An Intern Stumbled Upon A Copy Of A Silent Film Thought To Have Been Lost To History, And It's About The Life Of Abraham Lincoln

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An Intern Stumbled Upon A Copy Of A Silent Film Thought To Have Been Lost To History, And It's About The Life Of Abraham Lincoln

Last summer, an intern named Dan Martin at the Historic Films Archive in Greenport, New York, made an unexpected discovery. He had been going through some boxes in the archive owner’s office, where forgotten films donated to the archive were stored. That was when he came across five sealed cans containing a 16-millimeter copy of The Heart of Lincoln, a silent film from 1915 thought to have been lost to history. The film was 65 minutes long and w…