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Long-lost movie by US legend rolls again

In fact the films rediscovered in New Zealand were stored for the last few years on a military base, in an ammunition store, “because it's legally the only place where you can do it,” said Stark.

With Fox's help, the restoration of the fragile film copy was undertaken in New Zealand, at the special effects studio of Peter Jackson.

“You don't want to be responsible for losing a recently rediscovered film. That concern did partly lead to our decision to make the preservation of the film in New Zealand,” said Belston.

For film students, “Upstream” will not revolutionize Ford's reputation — but it reflects the influence in his silent-era movies of German expressionism, notably F.W. Murnau, who was also brought to Hollywood by Fox.

“It's not something that is so far-field from what scholars and historians and biographers have charted in terms of his evolution as a director, but it is interesting to see it actually first-hand,” said Pogorzelski.

“This is a period when Ford and many of the other directors at Fox where deeply influenced by what was happening in Germany with the expressionist directors,” he added.

Whatever its historic and artistic value, the rediscovered film is now set to go around the world again.

Those at the Los Angeles screening notably included Thierry Fremeaux, the head of the Cannes film festival, who could decide to present the Ford movie at the world-famous movie-fest on the French Riviera.

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