Cobbling together something resembling the original is a cool idea, but don't the originals still exist somewhere? Surely not all of the original prints have been destroyed? Aren't there movie archivists somewhere carefully preserving every version of every major movie?
Upvoted because, sadly, most people don't know that most movies (even super-famous ones) are constantly at risk from environmental and legal factors. Film degrades, warehouses go up in flames, digital copies are easily lost, and rights management is so difficult and expensive, that a lot of material just... disappears.
It's not a problem limited to movies, btw - plenty of music suffers the same fate.
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It's not a problem limited to movies, btw - plenty of music suffers the same fate.