Mystery AtlasLondon After Midnight (1927)
A 1927 silent horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney; the best-known example of a lost film, its last confirmed print was destroyed in a 1965 vault fire at the MGM film storage facility in Culver City, California.
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Events
- BBC Videotape Wiping Practice1960s-1978
London After Midnight (1927) is frequently compared to BBC Videotape Wiping Practice — The two most commonly cited exemplars of lost media, though one was a single work lost to fire and the other an institutional policy that destroyed many works systematically.
Places
London After Midnight (1927) occurred in United States.
Concepts & Beliefs
London After Midnight (1927) is an instance of Lost Media.
Media Works
- The Mountain Eagle (1926)released 1926
London After Midnight (1927) is frequently compared to The Mountain Eagle (1926) — Both are silent-era films lost to different mechanisms: institutional non-preservation of a British production versus a single vault fire destroying an American studio's last surviving print.
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