Research backlog — not a public-domain list
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| Title | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Great Train Robbery | 1903 | not researched |
| The Night Before Christmas | 1905 | not researched |
| A Christmas Carol | 1910 | not researched |
| From the Manger to the Cross | 1912 | not researched |
| The Invaders | 1912 | not researched |
| Scrooge | 1913 | not researched |
| The Student of Prague | 1913 | not researched |
| Traffic in Souls | 1913 | not researched |
| The Exploits of Elaine | 1914 | not researched |
| The Perils of Pauline | 1914 | not researched |
| Civilization | 1915 | not researched |
| The Cheat | 1915 | not researched |
| The Ghost | 1915 | not researched |
| The Italian | 1915 | not researched |
| A Dog's Life | 1918 | not researched |
| Shoulder Arms | 1918 | not researched |
| The Blue Bird | 1918 | not researched |
| The Romance of Tarzan | 1918 | not researched |
| J'accuse! | 1919 | not researched |
| Male and Female | 1919 | not researched |
| True Heart Susie | 1919 | not researched |
| The Golem | 1920 | not researched |
| The Revenge of Tarzan | 1920 | not researched |
| The Son of Tarzan | 1920 | not researched |
| The Adventures of Tarzan | 1921 | not researched |
| The Phantom Carriage | 1921 | not researched |
| Häxan (Witchcraft Through the Ages) | 1922 | not researched |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | 1922 | not researched |
| A Woman of Paris | 1923 | not researched |
| Sylvester (New Year's Eve) | 1923 | not researched |
| The Pilgrim | 1923 | not researched |
| America | 1924 | not researched |
| He Who Gets Slapped | 1924 | not researched |
| Janice Meredith | 1924 | not researched |
| The Last Laugh | 1924 | not researched |
| The Pilgrims | 1924 | not researched |
| Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | not researched |
| Body and Soul | 1925 | not researched |
| The Eagle | 1925 | not researched |
| The Man Without a Country | 1925 | not researched |
| The Pleasure Garden | 1925 | not researched |
| Flesh and the Devil | 1926 | not researched |
| Old Ironsides | 1926 | not researched |
| 7th Heaven | 1927 | not researched |
| It | 1927 | not researched |
| Love | 1927 | not researched |
| Napoleon | 1927 | not researched |
| The Lodger | 1927 | not researched |
| The Ring | 1927 | not researched |
| The Yankee Clipper | 1927 | not researched |
| Wings | 1927 | not researched |
| Lonesome | 1928 | not researched |
| Spione | 1928 | not researched |
| The Farmer's Wife | 1928 | not researched |
| The Last Command | 1928 | not researched |
| The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1928 | not researched |
| The Patriot | 1928 | not researched |
| The Wedding March | 1928 | not researched |
| Applause | 1929 | not researched |
| Blackmail | 1929 | not researched |
| The Hoose-Gow | 1929 | not researched |
| The Iron Mask | 1929 | not researched |
| The Last Performance | 1929 | not researched |
| The Love Parade | 1929 | not researched |
| Abraham Lincoln | 1930 | not researched |
| Below Zero | 1930 | not researched |
| Blotto | 1930 | not researched |
| Cimarron | 1930 | not researched |
| Hell's Angels | 1930 | not researched |
| Little Caesar | 1930 | not researched |
| Shivering Shakespeare | 1930 | not researched |
| The Big House | 1930 | not researched |
| The Blue Angel | 1930 | not researched |
| Arrowsmith | 1931 | not researched |
| Be Big! | 1931 | not researched |
| Behind Office Doors | 1931 | not researched |
| Branded | 1931 | not researched |
| Chickens Come Home | 1931 | not researched |
| City Lights | 1931 | not researched |
| Come Clean | 1931 | not researched |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 1931 | not researched |
| Dracula | 1931 | not researched |
| Frankenstein | 1931 | not researched |
| Kept Husbands | 1931 | not researched |
| Lonely Wives | 1931 | not researched |
