five years. It was not until the late 1960s that Ayn Rand  was able to locate the original nitrate negatives, still in good  condition in the vault in Rome. Both films were restored, combined  into one, and released (with English subtitles) in 1986 as  _We the Living (1986)_ (qv) at the Telluride Film festival in  Colorado where it received rave reviews, over forty years after its  original release.