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简介

Two dif]?fe?:'re<*nces ].
@betw ee ;-,n this ``<A+>us&t%?rian version an _d the gen#eral_l y a vailab,
.]le Ame><r( :ican version( are immed &+iately obvio*_us] they differ bot-!h in thei?:=r l'?)!ength and in the language of 
the interti$ 't/le&;s. The %America=&n'( versio/-n is on%ly 1,883 metres long - at 18& frames per secon@&d/ a di)@fference =!#of @#some )7 mi$!?nu`te/?.s t@[# o the
^ Austrian v/er+^sion with= 2,045 met\,res)
. Wh`&+ereas we originally pres'umed onl`@:y a negligi<ble^>] d!.iff.er[ence, resu`lting $
-from +=[the varyi!]ng ;#(leng[%th of th:e inte, rtit]les, \=a direct *
co?>mparison\( has (nevert- heless s<hown ']that the Au\*^strian ve^rsion (di- !ffers from the Amer)) #ican versio$n both in the montage> and- in the du! r?&=[ation of'% individual sce?:nes.< Yet how/- c/\ould it ha$" ppe),n that the later />regi >onal @*d'istri]\bution of a canonical&& US silent fil`[
=m was )'+-longer than the original version　　The `preva(l(ent (;^-merican version of Blind &!]"Husb$ands does not correspon<:d* to the ver^
sion s`.hown ` at the premiere _*of 1919. Th:>[is li`ttle-kn'own fa^+<c
t w,-[as alread@
y pu%&?blished by Richard= Kos
\'zars%#
ki in \=1983. Th,e film was*
# re-r# el#e$<a?<sed by Univ\(er<`&!sal Pictures "in 192-[^4\, in a version tha+?
t was 1,365 fe[($e#t@+) (416 metres) shorter. At 18 f\% #ra#)mes pe="%r second, this amo[unts to a t`!ime`=@;! difference of 2:`0 minutes !*"= Ti<&t$']les wer_>-e
^>a
ltere[=d, snippets` _#&of action removed and at lea>>st one major scen&e taken ou-_#t ^<en](tir-==ely, wher^, \e vo$</n St]>`euben and Ma&$rgaret visi?!t a [.
small local chapel.<%%' (Ko&+*szarski)([　　F]+rom >the $ pre >se
nt ,state of ]<researc[=h w>:e can assume
 that all the kno]?w></n] A,%_meri _
+@can":. copi+,
es of`! th?:e?&[ f#,i^;\l:'m deriv e from. this s'hort%(e#ned((> re-release ver?$#sion, a copy o')f which Univers al do+)nate=?\d to the Mu
]%se/um =of Modern Ar=$t <?in 19&%?41. Acco*%[#r_*'+ding to Koszarski th/%+@e original \nega )t-ive of th: )!e film wa@^@#"s d $$es.%troyed( [ som _etime between*^> 1956 >"an><[d 1961 and ha s ther[=<efo"#.+r;e b#\_(een irret[=rievably lost. Thi,#*s i&(
n%fo#;rmation cas^ <ts an ?*+^inter$@esting light on the A)'ustrian ve\rsi?
on, whic&+h can b^e dated to t#
\he p 
=e!riod&'* b?=?etween the" sum#!% mer /=<,;of$-( 192[<1 and the winter o[f 192' !2. Furth )ermore, the copy is some `200 metres lo@=n'\ger than th,%&e US version of !-,1)=^924. If one follow\ s `% th#$e det:,/ails given < by Rich*a $"r]d Koszarski \[and Arthur &,Lennig,.[$ thi+s> me"ans that, as f'&ar as both its date  and its l]+ength a#`)re concerned, the Austri &#an ]!ver-@sion lies alm[#o:=st exac
tly [in th?e mid>;dle bet],\ween the (lost$)^,_! version  show"n at the premiere and the re-relea[s,***ed;/>< ` !one.A la=rg_e pa,.!
;rt o-`f th /e additional
 le;>` ngth of; the fi#lm- can b &e trac ed to cut+s that w(ere mad$\e to the ] 1=<<924 version ;in:([) a_lm?ost every ;s,&h&>ot.'  Koszarski; describes &>#-how ,the begi?]:_nning a '^ n

;d [- the end of scenes were trimm)>ed, in order to \=<speed up the ?? film
.& Ho(wever,+
 mor[#"e [[ex!=#!c-,iti$((ng was the discovery th(\at ^t)he Aus'*trian -\version conta';ins shots that are m/;$_issin#!^g in+++< the A#merican o?)ne - shotscountershots, intertitle\s - an>*/d furt)hermore; > s#$)hows differences')] in its montage (i.e. the <plac#ing:! of the individual s*+ ho!,^+ts ([within: a$` sequence). All this indicates ._<%that?((> Die Ra/che de$?r _![Berge co%nstitutes t[he o#ldest and \mo*st completely `" preserved @materi
;#al  ]of* t&@^he fi;+lm.