Pickford, Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and Cecil B. DeMille were early champions of film preservation, though Lloyd lost a good number of his silent works in a vault fire in the early 1940s.
Pickford, Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, dan Cecil B. DeMille mengalami kejayaan pelestarian awal film bisu, meskipun Lloyd kehilangan banyak karya film bisu akibat kebakaran di lemari penyimpanan pada dasawarsa 1940-an.