Remnants of Early films often have a story to tell.
When the question of origin is overlooked, the story can be lost..
If a digital copy is previewed before preservation or is shared with a researcher outside the purview of a film archive, knowledge about how the artifact was collected, circulated, and repurposed threatens to become obscured.
As material artifacts, these film fragments are central to Cinema history, perhaps more than ever in our digital age of easy copying and sharing.
Remnants of Early films often have a story to tell