| Love Business | 1931 | not researched |
| M | 1931 | not researched |
| Millie | 1931 | not researched |
| Monkey Business | 1931 | not researched |
| One Good Turn | 1931 | not researched |
| Pardon Us | 1931 | not researched |
| Possessed | 1931 | not researched |
| Svengali | 1931 | not researched |
| The Champ | 1931 | not researched |
| The Criminal Code | 1931 | not researched |
| The Front Page | 1931 | not researched |
| The Lady Refuses | 1931 | not researched |
| The Maltese Falcon | 1931 | not researched |
| The Public Defender | 1931 | not researched |
| The Public Enemy | 1931 | not researched |
| The Sin of Madelon Claudet | 1931 | not researched |
| The Smiling Lieutenant | 1931 | not researched |
| The Speckled Band | 1931 | not researched |
| The Stolen Jools | 1931 | not researched |
| Trader Horn | 1931 | not researched |
| Waterloo Bridge | 1931 | not researched |
| A Farewell to Arms | 1932 | not researched |
| Bird of Paradise | 1932 | not researched |
| Freaks | 1932 | not researched |
| Horse Feathers | 1932 | not researched |
| If I Had a Million | 1932 | not researched |
| Murders in the Rue Morgue | 1932 | not researched |
| Pack Up Your Troubles | 1932 | not researched |
| Rain | 1932 | not researched |
| Tarzan the Ape Man | 1932 | not researched |
| The Animal Kingdom | 1932 | not researched |
| The Death Kiss | 1932 | not researched |
| The Monster Walks | 1932 | not researched |
| The Most Dangerous Game | 1932 | not researched |
| The Old Dark House | 1932 | not researched |
| The Shadow of the Eagle | 1932 | not researched |
| The Sign of Four | 1932 | not researched |
| Vampyr | 1932 | not researched |
| White Zombie | 1932 | not researched |
| A Study in Scarlet | 1933 | not researched |
| Design for Living | 1933 | not researched |
| Duck Soup | 1933 | not researched |
| International House | 1933 | not researched |
| Murders in the Zoo | 1933 | not researched |
| Riders of Destiny | 1933 | not researched |
| Sagebrush Trail | 1933 | not researched |
| The Death Race | 1933 | not researched |
| The Devil's Mate | 1933 | not researched |
| The Emperor Jones | 1933 | not researched |
| The Invisible Man | 1933 | not researched |
| The Shadow Laughs | 1933 | not researched |
| The Vampire Bat | 1933 | not researched |
| The Whispering Shadow | 1933 | not researched |
| Blue Steel | 1934 | not researched |
| It Happened One Night | 1934 | not researched |
| Maniac | 1934 | not researched |
| Neath the Arizona Skies | 1934 | not researched |
| Of Human Bondage | 1934 | not researched |
| Randy Rides Alone | 1934 | not researched |
| Tarzan and His Mate | 1934 | not researched |
| The Black Cat | 1934 | not researched |
| The Lawless Frontier | 1934 | not researched |
| The Live Ghost | 1934 | not researched |
| The Lucky Texan | 1934 | not researched |
| The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1934 | not researched |
| The Man from Utah | 1934 | not researched |
| The Star Packer | 1934 | not researched |
| The Trail Beyond | 1934 | not researched |
| Twentieth Century | 1934 | not researched |
| West of the Divide | 1934 | not researched |
| A Night at the Opera | 1935 | not researched |
| Becky Sharp | 1935 | not researched |
| Captain Blood | 1935 | not researched |
| Lawless Range | 1935 | not researched |
| Mark of the Vampire | 1935 | not researched |
| Paradise Canyon | 1935 | not researched |
| Rainbow Valley | 1935 | not researched |
| Scrooge | 1935 | not researched |
| Texas Terror | 1935 | not researched |
| The 39 Steps | 1935 | not researched |
| The Dawn Rider | 1935 | not researched |
| The Fighting Marines | 1935 | not researched |
| The Fixer Uppers | 1935 | not researched |
| The Lawless Nineties | 1935 | not researched |
| The New Adventures of Tarzan | 1935 | not researched |
| The New Frontier | 1935 | not researched |
| The Phantom Empire | 1935 | not researched |
| The Raven | 1935 | not researched |
