How did D.W. Griffith re-release parts of Intolerance after withdrawing the original film?

To reduce financial losses after the disappointing reception of his 1916 epic Intolerance, D.W. Griffith withdrew the film from distribution after 22 weeks.12

In an effort to recoup his investment, he physically cut into the original negative of the film. In 1919, he re-released the modern and Babylonian segments as two distinct feature-length films: The Mother and the Law and The Fall of Babylon. Because of this re-editing process, no complete version of the original 1916 presentation survives today.13