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  • Silent films can be valuable historical documents of their time.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 Oscar Micheaux's 1922 silent film The Dungeon is lost.
  • Director Jay Marchant's 1925 silent film The Fighting Ranger is lost.
  • Archives such as the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California, help preserve some of the remaining films from the 1920s.
Which choice most effectively uses information from the given sentences to emphasize a similarity between the two movies?
The Dungeon (1922) was directed by Oscar Micheaux, and The Fighting Ranger (1925) was made by Jay Marchant.
A
Archives such as the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California, play an integral part in preserving some of the surviving silent films from the 1920s.
B
Jay Marchant's 1925 film The Fighting Ranger is now considered lost, meaning no copies are known to exist.
C
The Dungeon (1922) and The Fighting Ranger (1925) would be valuable historical documents of the era, but sadly both silent films are lost.
D