| The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes | 1935 | not researched |
| Tit for Tat | 1935 | not researched |
| Top Hat | 1935 | not researched |
| Westward Ho | 1935 | not researched |
| Christmas Comes But Once a Year | 1936 | not researched |
| Disorder in the Court | 1936 | not researched |
| Flash Gordon | 1936 | not researched |
| General Spanky | 1936 | not researched |
| King of the Pecos | 1936 | not researched |
| Modern Times | 1936 | not researched |
| My Man Godfrey | 1936 | not researched |
| Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor | 1936 | not researched |
| Reefer Madness | 1936 | not researched |
| Swing Time | 1936 | not researched |
| The Bohemian Girl | 1936 | not researched |
| The Devil-Doll | 1936 | not researched |
| The Lucky Corral | 1936 | not researched |
| The Undersea Kingdom | 1936 | not researched |
| The Vigilantes Are Coming | 1936 | not researched |
| A Day at the Races | 1937 | not researched |
| A Star Is Born | 1937 | not researched |
| Dick Tracy | 1937 | not researched |
| Lost Horizon | 1937 | not researched |
| Nothing Sacred | 1937 | not researched |
| Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves | 1937 | not researched |
| S.O.S. Coast Guard | 1937 | not researched |
| Swing High, Swing Low | 1937 | not researched |
| The Mysterious Pilot | 1937 | not researched |
| The Painted Stallion | 1937 | not researched |
| The Shadow Strikes | 1937 | not researched |
| The Unknown Terror | 1937 | not researched |
| Way Out West | 1937 | not researched |
| Wild West Days | 1937 | not researched |
| Algiers | 1938 | not researched |
| Block-Heads | 1938 | not researched |
| Dick Tracy Returns | 1938 | not researched |
| Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars | 1938 | not researched |
| International Crime | 1938 | not researched |
| Letter of Introduction | 1938 | not researched |
| Room Service | 1938 | not researched |
| Sinners in Paradise | 1938 | not researched |
| The Adventures of Robin Hood | 1938 | not researched |
| The Dawn Patrol | 1938 | not researched |
| The Fighting Devil Dogs | 1938 | not researched |
| The Lady Vanishes | 1938 | not researched |
| The Lone Ranger | 1938 | not researched |
| The Terror of Tiny Town | 1938 | not researched |
| Wives Under Suspicion | 1938 | not researched |
| You Can't Take It with You | 1938 | not researched |
| Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp | 1939 | not researched |
| At the Circus | 1939 | not researched |
| Gulliver's Travels | 1939 | not researched |
| Gunga Din | 1939 | not researched |
| Love Affair | 1939 | not researched |
| Made for Each Other | 1939 | not researched |
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | not researched |
| Stagecoach | 1939 | not researched |
| The Flying Deuces | 1939 | not researched |
| The Gorilla | 1939 | not researched |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | 1939 | not researched |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame | 1939 | not researched |
| The Little Princess | 1939 | not researched |
| The Lone Ranger Rides Again | 1939 | not researched |
| The Shadow's Alibi | 1939 | not researched |
| You Can't Cheat an Honest Man | 1939 | not researched |
| Zorro's Fighting Legion | 1939 | not researched |
| Beyond Tomorrow | 1940 | not researched |
| Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe | 1940 | not researched |
| Go West | 1940 | not researched |
| Junior G-Men | 1940 | not researched |
| Our Town | 1940 | not researched |
| Santa Fe Trail | 1940 | not researched |
| Saps at Sea | 1940 | not researched |
| Second Chorus | 1940 | not researched |
| The Ape | 1940 | not researched |
| The Bank Dick | 1940 | not researched |
| The Devil Bat | 1940 | not researched |
| The Green Hornet | 1940 | not researched |
| The Sea Hawk | 1940 | not researched |
| The Shadow | 1940 | not researched |
| Hoppity Goes to Town | 1941 | not researched |
| Horror Island | 1941 | not researched |
