Great Gatsby trailer (1926)

Only known footage of the lost 1926 film. Starring Warner Baxter, Lois Wilson, Georgia Hale, and William Powell

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[megaswenson]

Wow! Imagine how wonderful it would have been to watch that in 1926, when everybody wanted to act just like that. What a fabulous trailer!

[Musidorah Bara]

as I know there are no copies of this film ... so sad :(

[TheOnlyHandsomeJack]

Oh, I found out that Tarzan and the Golden Lion was also found in an asylum, this time in France.

[chattychar]

yeah, that was 'The Passion of Joan of Arc' that was found in the asylum.

[Wolfen443]

Wow, I did not know that there so many other movies about it. One silent in 1926, another B & W in 1949, a third with Redford in 1974, and now the latest one with Di Caprio in 2013, Sadly the original and probably more close to the book and period silent one seems lost forever to movie history.

[TheOnlyHandsomeJack]

I looked it up and the movie was called Tarzan and the Golden Lion.

I also found a list of rediscovered lost films on Wikipedia :D

[TheOnlyHandsomeJack]

I seem to remember one lost film that was found in the storehouse of a small projection room in a mental asylum of all places. But yeah your right, unless we are really lucky there are probably no copies left, or ones that we will find anyways...

[TheDAmudbone]

Although you could be right. There is always that slight Argentinian possibility

[TheDAmudbone]

It probably would have deteriorated by now. Lost films haven't disappeared just by way of people losing the reel. The films are lost because they either deteriorate or catch on fire. Many large old movie archives have been destroyed by fires caused by the highly flammable nitrate film. It's not like the reels are just misplaced.