARNR)
Hollywood Hoodlum (1934, REGAL)
Hollywood Speaks (1932, COLUM)
Home Towners, The (1928, WARNR)
Honky Tonk (1929, WARNR)
Honor of the Family (1931, FRNTL)
Honor of the Mounted (1932, MONO)
Horror, The (1933, FPPRO)
Hot for Paris (1929, FOX)
Hotel Variety (1933, SCRNC)
Hottentot, The (1929, WARNR)
House of Secrets, The (1929, CHEST)
Human Targets (1932, BIG4)
I Demand Payment (1938, IMPER)
In Line of Duty (1931, MONO)
In Paris A.W.O.L. (1936, RO-WA)
In the Headlines (1929, WARNR)
In the Next Room (1929, FRNTL)
India Speaks (1933, FUTTR)
Iron Master (1932, ALIED)
Is Everybody Happy? (1929, WARNR)
Is There Justice? (1931, SONO)
Ned McCobb's Daughter (1929, PATHE)
Night Nurse (1938, ADVPI)
Night Work (1930, PATHE)
Nix on Dames (1929, FOX)
No Living Witness (1932, MAYFR)
No Ransom (1935, LBRTY)
No, No, Nanette (1930, FRNTL)
Obeah (1935, ARCTS)
Oklahoma Frontier (1939, UNIV)
On Trial (1928, WARNR)
Once a Gentleman (1930, CRUZE)
One Dark Night (1939, SACKA)
One Hysterical Night (1929, UNIV)
Oregon Trail, The (1936, REPUB)
Other Tomorrow, The (1930, FRNTL)
Out of the Crimson Fog (1932, PARGN)
Overland Bound (1929, PRSDO)
Painted Angel, The (1929, FRNTL)
Paris (1929, FRNTL)
Paris Bound (1929, PATHE)
Paroled from the Big House (1938, JDKP)
Partners of the Trail (1931, MONO)
Passport to Paradise (1932, ACTIN)
Pawns of Passion (1929, SONO)
Pecos Dandy, The (1934, MIXA)
Phantom of Death Valley (1936, CONN)
Playthings of Hollywood (1931, PINCL)
Pleasure Crazed (1929, FOX)
Policy Man (1938, SACKA)
Polygamy (1937, UNUSL)
Primrose Path (1931, KENTW)
Prince and the Dancer (1929, SONO)
Pueblo Terror, The (1931, WSTCO)
Queen of the Night Clubs (1929, WARNR)
Quitter, The (1934, CHEST)
Racetrack (1931, CRUZE)
Racing Strain, The (1932, KENTW)
Racketeer Round-Up (1934, H&HPR)
Rampant Age, The (1930, CONTP)
Ranger's Code, The (1933, MONO)
Reckless Living (1938, UNIV)
Red Fork Range (1931, BIG4)
Redhead (1934, MONO)
Reform School (1939, MLDPR)
Reformatory (1938, COLUM)
Revenge at Monte Carlo (1933, ROYER)
Rich People (1930, PATHE)
Rich Relations (1936, CAMEO)
Rider of the Plains, A (1931, SYNDI)
Riders of Golden Gulch (1932, WSTCO)
Riders of the Cactus (1931, BIG4)
Riders of the Rio (1931, ROUND)
Ridin' Law (1930, BILTM)
Riding Kid, The (1931, IRWIN)
Riot Squad (1933, MERIT)
Robin Hood, Jr. (1936, AMBAS)
Romance of the Limberlost (1938, MONO)
Roses of Picardy (1930, EXCEL)
Rough Waters (1930, WARNR)
Royal Box, The (1929, WARNR)
Sacred Flame, The (1929, WARNR)
Safety in Numbers (1938, TCFOX)
Sagebrush Politics (1930, DIXON)
Sailor's Holiday (1929, PATHE)
Salvation Nell (1931, CRUZE)
Sap, The (1929, WARNR)
Scandal (1933, LINCN)
Scarlet Weekend, A (1932, KENTW)
Sea Fury (1929, WHTET)
Second Choice (1930, WARNR)
Secret Menace (1931, IMPER)
Self Defense (1932, MONO)
Seven Faces (1929, FOX)
Seventh Commandment, The (1932, HLWPP)
