[at_a_remove]

Stoker's widow won a lawsuit and all of the copies of Nosferatu were destroyed. Well, all but one. Every copy today has that source, that accidental source, as its ancestor.

"Bothering to preserve" is a terribly blunt filter. Luck (good: a crazed archivist; bad: a nitrate fire) is too fickle to select for the best.

It isn't just the films themselves: often, we have no sense of a given actor's career. We know that they had a huge impact at the time, but we have only secondhand evidence of it.

[blakesterz]

Turns out to be a pretty interesting story, and one that I somehow never heard!

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2011/10/17/dracula-vs-nosfer...

[jutrewag]

The mistake was letting a widow have a say in anything.