| Meet John Doe | 1941 | not researched |
| Mr. Bug Goes to Town | 1941 | not researched |
| Never Give a Sucker an Even Break | 1941 | not researched |
| Penny Serenade | 1941 | not researched |
| Pot o' Gold | 1941 | not researched |
| Sky Raiders | 1941 | not researched |
| Tell-Tale Heart | 1941 | not researched |
| The Big Store | 1941 | not researched |
| The Ghost Train | 1941 | not researched |
| The Mechanical Monsters | 1941 | not researched |
| Topper Returns | 1941 | not researched |
| Billion Dollar Limited | 1942 | not researched |
| Bowery at Midnight | 1942 | not researched |
| Destruction Inc. | 1942 | not researched |
| Don Winslow of the Navy | 1942 | not researched |
| Electric Earthquake | 1942 | not researched |
| Eleventh Hour | 1942 | not researched |
| Gang Busters | 1942 | not researched |
| Japoteurs | 1942 | not researched |
| Junior G-Men of the Air | 1942 | not researched |
| Pardon My Sarong | 1942 | not researched |
| Ride 'Em Cowboy | 1942 | not researched |
| Showdown | 1942 | not researched |
| Terror on the Midway | 1942 | not researched |
| The Arctic Giant | 1942 | not researched |
| The Boogie Man Will Get You | 1942 | not researched |
| The Bulleteers | 1942 | not researched |
| The Corpse Vanishes | 1942 | not researched |
| The Mad Monster | 1942 | not researched |
| The Magnetic Telescope | 1942 | not researched |
| The Pride of the Yankees | 1942 | not researched |
| Volcano | 1942 | not researched |
| Dead Men Walk | 1943 | not researched |
| The Adventures of Smilin' Jack | 1943 | not researched |
| The Ape Man | 1943 | not researched |
| The Ghost Ship | 1943 | not researched |
| The Masked Marvel | 1943 | not researched |
| The Mummy Strikes | 1943 | not researched |
| The Outlaw | 1943 | not researched |
| The Phantom | 1943 | not researched |
| The Underground World | 1943 | not researched |
| Bluebeard | 1944 | not researched |
| Captain America | 1944 | not researched |
| Ministry of Fear | 1944 | not researched |
| One Body Too Many | 1944 | not researched |
| Return of the Ape Man | 1944 | not researched |
| The Monster Maker | 1944 | not researched |
| The Return of the Vampire | 1944 | not researched |
| The Tiger Woman | 1944 | not researched |
| The Woman in the Window | 1944 | not researched |
| Voodoo Man | 1944 | not researched |
| Zorro's Black Whip | 1944 | not researched |
| Blood on the Sun | 1945 | not researched |
| Brenda Starr, Reporter | 1945 | not researched |
| Captain Kidd | 1945 | not researched |
| Love Laughs at Andy Hardy | 1945 | not researched |
| Scarlet Street | 1945 | not researched |
| The Great Flamarion | 1945 | not researched |
| The Master Key | 1945 | not researched |
| The Monster and the Ape | 1945 | not researched |
| The Purple Monster Strikes | 1945 | not researched |
| The Royal Mounted Rides Again | 1945 | not researched |
| The Southerner | 1945 | not researched |
| The Strange Mr. Gregory | 1945 | not researched |
| It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | not researched |
| The Chase | 1946 | not researched |
| The Face of Marble | 1946 | not researched |
| The Lost Sleep | 1946 | not researched |
| The Strange Love of Martha Ivers | 1946 | not researched |
| The Stranger | 1946 | not researched |
| Till the Clouds Roll By | 1946 | not researched |
| Angel and the Badman | 1947 | not researched |
| Brideless Groom | 1947 | not researched |
| Life with Father | 1947 | not researched |
| My Favorite Brunette | 1947 | not researched |
| Sing a Song of Six Pants | 1947 | not researched |
| The Red House | 1947 | not researched |
| He Walked by Night | 1948 | not researched |
| My Dear Secretary | 1948 | not researched |
| Superman | 1948 | not researched |
| The Amazing Mr. X | 1948 | not researched |
| The Naked City | 1948 | not researched |
| Africa Screams | 1949 | not researched |
| Batman and Robin | 1949 | not researched |
| King of the Rocket Men | 1949 | not researched |
