The Heart of Lincoln,” a 1922 movie directed by the pioneering filmmaker Francis Ford, was found at a stock-footage library ...

"He came up with a startled look on his face and said, 'Joe, I really think we've got something special here.'" In 2024, a summer intern named Dan Martin at a New York film archive approached his boss ...

The library had previously listed The Heart of Lincoln in a record of 7,200 silent films classified as “lost.” Many silent movies were printed on unstable nitrate film stock, which is also ...

A piece of film history missing for more than 100 years and thought to be lost forever was found on Long Island by an intern ...

A 1915 movie about the life of Abraham Lincoln, previously thought lost forever, was found on Long Island. “The Heart of Lincoln,” released by Universal, is a silent film about American life during ...

The Heart of Lincoln had been listed by the Library of Congress as among the some-7,000 silent films believed to be completely lost to time. The film was directed by Francis Ford, who also starred ...

During his internship at a Long Island film archive, Dan Martin made a startling discovery: Curled up in five sealed cans was ...

A piece of film history missing for more than 100 years and thought to be lost forever was found on ... to be the only known surviving copy of "The Heart of Lincoln," a silent movie about the ...