In a showing of the times, or perhaps ahead of the times, film director Martin Scorsese has decided to begin releasing the films restored by his World Cinema Foundation online.

The mission of the foundation is “to preserv[e] and restor[e] neglected films from around the world – in particular, those countries lacking the financial and technical ability to do so.”  According to the foundation, “Only about 10 percent of the silent movies made in the United States, for instance, still exist.”

Read the full post at the Pop!Tech blog.

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