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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  • Silent films can be valuable historical documents of their time.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 Oscar Micheaux’s 1927 silent film The House Behind the Cedars is lost.
  • Director Henry MacRae’s 1925 silent film Ace of Spades is also lost.
  • Archives such as the UCLA Film and Television Archive in Los Angeles, California, help preserve some of the remaining films from the 1920s.
Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to make and support a generalization about silent films made before 1930?
A
The UCLA Film and Television Archive in Los Angeles, California, is one of many archives helping to preserve some of the surviving silent films from the 1920s.
B
The lost silent films The House Behind the Cedars and Ace of Spades were made by different directors.
C
The House Behind the Cedars, a film from 1927 by Oscar Micheaux, is now considered lost.
D
While some have been preserved in archives, many silent films from before 1930—in fact, ninety percent of them—are lost to history.