Shanghai Lady (1929, UNIV)
Shanghaied Love (1931, COLUM)
Shannons of Broadway, The (1929, UNIV)
She Got What She Wanted (1930, CRUZE)
Sheer Luck (1931, BIG4)
Sheriff's Secret, The (1931, HORNR)
Ships of Hate (1931, MONO)
Sin's Pay Day (1932, ACTIN)
Single-Handed Sanders (1932, MONO)
Sinister Hands (1932, KENTW)
Skin Deep (1929, WARNR)
Slightly Married (1932, INVIN)
Smiling Irish Eyes (1929, FRNTL)
So This is Arizona (1931, BIG4)
Song of Kentucky (1929, FOX)
Song of the Flame (1930, FRNTL)
Song of the West (1930, WARNR)
Sonny Boy (1929, WARNR)
Sons of the Saddle (1930, UNIV)
Sophomore, The (1929, PATHE)
Souls for Sale (1937, GLOBF)
South of Sonora (1930, WSTCO)
South Sea Rose (1929, FOX)
Speakeasy (1929, FOX)
Speed Demon (1933, COLUM)
Speed Madness (1932, TLMDR)
St. Louis Woman (1934, SCNSC)
Stark Mad (1929, WARNR)
Strange Cargo (1929, PATHE)
Strictly Modern (1930, FRNTL)
Sugar Hill Baby (1938, CRECC)
Suspicious Mothers (1933, HIART)
Swanee River (1931, SONO)
Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, The (1933, MONO)
Swellhead, The (1930, TIFNY)
Take the Stand (1934, LBRTY)
Temptation (1936, MCHUX)
Terror, The (1928, WARNR)
Tex Takes a Holiday (1932, FRDIV)
Texan's Honor, A (1929, DAVIS)
These Thirty Years (1934, CARVL)
Thirteen Steps (1932, CONGR)
This Thing Called Love (1929, PATHE)
Three Women (1935, SOUND)
Timberesque (1937, GUIDC)
Time, the Place and the Girl, The (1929, WARNR)
Today (1930, MAJES)
Tonight at Twelve (1929, UNIV)
Topa Topa (1938, PENNT)
Trails of Adventure (1935, HORNR)
Trails of Peril (1930, BIG4)
Trails of the Golden West (1931, WSTCO)
Trapped (1931, BIG4)
Troopers Three (1930, TIFNY)
Twin Beds (1929, FRNTL)
Two Gun Caballero (1931, IMPER)
Two O'Clock in the Morning (1929, BELLP)
Unborn Souls (1939, FRAZR)
Unguarded Girls (1929, CRCLE)
Unmasked (1929, WEISS)
Unwritten Law, The (1932, MAJES)
Valley of Bad Men (1931, IRWIN)
Vanishing Men (1932, MONO)
Veiled Woman, The (1929, FOX)
Venus (1929, MRCNT)
Victims of Persecution (1933, POLRD)
Voice of Syama, The (1934, IMPER)
War is a Racket (1934, EURKA)
Way of all Men, The (1930, FRNTL)
Wedding on the Volga, The (1929, HLWDP)
Wedding Rings (1929, FRNTL)
West of Singapore (1933, MONO)
West of the Pecos (1935, RKO)
West of the Rockies (1929, DAVIS)
Western Limited (1932, MONO)
What a Widow! (1930, SWNSN)
What Price Decency? (1933, MAJES)
When Strangers Meet (1934, LBRTY)
White Renegade, The (1931, ARTCL)
White Shoulders (1931, RKO)
Why Leave Home? (1929, FOX)
Wild West Whoopee (1931, HORNR)
Within the Rock (1935, SHOWM)
Wolf of Wall Street (1929, PAR)
Woman Hungry (1931, FRNTL)
Woman in the Night (1929, WLDWD)
Woman Who Dared, The (1934, IMPER)
Women Go On Forever (1931, CRUZE)
Women Men Marry (1931, HUTTC)
Women Won't Tell (1933, CHEST)
Words and Music (1929, FOX)
Worldly Goods (1930, CARR)
Young Nowheres (1929, FRNTL)

