List of rediscovered film footage

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This is a list of rediscovered film footage, i.e. for incomplete films for which missing parts were found. See List of incomplete or partially lost films and List of rediscovered films for films which were thought to have been entirely lost.

Year Film Director Cast Notes Ref
1927 The Battle of the Century Clyde Bruckman Laurel and Hardy For decades, the excerpt included in the 1957 compilation film The Golden Age of Comedy was thought to be the only remaining footage, until the first reel (featuring a boxing match) was found in the late 1970s, but scenes featuring Eugene Pallette, and a final climatic gag showing a cop receiving a pie in the face were missing until the second reel was discovered in a private collection in June 2015. [1][2]
Metropolis Fritz LangGustav Fröhlich, Brigitte Helm After the German premiere, nearly a quarter of Metropolis was cut. Over the years, some of the missing footage resurfaced. In 2008, two different versions of the film were found: one by Museo del Cine from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and another in the National Film Archive of New Zealand. Both versions were then edited into one cut to get as near the original version as possible.[3][4]
Napoléon Abel Gance Albert Dieudonné, Gina Manès, Antonin Artaud Edmond Van Daële Gance destroyed the original uncut negatives that lasted 6 hours in the 1950s, but film historian Kevin Brownlow tracked down various prints of the film and made a final cut lasting 5 hours.[5]
1962 King Kong vs Godzilla Ishirō Honda Tomoyuki Tanaka, Shinichi Sekizawa A few years later after its release in Japan Toho cutted many parts of the film and re-released it, then Toho cut more scenes 2 or 3 times in a row, after that they re-released again at those times, after that the other scenes were lost, during the 1980s searchers were trying to find the lost deleted scenes but were never found until in the 1990s and the 2000s and after that Toho re-released the film again with all the lost deleted scenes put in the movie together and were never cut ever again to this day.

References

  1. ↑ Barry, Dan (July 8, 2015). "Comedy's Sweet Weapon: The Cream Pie". New York Times. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
  2. ↑ Dessem, Matthew (June 17, 2015). "The Greatest Pie Fight in Cinematic History Has Been Found". Slate.
  3. ↑ Earl, Travis. "Metropolis". whatculture.com. Retrieved 2014-04-03.
  4. ↑ Munro, Shaun. "Metropolis 2". whatculture.com. Retrieved 2014-04-04.
  5. ↑ Munro, Shaun. "Napoleon – Destroyed & Put Back Together". whatculture.com. Retrieved 2014-04-04.
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