Chokin no Susume

Collection of series and films that are actually lost, meaning that there is no known copy or footage available anywhere anymore.

As opposed to lists like this list https://myanimelist.net/stacks/29546 which include series where the footage or copies of the footage are known to exist but they just are not publicly available are not included here.

Actually Lost: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47057
Actually Lost 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47061

Partly Lost: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47060

Not Available on the internet: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/29546
Not Available on the internet 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47062

1910's anime:
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/70994

This list (and others in the future) is meant to be catalogue of the anime that have released in a particular year.

(Also, if I don't have a star with a number for the anime, it means that I couldn't find it).

To sum up 1917 in anime, it was the first year for anime (as documented on MAL), but it is hard to fully talk about the year as most of the anime around that time are lost media. The only anime that isn't lost media from that year was Nakamura Gatana, and judging from it's quality, it seemed that anime had a long way to go to become what it is today.