MOVIES - June 3, 1987

The only known copy of a 1916 silent film made by Mauritz Stiller, the Swedish director who brought Greta Garbo to Hollywood, has been found in cardboard boxes in Oslo, Norway, destined for a flea market. Norwegian film archivist Arne Pedersen said Tuesday that a retired film technician found the film--a love story called “Wings”--in boxes a friend had asked him to cart off to a local flea market. “He’d spent 50 years in films, so he knew what the find was worth,” said Pedersen. “It’s scratched, but we’ve sent it to a restorer in Stockholm and it should be all right.” The original print was lost in a 1941 fire in Sweden and the only two other copies have been lost, Pedersen said.