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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
  • Silent films can be valuable historical documents of their time.
  • Ninety percent of silent films made before 1930 are now lost.
  • A film is considered lost when no remaining copies are known to exist.
  • Director José Maria Velasco Maidana’s 1925 silent film The Prophecy of the Lake is lost.
  • Director Oscar Micheaux’s 1925 silent film Body and Soul is archived at the UCLA Film & Television Archive in Los Angeles, California.
Which choice most effectively uses information from the given sentences to emphasize a difference between the two movies?
A
José Maria Velasco Maidana’s The Prophecy of the Lake (1925) and Oscar Micheaux’s Body and Soul (1925) are just two examples of silent films from the 1920s.
B
While José Maria Velasco Maidana’s The Prophecy of the Lake is considered lost to history, Oscar Micheaux’s film Body and Soul is archived at the UCLA Film & Television Archive in Los Angeles, California.
C
José Maria Velasco Maidana’s 1925 film The Prophecy of the Lake is among the many lost films of the era.
D
Oscar Micheaux’s film Body and Soul can be found at the UCLA Film & Television Archive in Los Angeles, California.