''A Bashful Bigamist'' is a 1921 short

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when ...

that was unknown and thought to be a

lost film A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress. Conditions During most of the 20th century, U.S. copyright law required at least one copy o ...

, but a copy was found in the

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

Film Archive in 2009. The film is currently viewable on the

National Film Preservation Foundation The National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) is an independent, nonprofit organization created by the U.S. Congress to help save America's film heritage. Growing from a national planning effort led by the Library of Congress, the NFPF began op ...

website without a musical score.

Sources

New Zealand Academy of Motion Picture Arts

National Film Preservation Foundation
1921 films American silent short films American black-and-white films 1920s rediscovered films 1921 comedy films Silent American comedy films Rediscovered American films 1920s American films {{short-silent-film-stub