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Two._ diff?/erences`*![ betw een this Au!s)tria=n version and the gener.*^ally +availa$^ble Ame[,ric ,an version_ ar#e immediat:=ely obvious @they[ differ both in $th?eir le(=ngth, %/+and in the language of the inter-title:s. $]The American version is(); only 1,88@_3 metre#+s long - at% 18 frames per s=%\econd a?+# +di@ffe[r\;:ence o` f some 7 minute:,s t::`o the A%ust!ri#an version wit#[[h $
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`@,045 m)etres. Where:as we originally[: pre#^sum ?ed o.)nly a n_;egligible dif!fer!e:*?-nce, res$)/?ult^$ing fro;;m the va+ryi=,ng leng(th )of t#)?he intertitles, a direc^.t compari.son has nevert\;`hel ess shown t*hat the Austr \ian version differs from the American vers.% ;ion;_ both in the = m;ontage and in ? the d#ura+(tion of individual scenes. Ye
^t how cou (!^ld it h$appe=/.n that t_he l;:a$(,ter regio .nal?? dist\`rib]^ut+;ion o-)*f a canoni[
]cal +:US sile/]n:-t +f]ilm#
was l)onger than th/+e or= iginal ! version　　Th@:e prev.[$;ale?nt Ame, rican ;+ver)$sion ?)of Blind Husbands does$ not corres ]^p`o`nd to the versio+?n shown[# at /@t#`]he premie%.r):e of 1919. Th[*is lit@=?tle-known fa% ct
% was a(%l,re;:?=ady published by R/ichard Kos[:zarski in 1983. The ^film was re-releas`*!ed by U=#niversal P@i$c_tures i. ]n;- 1924, in a version]% tha*t `was 1,`-3]65 feet ()416 metres) shorter. A]t 18[* frame .?s per second, =thi.s amou+*/nts to  a ti@:.me difference  of +=20 min!-\u`-?tes! Titles were alte-!(red, sni**p\$,p!ets o?;f action removed and at least on e major scene #, taken`*:) .,o([ut entir_ely, w=[$#here von= Steub`en and ` Margaret -visi.t /.!a smal! $l loca- ($l chapel. (Koszarski)　　From the present -state of ^_re
search %];:we_. can assu#me  that all the know!#n American copies of the film d:erive from/ this shortened re-releas(
e ve?%rsio_+%:n, a?% ! copy=^ of % !w@!hich Univ ersal d=onated to the Museum#% of $Mod%(_]e.$r,)n+: Ar!#(!t in 194%1. Acc@`;o*($rding to [/_Kos%!* zarski t*he origina]^$l ne: g [=ativ( \e of t
he film wa( s
dest) roye)%d).^#! ;sometime b^.e ]tween 1956 and 1961 .and has theref[+ore be],#en@) irre trievably lost.[ Thi#*s  #in =for_^mati!)o@/!?n![ _;,*cas?ts an interes^ti@
_ng`?@ light o/_n `th=e Au%:strian versi

-on, which (!,/:can _!be`.@ dated /#?: to the pe?rio\d between- the summe*-=r =^%@o#,:f 1\? ,921]; and th#%e $wi@(nter o=+f  1922. Further#more, the copy is ]_s/+; ome ([20%0 metres lo.n@ger th;.an the US versio[n^ of [1924. If one]  foll,[@ ,ow:s the details given by Richar^)d Koszar/ -ski - and  Ar!$th[^_ur Lennig, this m:)eans t;.h*:@at, as far #+a_ @s !#both its dat$e an#d its length a[re concerned`$!, the Austr`i*(an vers`]i[
on lies almost exa+ctly in ].`;the middle
(?; bet?
]w[een the (lost) versi_ on shown at:_ $.) the premiere :and ;the [@ re-rel  eas. (ed_,$ one,=.A large =\!part of t$!he a]dditional,# l-- ength of the film(^  ?can be ) t)\+ra
ced to cuts that were mad.e to *the 1924 ve]@rsion `in almost every shot. Kos?za rski d?escri+.bes how the? b:@eginning and //the end o/f sce/n.)es were t;,_:rimme`!d, in order to sp *$e!ed up the film. Howe+v.er, mor.,e*![ exci \ting was the di/scovery )$that :)the Au)stria_+n versi?\on contains sh*^)o%.ts that are missing (in th_e Amer`ican one -\*) shotscounter#:.shots, inte:rti #;tles - and fu-+
@rthermore -;
+sho
w+s diffe(
(rences%\) in its m=
,+ontage (i[.e.$ the`.[ placi+%ng of t@ /[he indi_;,v!?:i$:@du.( al s h,;_+ ots within ]a sequence). All this indicates that Die : !!Rache de+r ( !Berge%%+, co]#%nstitut+
es the old+=est +=;and most @*(complet[ e;%ly pre:serv:?ed materi*\al of t@\h[$#e\ film.