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Reel Terror Written by Brandon Leclair Part 1: Crazy Uncle Istvan There is a quality that silent films have which is impossible to capture in the digital era.  Committing images to Nitrocellulose was like leaving a sepia toned relief of the soul, like conducting the ghosts of the period into a choreographed dance of pirouetting projector spools, preserving the director's vision of the times, leaving the artist's dreams congealed in feverish amber light. For cinema enthusiasts like myself, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film vault fire was a bigger tragedy than the burning of the Library of Alexandria, and the intentional destruction of “un