I don't remember if it was in the movie, which was heavily fictionalized, but it's what happened in real life.

All-black films are lost too. They tend to have an even lower survivability rate because fewer people cared about them.

He didn't sell them off. The French government seized them after his bankruptcy.

How is this the "first real Sherlock Holmes film" and not the 1914 version of A STUDY IN SCARLET—which by the way is on the BFI's most-wanted list?