Silent films recovered: These new releases are oldest in a long time

Rex Ingram's "The Arab" (1924) is among the "lost" movies recovered in Russia. (Library Of Congress)

By Peter Finn

Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, February 9, 2011

 

In a large mahogany box embellished with silk pockets and Cyrillic lettering, 10 lost pieces of America's cultural heritage recently landed in Culpeper, Va. - thanks, in a roundabout way, to the Soviet Union and a bureaucratic penchant for filing.

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