Watch: The chaucer’s (anti-)eroticisms and the queer middle ages by tison pughGreat Gatsby, 1926

While Baz Luhrmann’s Great Gatsbytrailer is on everyone’s lips, it’s far from the first time F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel has been captured on celluloid. Everyone remembers the 1974 Robert Redford vehicle, but there was also the 1949 adaptation and, before that, a silent 1926 version scripted by Fitzgerald himself. All that survives—to anyone’s knowledge—is the footage that follows.