Editing The Big Parade (section)

==Legacy==
''The Big Parade'' survives in a print of the 1930 sound version. The original silent version is now lost. In 1992, ''The Big Parade'' was selected for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]] as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Although the surviving print had the original 1930 soundtrack consisting of [[William Axt]]'s musical score, the version released to the public had the score replaced with a modern one. Composer [[Carl Davis]] created a new orchestral score for the film in the 1980s (quoting the theme associated with Melisande in Axt's original setting), and it was added to the film and released on video in the late 1980s as part of the MGM and British television [[Thames Silents]] project.  The original 1930 35mm negative was subsequently discovered intact, and has been the source for theatrical showings and the DVD and Blu-ray editions (Blu-ray was released October 1, 2013). In spite of the fact that William Axt's synchronzied score survives the film was again released with a modern score that bears no resemblance to the original score.

The 2013 DVD and Blu-ray [[Warner Home Video]] release of ''The Big Parade'' features the most complete TCM print of running time 151 minutes. It also contains an audio commentary track by film historian [[Jeffrey Vance]] (with excerpts from King Vidor's oral history with the [[Directors Guild of America]]). In February 2020, the film was shown at the [[70th Berlin International Film Festival]], as part of a retrospective dedicated to King Vidor's career.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.berlinale.de/en/press/press-releases/detail_8008.html |title=Berlinale 2020: Retrospective "King Vidor" |work=Berlinale |access-date=February 28, 2020}}</ref>