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- Silent films can be valuable historical documents of their time.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