Oh, WOW. Yeah, that would be very cool. I definitely think that once you take the distribution and packaging costs away from the studios, they will likely dig into their vaults and encode some of their lesser known or lesser viewed titles. Whether or not they invest in quality transfers, would depend on the audience, and if they could cover the cost of that effort.
I also know that some of the movies listed on IMDb.com aren't known to exist anymore. I'm referring to many silent films and early talkies. Fox Studios used to have their negatives on nitrate (highly flammable and they decompose quickly) and kept them in a huge vault in NYC. And sometime years later, there was a huge fire. It destroyed most of those older films. I had a dear friend out here in L.A. --- Joe Wagstaff. He passed away not to long ago (close to 100!). Joe was a Broadway hoofer and a protege of George M. Cohan. He was featured in several of his shows as a juvenile and then went off to Hollywood. Joe then starred in some early movie musicals "A Song of Kentucky" and "Let's Go Places." Both films (and another early Irving Berlin film he did) are believed to be lost now, due to that fire.
So sad. But Internet distribution should make the daunting task of presenting all films "known to exist today" more possible. And even likely, given time.
Oh, and ... nice av, by the way, tazzy!
A big "merci!"
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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