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Legendary Western director John Ford's long-lost movie, The Scarlet Drop, was recently found 106 years after it premiered, but what is the film, and why is its recovery so important? For decades, The Scarlet Drop was thought to be completely lost to time. The Getty Archive had about half an hour of the film's 50-minute runtime, but there hadn't been a widely available complete copy of the film in nearly a century.
How The Scarlet Drop Was Lost & Found Explained The Majority Of Silent Films Have Been Destroyed Or Lost Entirely, But The Scarlet Drop Was Found In A Chilean Warehouse Close ✕ Remove Ads Though it was an important early step in John Ford's career as a filmmaker, The Scarlet Drop was almost completely lost to history. Unfortunately, the reason The Scarlet Drop was forgotten for over a century is not unique to Ford's film.
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