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Track which of the BFI 75 Most Wanted lost films have turned up, and log the leads

In 2010 the BFI listed 75 British films “missing, believed lost”, led by Hitchcock’s The Mountain Eagle. Some have been found since, but the up-to-date picture is scattered across old articles. Build the definitive sourced tracker, and if you can, surface new leads for the films still missing.

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A solution must include

  1. All 75 films listed with current status: found, partial or still missing
  2. Every status backed by a source link
  3. For still-missing films, known fragments, stills, scripts or reported prints documented where they exist
  4. Published as a public page or open dataset
  5. A last-checked date on every entry

How it’s verified: Public URL or repo; Source list; Optional: archive confirmation for any new lead.

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