List of Rediscovered Films - Silent Era - 1910s

1910s

Year Film Director Cast Notes Ref
1910 Frankenstein J. Searle Dawley Charles Ogle A print was bought by a film collector in the 1950s, who was not aware of its rarity until decades later.
1911 A Manly Man Thomas H. Ince
1911 At the Duke's Command Thomas H. Ince
1911 The Colleen Bawn
1911 Karađorđe Ilija Stanojević-Čiča The first Serbian feature film, thought lost since 1928. Material from this movie was found in Austrian Film Archives in 2003.
1911 The Mirror Thomas H. Ince
1911 Maid or Man Thomas H. Ince
1911 The Sultan's Garden Thomas H. Ince
1912 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Lucius Henderson James Cruze
1912 A Fool and His Money Alice Guy-Blaché
1912 En Stærkere magt Hjalmar Davidsen, Eduard Schnedler-Sørensen Valda Valkyrien Preserved by the Danish Film Institute.
1912 In Nacht und Eis Mime Misu The second Titanic movie, was presumed lost around 1914 but found in a private film library in Germany in 1998.
1912 Under Two Flags
1912 Richard III André Calmettes, James Keane Robert Gemp, Frederick Warde The first known full-length William Shakespeare film. Found in an Oregon projectionist's collection in 1996.
1913 Poor Jake's Demise Allen Curtis Lon Chaney, Sr., Louise Fazenda Chaney's first credited role. Was discovered in 2007 among several hundred other reels of film in an English collection.
1913 The Prisoner of Zenda Edwin S. Porter
1913 When Lincoln Paid Francis Ford Recovered in 2006.
1914 The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies Walter Edwin Mary Fuller, Yale Boss Discovered in 2009 in the New Zealand Film Archive.
1914 Won in a Closet Mabel Normand Mabel Normand Discovered in 2009 in the New Zealand Film Archive.
1914 Cruel, Cruel Love George Nichols Charlie Chaplin
Minta Durfee		 Complete nitrate copy found in South America.
1914 Der Hund von Baskerville (The Hound of the Baskervilles) Rudolf Meinert
1914 Salomy Jane William Nigh, Lucius Henderson Beatriz Michelena, House Peters Complete nitrate copy found in Australia in 1996.
1914 The Girl Stage Driver Webster Cullison Norbert A. Myles, Edna Payne, Will E. Sheerer An incomplete 35mm positive print was discovered in 2009 in the New Zealand Film Archive.
1914 A Thief Catcher Charlie Chaplin A print was discovered in 2010 at a Michigan antique sale.
1914 The Stain Frank Powell Edward José, Theda Bara A print of the film was discovered in Australia in the 1990s.
1915 Double Trouble William Christy Cabanne
1915 His Lordship's Dilemma W. C. Fields Found in a Belgian film archive.
1915 Peculiar Patients' Pranks Hal Roach Harold Lloyd Found in Australia's National Film and Sound Archive.
1915 Youth Harry Handworth Film exists in the British Film Institute archive.
1916 East Lynne Bertram Bracken Theda Bara One of Bara's four surviving films.
1916 Mysteriet natten till den 25:e Georg af Klercker
1916 Als ich tot war Ernst Lubitsch Found in 1994 in a Slovenian archive.
1916 Purity Rae Berger Film survives in an archive in France.
1916 Snow White Inspired Walt Disney to make films.
1916 Gretchen the Greenhorn Chester M. Franklin, Sidney Franklin Dorothy Gish Recovered in 1991.
1916 Zepped Charlie Chaplin A propaganda short film, a copy was found in 2009, and a second in 2011.
1917 Beatrice Fairfax Olive Thomas All but one episode of this series survives in the Library of Congress archive.
1917 Bucking Broadway John Ford Found in 2002 in a French archive.
1917 His Wedding Night Roscoe Arbuckle Roscoe Arbuckle, Buster Keaton
1917 The Image Maker Eugene Moore Film survives in a private collection.
1917 Max and His Taxi
1917 Max Comes Across
1917 Max Wants a Divorce
1917 A Reckless Romeo Roscoe Arbuckle Roscoe Arbuckle, Al St. John Found in an unmarked canister at the Norwegian Film Institute in 1998, alongside The Cook.
1917 The Rough House Roscoe Arbuckle Roscoe Arbuckle, Buster Keaton
1918 The Cook Roscoe Arbuckle Roscoe Arbuckle, Buster Keaton Found in an unmarked canister at the Norwegian Film Institute in 1998, alongside A Reckless Romeo.
1918 Hell Bent John Ford A print exists in the Czechoslovak Film Archive.
1918 Mr. Fix-It Allan Dwan Douglas Fairbanks Restored by George Eastman House and shown at San Francisco Silent Film Festival in July 2011.
1918 Oh Baby! James Ard
1919 Back Stage Roscoe Arbuckle Roscoe Arbuckle, Buster Keaton
1919 Camping Out (film) Roscoe Arbuckle Roscoe Arbuckle, Al St. John Reconstructed from reels found in the Nederlands Filmmuseum and Cineteca Nazionale (Rome) storage vaults in 2002.
1919 Scarlet Days D. W. Griffith
1919 The Spiders Fritz Lang Restored in 1978 from a newly-discovered original print, 1st of 2-part series.
1919 The Valley of the Giants James Cruze Wallace Reid Found in Russian state archives Gosfilmofond, Moscow. Digital copy given to the Library of Congress in 2010.
1919 When Bearcat Went Dry Oliver L. Sellers Lon Chaney, Sr. Found in a projectionist's collection.
1919 The Wicked Darling Tod Browning Lon Chaney, Sr. A copy was found in Europe in the 1990s, and now resides in the Nederlands Filmmuseum.
1919 You're Fired James Cruze Wallace Reid Found in Russian state archives Gosfilmofond, Moscow. Digital copy given to the Library of Congress in 2010.
1919 The Witness for the Defense George Fitzmaurice Elsie Ferguson Print discovered in Gosfilmofond. Screened at Univ. of North Dakota. Ferguson's only surviving silent film.
1919 Different from the Others Richard Oswald Conrad Veidt German copies destroyed by the Nazis in 1933 and thought lost since then. A copy was found in the Ukraine in the late 1970s and restored by the Stadtmuseum München. One of the earliest known sympathetic depictions of homosexuality in film.
1919 Back to God's Country David Hartford Nell Shipman Print discovered in Europe and restored in the 1990s. Scenario by Nell Shipman and novelist James Oliver Curwood of his novel

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