If you read the article, you would have read: “The footage, which has been made available to scholars, was screened last August for The New Republic journalist

If you read the article, you would have read: “The footage, which has been made available to scholars, was screened last August for The New Republic journalist Benjamin Charles Germain Lee, who reported that the footage was fragmentary and does not constitute a complete film, leading the industry to conclude that the full film did not exist.”