Prefaced by a statement that over 75% of all silent films have been lost, it turns out that a 1913 film with an all-Black cast led by vaudevillian Bert Williams was found 101 years after it was filmed. Ron Magliozzi, curator at NYC's famed...See morePrefaced by a statement that over 75% of all silent films have been lost, it turns out that a 1913 film with an all-Black cast led by vaudevillian Bert Williams was found 101 years after it was filmed. Ron Magliozzi, curator at NYC's famed Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), initiated an effort to reconstruct the unidentified film reels using artificial intelligence, facial recognition technology, and a professional lip reader. The task took 10 years to complete; the newly titled Lime Kiln Club Field Day premiered in 2014.
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