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Gay Cinema/Lost Cinema: “Children of Loneliness” (1935)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

Last year the Library published The Survival of American Silent Feature Films: 1912-1929, a sobering reminder of the astonishingly poor survival rate of this one sliver of motion picture history. And it’s not just silent features either. Although no comprehensive study has been done of shorts, features, and documentaries across all of film history, the …