| Malice in the Palace | 1949 | not researched |
| The Big Wheel | 1949 | not researched |
| The Inspector General | 1949 | not researched |
| The New Adventures of Batman and Robin | 1949 | not researched |
| Too Late for Tears | 1949 | not researched |
| At War with the Army | 1950 | not researched |
| Cyrano de Bergerac | 1950 | not researched |
| D.O.A. | 1950 | not researched |
| March of the Wooden Soldiers | 1950 | not researched |
| Quicksand | 1950 | not researched |
| The Great Rupert | 1950 | not researched |
| The Jackie Robinson Story | 1950 | not researched |
| Woman on the Run | 1950 | not researched |
| Father's Little Dividend | 1951 | not researched |
| Go for Broke! | 1951 | not researched |
| Mr. Imperium | 1951 | not researched |
| Royal Wedding | 1951 | not researched |
| Scrooge (A Christmas Carol) | 1951 | not researched |
| The Painted Hills | 1951 | not researched |
| Three Guys Named Mike | 1951 | not researched |
| Utopia | 1951 | not researched |
| Vengeance Valley | 1951 | not researched |
| Jack and the Beanstalk | 1952 | not researched |
| Kansas City Confidential | 1952 | not researched |
| King of the Congo | 1952 | not researched |
| Radar Men from the Moon | 1952 | not researched |
| Road to Bali | 1952 | not researched |
| Zombies of the Stratosphere | 1952 | not researched |
| Beat the Devil | 1953 | not researched |
| Fear and Desire | 1953 | not researched |
| Glen or Glenda | 1953 | not researched |
| The Hitch-Hiker | 1953 | not researched |
| The Joe Louis Story | 1953 | not researched |
| The Lost Planet | 1953 | not researched |
| Jail Bait | 1954 | not researched |
| Salt of the Earth | 1954 | not researched |
| Suddenly | 1954 | not researched |
| The Last Time I Saw Paris | 1954 | not researched |
| Bride of the Monster | 1955 | not researched |
| Dementia | 1955 | not researched |
| Panther Girl of the Kongo | 1955 | not researched |
| Rage at Dawn | 1955 | not researched |
| The Big Combo | 1955 | not researched |
| Indestructible Man | 1956 | not researched |
| Rock, Rock, Rock! | 1956 | not researched |
| The Beast of Hollow Mountain | 1956 | not researched |
| The Black Sleep | 1956 | not researched |
| The Amazing Colossal Man | 1957 | not researched |
| The Brain from Planet Arous | 1957 | not researched |
| Attack of the 50 Foot Woman | 1958 | not researched |
| Earth vs. the Spider | 1958 | not researched |
| The Screaming Skull | 1958 | not researched |
| The Terror from Beyond Space | 1958 | not researched |
| War of the Colossal Beast | 1958 | not researched |
| A Bucket of Blood | 1959 | not researched |
| Attack of the Giant Leeches | 1959 | not researched |
| Teenagers from Outer Space | 1959 | not researched |
| The Bat | 1959 | not researched |
| The Giant Gila Monster | 1959 | not researched |
| The Killer Shrews | 1959 | not researched |
| The Wasp Woman | 1959 | not researched |
| The Amazing Transparent Man | 1960 | not researched |
| The Last Woman on Earth | 1960 | not researched |
| Creature from the Haunted Sea | 1961 | not researched |
| Night Tide | 1961 | not researched |
| The Beast of Yucca Flats | 1961 | not researched |
| The Deadly Companions | 1961 | not researched |
| The Mask | 1961 | not researched |
| The Phantom Planet | 1961 | not researched |
| Eegah | 1962 | not researched |
| The Brain That Wouldn't Die | 1962 | not researched |
| The Sadist | 1963 | not researched |
| The Skydivers | 1963 | not researched |
| Santa Claus Conquers the Martians | 1964 | not researched |
| The Atomic Brain | 1964 | not researched |
| The Creeping Terror | 1964 | not researched |
| The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies | 1964 | not researched |
| Manos: The Hands of Fate | 1966 | not researched |
| Red Zone Cuba | 1966 | not researched |
| Horror Express | 1972 | not researched |
| Invasion of the Bee Girls | 1973 | not researched |
| The Giant Spider Invasion | 1975 | not researched |