Incomplete Sound Films Made Before 1940

Adventures of Chico, The (1938, WOODW)
Aloha (1931, TIFNY)
Annabelle's Affairs (1931, FOX)
Apache Kid's Escape, The (1930, HORNR)
Bars of Hate (1935, VCTRY)
Below the Deadline (1936, CHEST)
Big News (1929, PATHE)
Birthright (1938, MCHUX)
Breach of Promise (1932, WLDWD)
Confessions of a Co-Ed (1931, PAR)
Dames Ahoy! (1930, UNIV)
Dangerously Yours (1933, FOX)
Deception (1932, COLUM)
Derelict (1930, PAR)
Donovan Affair, The (1929, COLUM) track lost
Drake Case, The (1929, UNIV)
Embarrassing Moments (1930, UNIV)
Extortion (1938, COLUM)
Fugitive Road (1934, INVIN)
God's Step Children (1938, MCHUX)
Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929,WARNR) only clip
Good News (1930, MGM) last reel lost
Her Resale Value (1933, MAYFR)
Her Unborn Child (1930, WNDSR)
High Hat (1936, IMPER)
His Glorious Night (1929, MGM)
Hold Your Man (1929, UNIV)
Hot Off the Press (1935, VCTRY)
Hurricane (1930, COLUM)
I'll Tell the World (1934, UNIV)
In Old California (1929, AUDBL)
Innocents of Paris (1929, PAR)
Interference (1929, PAR)
Jaws of the Jungle (1936, JDKP)
Ladies of the Big House (1931, PAR)
Lady from Nowhere (1931, CHEST)
Land of Missing Men, The (1930, CARR)
Little Accident, The (1930, UNIV)
Mamba (1930, TIFNY)
Man from Blankley's, The (1930, WARNR)
Midnight Lady (1932, CHEST)
Mister Antonio (1929, TF-ST)
Monkey's Paw, The (1933, RKO) only fragments
Mysterious Island, The (1929, MGM) color lost
Night Ride (1930, UNIV)
Nothing But the Truth (1929, PAR)
Paddy O'Day (1935, TCFOX)
Painted Faces (1929, TF-ST)
Parade of the West (1930, UNIV)
Paramount on Parade (1930, PAR) no color footage
Pride of the Legion (1933, MASCT)
Reckless Living (1931, UNIV)
Red Hot Rhythm (1929, PATHE)color fragment exists
Return of the Cisco Kid, The (1939, TCFOX)
Rogue Song, The (1929, MGM) only clip survives
Runaround, The (1931, RKO)
She Made Her Bed (1934, PAR)
Sunny Skies (1930, TIFNY)
Swing High (1930, PATHE)
Three Live Ghosts (1929, ARTCC)
Unfaithful (1931, PAR)
Veiled Aristocrats (1932, MCHUX)
When Tomorrow Comes (1939, UNIV)
Wings of Adventure (1930, TIFNY)

 

[drew caldwell]

Overland Bound does exist I have the complete film on nitrate

 

[Likecats]

Does anybody know if there are any existing episodes of the Saturday morning show The Harlem Globetrotter's Popcorn machine? I saw a b&w kinescope clip frpm it and a color clip on Youtube, but that's it.

 

[t1g3r5fan]

I remember that a print of The Mysterious Island was found in Prague with the color intact a few years ago.

 

[DeWilson]

Does anybody know if there are any existing episodes of the Saturday morning show The Harlem Globetrotter's Popcorn machine? I saw a b&w kinescope clip frpm it and a color clip on Youtube, but that's it.

Who knows? There is 16mm kinescope of a complete show which has been running around collector circles for 3 decades.

 

[drew caldwell]

Overland bound 1929 does exist I have a complete print on 35mm

 

[Mark Y]

Apparently some Columbia comedy shorts are lost. An Andy Clyde short, "Not Guilty Enough" (featuring Shemp Howard) was conspicuous by its absence from the Three Stooges Ultimate Collection, which included solo shorts as extras. Author Jim Neibaur looked into it and found (IIRC) that neither Sony, UCLA or the Library Of Congress have any elements.

According to Jerry Beck, there are also Paramount cartoons from as late as the 1960s which are considered lost.