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　　T[w@o differen@/ces betwe]en this  Austrian v%ers! ^ion`\= and the;( generally avail/a-]ble Amer:/ican ver$?s-_io -n are !]imme^diately obvi[,;ous: th@ey differ
 both`( in /[t:h:!$ei^]r* l=e\ngth a\,#n/ d i,?[/n th/e l*.;@ang$_uag)e of] t(@?he intertitle
s. The!? ): Americ@an version i;s only 1,883 metres# long - at \18 frames per #second a differe)(nce of 
some 7: mi@,n#)utes to @ `the$( Au_strian vers(-ion wit*h 2,045 /#metres. W her=eas we o(;ri !=ginally pres=umed only a neglig^!`ible difference,?= resulting from the ^ v^aryi
ng length of th*+e i:[ntertit($les, a [d`_irec@*t com+\p(
arison has ne
/*v:[erthele].._ss sho![=wn that, the A\ustrian) version differs from the %;Amer:ican version both in the# mon.tage ;a?\nd in the du$[ration of i\ndividual scenes. Ye?t how coul_d it happe `n; `, that the later reg@ion =_al![=! dist@=.r@ibution of a can%[(onical US s@ilent fi: )lm w*as#, longe@r , than?) the! "origina%/%$l ver
,si?on"
#?　^*　T.h%,e preva$lent ??A^mer-ica :n versi^=on of Blind Husbands does not corr?espon!
d ,`*@to \th\\e ve!)rsio!n s#hown at the premi+?er[e \]o(f 19 
19. This l.% itt
)le-,known ;(fact was ]already-(`+ published b =@y Richa\rd Koszarski in 1983):*. @+-The fil m!/ was re-released by Un\ ive,rsal Pi# :ct`ures in 1924, in
 a ver$s(%(ion t^^-!hat was )^$1,365 feet;: (416,] metre]s/) short^ er. At 18 frames p$=er seco;n[#!d, this amounts to\@` a ti?m],e 
d`iffe\rence of 2\0 minut/%e:!$s! &q=_+uotTitles were al^tered, snip)^;[pets of action =-remove!=d )a nd at least one ^]:ma*j%%or sc\()ene! ;$ta#)ken)%$ out` entirely, w/#here v
on Steuben and] Margaret visit a small lo,?cal chapel.&*=quo!t (Koszarsk+`i)　　From the present state) of research w,@e can assume that al*l th; e known Americ$an copies of the ?film derive  !from this shortened re:! -release ` version, a copy of whi;@ch U::nivers.al d$-onated to the Muse#(um o\[f \ Mode+r:[n Art in 194[$1. According to Koszar]ski the origin_al negative of? : the film[ was \.$destroyed sometime b;,etween 1956 .%:and 1961 and has therefore ]+^+be/en- ir*retrievably l,-ost. This infor/_mati :=on c.@.ast_*s an in^teresting light on the `: ^Aus`]!trian
=?ve/;$rsion, wh)/i!ch can be dated to the period between$ the 
summe
r of 192=1 and the wi$?!n
#+ter of=[ 1922.  .Fu,,rthe:`_rmore,?=_= the copy is some 200 metres [longer th_-a/n ?the US version of 1924. If_ one foll$_ow+s the det%ails; given by Ric^?hard Koszarski ]=and A(r thur L+^ennig, this mea:n;.s tha$`t, \as far a+_s bo=t++h i`/t@#s date and$ its**- length are con*`^cerned*@ .,, the; Austrian ver /sion li\e\^( s almost e%xa@]ctly in__ the middle betwe.en )_the (lost) `!version sho =wn at `the pr]emi/
ere and+\ the )^%re-releas)ed one.A lar:ge part o:?f the ::addit.;; io;na=^.l] ( length o=*\[f the fi:`lm can be traced% t.;o cuts that were made$@ t/ o t@ he  1924 version in almost every_ shot. Koszar sk* i desc%.ribes-` how the b+?eginning and the end of scenes w^_;ere tri#=mm `^ed, in order to ".speed.
 #]up" the film. Howeve^!\r^$,(:= more excitin#g wa:\s .the : dis`*!c=overy th at _.t)$ he Aust[@r:ian version co:;nt+#_ains s,]hots that  =are ==@m#*?#issing in the American one - s# h.`.o(ts/*],coun t!*e
:%#rshots, inte#(`r=_titl,:es - and furth!@.er_#/ more+ shows;/ differe/;*nces in( its m`+\ontage (i.e. t%-he pl= ,acing of =$the  @i ndividual shots \with/i@/n a se_%!q%u$:ence). All ;/this indicates that Die ;!Rache der(^ B;/erge ^ const\itutes :/the #.oldest a#nd most completely pre)$ser,]+ved m)a? !.terial :of t^+he.%; film.