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A 1931 fire destroyed what appeared to be their [Michelena Studios] entire inventory of films. However, the 26 Sep 2008 Pacific Sun in Marin County reported that a 35mm print of Salomy Jane was found in Australia in 1996, and restored by the Library of Congress and the National Film Preservation Foundation.
For decades it remained a lost film, scarcely eliciting minimal interest from the studio which produced it.
Universal's original negative had already fallen into nitrate decomposition by the time the negative was rediscovered in the 1970s.
Universal's original negative had already fallen into nitrate decomposition by the time the negative was rediscovered in the 1970s.