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[Source: http://www.kinematographie.de/EINSTEIN.JPG]

Here’s a movie that no longer exists and that may not be such a great achievement but would also be something I’d like to see just because it suddenly existed again.  It was a movie called “The Basic Principles of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity” which premiered  at the Frankfurt  Trade Fair on April 2, 1922 and made by Walter Kornblum–it was about Einstein and relativity, and was about the first of its kind; it was a successful film, but with varying reviews, and then managed not to survive them. No copy survives, nothing left of it to speak of save descriptions of the film and the reviews that appeared in newspapers. There is however a terrific piece of research by Milena Wazeck¹ that reconstructs the film from a number of different sources–it is really a very impressive piece of work, a wonderful thing to read, watching the lost history unfold.  (Full text here; and see the abstract² below.)