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!o differe"[nces betwe>#_en t>his Austria%.n @versio .&n^_ and the gene%rally available Am@,er^&ican *version /#are=<` imm&edia-tel] y.^#& *obvio;>us th )'\.ey: dif$fer bo[*$^th in t heir length [!%and i -n the languag/(*e o_=^'f= the in([terti]tles!&. ! The "< Americ'&_)an versio^"n is only 1,88@)3 met:]/res _\long - at 18 ( fr)ame"s per secon<d a difference of; some 7 minutes to the A:?ust _ri+!^an version with  2,045 =_m&[)e
tres. W +he
`reas w_+e origina+
lly pres u'`med only a, negligib*le differenc!,e, resulting f@
rom the varyi)=,ng length ;-@%of the interti:()tles, a di>^rect compar ]ison has nevertheless sho]%wn that t he! Austr+ #ian ve%=rsion ^>differs fro/_m the`= Ameri-[can versi ;o!)n?= both in the m
(_ontage and in the dur`>a$(t_ion of individ-#ual
\ ^^'?scen@es. Yet how could it happen that the later" regional d <istributi+on of a c^anonical US silent film was longer than th=e origina([l version　　The pre^va)lent Americ@an >> version of Blind Hu^sbands does not_>\ c=@%orrespond ( to the -
version shown at t#@ he premiere of 1919.
$_This litt*'`le-know`"+n fac(;t was`=" a%_+lready pu"blished[' by Ri]- 'ch$a*rd Ko<s]zarski in 1983. The  film was= re++[-rel":ease %d<(] by- !.% Universal Pi:ct)ur?*?es in
/ 192%;@4, in a version that wa?s 1,365 fe@ et (416 metres)[ ]] shorter. =>At 18 frame"]/s per s!ec;<o:?nd, this amou)).&nts '. t\o  t#+i=m-^,e dif<f#
]erence of 2 #0 minute# ?s ! Tit)?l .es we&r$e alte\'red, snipp&ets of action remo<-ved and); at 'lea'st one major scene t_&aken \ ou@_t%[_ entirely, ^\<where )vo]n Steuben\ +-?an" =d Mar]
garet visit a smal%>l local *_\chapel.`_ (Koszarski)　　From the prese"+ n..
!t stat_`@e o)+
f resear*#c-h"" w-'e can as[&s@ume that all the known America#"n copies- ` of the f*:ilm derive) f/#?r+_om this shortened /re.:-release
version, a /=copy of'/ whi)ch Univer, _sal ]dona+?ted t:"o:) the Museum)=+ of &>Modern Art in 1
&941. >`Accord&!in@(g : :to K (.,oszarski t %h
e original &negative of+ th\%e[ fil;'m -\was de,>st&!"[royed so]?)m.[et[ime between ?1956 _.an**d 1961_
, and ha\_+<s t .h [er.,ef )ore been i>
-rr?+etr/ ievably lost. Th\is i@-)nf?<'o;/rmatio==n casts\% a("n in $#teresting ,light on the [)_Au\=strian v@ers!ion, whi[ch 'c[/an be dat-,ed to $?%: the period b@-=etw .$een t;"he sum*)>me/*r of 19]21@;^ and the winter of / 1922. Furthermore,+' t 
he copy is some ,&<2:00 m_/etre]/$s long<_%e^,,r th^ `an the\_ US ve
rsion> of 1924. ,>If one follows,( =[the details gi+ ven&- by Richar.;?[d Kos;$ z^arski and Art\^&hur > Lennig,'$& < [this means)! t:]hat, as f]?ar as b:oth ( its "d$ ate and its length are co;<ncer-ned, the Austrian version li?+e<\%(]s almost* e&`x ^/a?ctl.*y i_n ,
the#: middle bet, +ween ? the (los:_t;) version shown at the premie`!re/]# and th/e re-r%eleased one.A@"% large part of the a" *dd_<itional  $length of the film ca%#+=?n be tr( aced_*.$ to cuts that were made =(to the 192 4 <version in/> almost every +$\sh;<ot. Koszarski des&^cribe;s ho&(w the beginning #
),and the( /.
!-end o;f scene"s w<ere[ trimmed, in orde=;r to speed up the fil]'+m. However, mor'
e exciting was the discovery that the(( A#us?, *trian v$)ers#<:%ion co-ntains sho^,ts th[++at ar`!e mi ssing in the Americ'
an one` - s`hots"-counte*=rshot'-s, intertitles - and furth=ermo$/re shows differences in its mo]"$^ntage (i.#!!e`.#] the%+ placing of !+the indi _`[vidual sh=;
>ots within %\a sequenc@!&:e). All th^is indi+c/#"+ates \` th[[at Di!e Rache der >^Be,rge constitut-es the oldest and most=&> 
completely pre\s=erv$=ed material of the film.