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- Silent films can be valuable historical documents of their time.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.