By all accounts, Von Stroheim's plan was to split the film into two parts, not to be taken in all at once.

If I had my "one pick," it would be WANDERERS OF THE WASTELAND (1923) — Irvin Willat's western epic, shot entirely in Technicolor and based on a story by Zane Grey. Willat apparently had the last known print, which unfortunately decomposed. Bob Birchard said that when he interviewed Willat's daughter, she mentioned that she remembered the day when he had first discovered that WANDERERS had decomposed. She said he went upstairs to his bedroom, closed the door and cried for three hours.