Arbuckle's films share the common fate of silent movies. Of the hundreds of features and shorts in which he appeared between 1909 and 1933, only about half are known to have survived, and many exist only in fragmentary form.
The films of Arbuckle, like those of other silent movie stars, face a common fate: few survive. Of the hundreds of features and shorts he appeared in between 1909 and 1933, roughly half have been preserved, with many only existing in fragments.