felixkeepswalking:

A sad story from the Bray Animation Project about finding one of C. Allan Gilbert’s Silhouette Fantasies, all of which are lost films.

“While
researching the Bray films during a visit to the Library of Congress,
we made an exciting discovery. Located in a very large,
recently-received nitrate collection was a print labeled “Bray Gilbert
Silhouette – Decomp.” Upon taking the print out of its can, we quickly
identified it as Haunts For Rent.
Sadly, however, it was also immediately obvious that the print’s
decomposition was in its later, quite severe stages. The photographs
below show some of the few frames that could be viewed from the
mostly-destroyed element. It is still fair to consider Haunts For Rent a lost film.”