oldhollywood: Gary Cooper & Fay Wray in Legion of the Condemned (1928, dir. William A. Wellman) (via garycooperscrapbook), which has been classified as a “lost film” (no copies are known to have survived). It depresses me how much film history has been lost. It’s just so much time and energy to save them all. Up at school they throw away films all the time because the archives are full. I have a strip of film from a movie made in the 1950s that I tore off of one they were throwing away when I was there. I wish they would have asked, maybe we students would have taken them and cared for them. I mean, it would be worth a shot. Even if they’re dumb films it’s cool to have one. Better than them being trashed.

oldhollywood:

Gary Cooper & Fay Wray in Legion of the Condemned (1928, dir. William A. Wellman) (via garycooperscrapbook), which has been classified as a “lost film” (no copies are known to have survived).

It depresses me how much film history has been lost. It’s just so much time and energy to save them all. Up at school they throw away films all the time because the archives are full. I have a strip of film from a movie made in the 1950s that I tore off of one they were throwing away when I was there. I wish they would have asked, maybe we students would have taken them and cared for them. I mean, it would be worth a shot. Even if they’re dumb films it’s cool to have one. Better than them being trashed.