Brick Gold
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So the collectors are the only ones concerned with them and most of the collectors are film-makers themselves. If an old film like this is selected to be restored then the reels might not be available and a theater copy would need to be used, if available.If you mean the movie reels, they have probably been trashed. This movie was released 54 years ago and it was far from being a blockbuster. The master has obviously been made available on DVD and now it is out being streamed. Probably somewhere in some warehouse, the masters are stored with the chemicals being eroded which is typical of movies that are not big hits. According to to Library of Congress only 14% of commercial films made are still around today. Half the films made before 1950 are gone and 90% of silent films are gone.
You'd think that the studios would want to keep everything locked away no matter how popular it was, but like NASA they appear to throw most of their originals out.