The National Center for Film and Video Preservation was established in 1984 by the American Film Institute and the National Endowment for the Arts to^[1]

• coordinate American moving image preservation activities on a national scale serving as Secretariat for the Association of Moving Image Archivists and The Film Foundation.
• implement the National Moving Image Database.
• research and publish the AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
• locate and acquire films and television programs for inclusion in the AFI Collection to be preserved at the Library of Congress and other archives.
• establish ongoing relationships between the public archives and the film and television industry.
• create broader public awareness of preservation needs.

The center has a list of wanted films believed to be lost. Some of the films on that list are^[2]

• Cleopatra (1917)
• The Divine Woman (1928)
• Camille (1927)