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Any MoMA screenings before their fire in 1958?


I think it is often assumed that no one who saw this is still alive. Fox's prints were destroyed, along with a majority of their silent catalog, in a 1937 vault fire. I think we can safely assume that no one who saw it in 1917, or any time before 1937, is still alive. Or if they are, they likely wouldn't remember any details about it.

However, there was a print at the New York Museum of Modern Art, that was lost during their 1958 fire.

Does anyone know of any screenings of that MoMA print? If it was indeed screened by MoMA before 1958, it's more feasible that somebody who saw it is still alive and remembers it.

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Good question...

Of course, the original New York Times review is available to read online:
http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D03E6D7113BE03ABC4D52DFB667838C609EDE

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