Dr Criddle wrote:
I myself am kind of curious as to what the original PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC would have looked like, because apparently Carl Dreyer pieced the one we know together from outtakes after the original was destroyed by a spiteful editor.

The original negative was destroyed in a fire, and apparently the same fate later befell the negative that Dreyer pieced together from outtakes to replace the original.  However, a complete original Danish print of JOAN was found in a closet of a Norwegian insane asylum in 1981 (I kid you not!), and the film was restored in 1985, so the one we now know is most likely the way it was originally intended by Dreyer.  The Criterion DVD is very nice.