The Dutch government has allocated €154 million for the restoration of motion pictures rotting in vaults across The Netherlands. Among the titles to be restored is the 1919 Olive Thomas vehicle The Glorious Lady, which was thought lost for a number of years.
A former Ziegfeld Girl, Thomas died from "accidental poisoning" (some have claimed she committed suicide) at the age of 25 in 1920. She was married to Jack Pickford, Mary Pickford's brother.
In the Amsterdam Weekly, Christina Kral's "Save the Celluloid" discusses the challenges faced by film preservationists.
Click on page 4 to read (and enlarge) the article.
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Glad to hear that the Dutch Government is restoring Olive Thomas's old films. Silent Films are such overlooked pieces of art…here in San Francisco we have the Silent Film festival but it is a genere that not too many young or youngish people are interested in…it's hard enough to get anyone who was born after 1977 interested in films from before that year…god forbid if you watch what used to be called "classic films" or show them in the theatre…that theatre will never be filled.