The Definitive Guide Deeply Connected to Angel Child: Cult Guide

Dir: Henry Otto

After her mother dies, a young girl is sent with her little sister to live with their aunt and uncle, who treat her terribly. The aunt and uncle run a show at the Panama exposition and turn her into a human butterfly.

Dir: Henry Otto

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Temple of Venus perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Venus sends Cupid to earth to find if romance still exists there. He finds Moira and Peggy, a fisherman's daughters, who become entangled in the amorous pursuits of an artist and a fisherman. Cupid returns to Venus with his report.

Dir: Henry Otto

Bess Belwyn, daughter of a criminal who reforms in prison, becomes engaged to District Attorney John Mobley. To save her father from being denounced by his erstwhile accomplice, Bess, unaware of the consequences, becomes involved in a jewelry theft. She then tries in vain to confess and break the engagement. After she marries Mobley, the crook attempts to blackmail Bess, but she confesses everything to Mobley and in the subsequent fracas the crook is killed.

Dir: Henry Otto

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Lovebound perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

In the sordid shirt factory in which she works, Sadie Hicks dreams of the great outdoors. Surrounded by men of puny minds and flabby bodies, her fancy goes out to great manhood that is strong of mind and muscle. Translated in the language of the shirt factory life she knows best, she finds that she admires a man with a 44 chest. She sees a shipment of 44s all ready to be sent to Arizona, and she writes a little note and tucks it into one of the shirts. On account of a rush order, the box is sent to Canada and the shirt with Sadie's note reaches John Stoddard, a wealthy civil engineer, who prefers the life of the woods to the polite society enjoyed by his family and friends. Good-naturedly, he answers Sadie's note, telling her to let him know if he can help her at any time. Sadie receives the letter on the same day she is discharged from the factory for repulsing the advances of Ferguson, the foreman. She at once telegraphs Stoddard that she is on the way, and takes the next train for his Canadian Camp. He receives the message too late to wire her not to come. Stoddard goes to the station to meet her, intending to put her on a southbound train immediately, but he misses her, as she has left the train at a station nearer his camp than the post-office station. Stoddard finds her, and they start in a canoe for an island hotel where he expects to place her until he can send her away again. But a storm comes up, the canoe is swamped and Stoddard and Sadie are obliged to swim to the nearest stretch of shore. It is a small deserted island, and the two have to spend a day and a night there. The noblest qualities of both are shown, and they fall in love with each other. They construct a raft on which they embark, but it has been flimsily put together on account of lack of materials, and Sadie and Stoddard are capsized again. This time they are rescued by Stoddard's Indian guide, Eagle Eye, who takes them to the camp. They find Larry Livingston at the camp. He is the brother of Estelle Livingston, the society girl whom Mrs. Stoddard wishes her son to marry. He tells them that Mrs. Stoddard and Estelle, who are stopping at the hotel, will be at the camp presently. Sadie feels diffident about meeting these fashionable women, and hides in the woods. Here Larry Livingston finds her. He tells her that if she really loves John Stoddard, it is her duty to give him up to a woman of his own station in life, that it would be only degradation for him to marry beneath him. Sadie persuades Eagle Eye to show her the way to the railroad station. Leaving a note of farewell for Stoddard, she goes to the city and finds work in a restaurant, studying hard in her leisure hours to make herself worthy of the man she loves, and capable of meeting his mother. Stoddard is tireless in his search for her, and at last discovers her. He convinces her that Larry was mistaken, and the two clasp hands in mutual understanding.

Dir: Henry Otto

In the South Seas lives Lorelei, who decides to act out her fantasies and poses on the rocks as she sings. From his yacht, Dorian, hears Lorelei's song and goes to investigate. His boat is destroyed on the rocks, and Lorelei cares for him.

Dir: Henry Otto

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Mister 44 perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

British aristocrat Iris must choose between the poor Laurence and the rich Frederick. She decides to go for the money and agrees to marry Frederick, but at the last minute she changes her mind and runs off to Italy with Laurence. However, things don't work out quite the way she planned.

Dir: Henry Otto

A Japanese girl falls in love with an Englishman who soon afterward departs for the war against Germany in Europe. She endures for four years, awaiting his return.

Dir: Henry Otto

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Lorelei of the Sea perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

King Rudolph of Rugaria sends his son, Prince Boris, to America to marry into wealth so that the country can recover from its financial difficulties. Rich Mrs. Hanway, eager to have her daughter Althea become a princess, takes her with Boris to Rugaria. Meanwhile, Rupert Danza, a Columbia University student, is told by a mysterious envoy that he is needed in Rugaria to lead a revolution. Although he laughs at first, he follows, when he learns that his sweetheart Althea has gone there. While Rupert's knowledge of democracy inspires the revolutionaries, his sword play enables him to rescue Althea from Boris. After an anarchist wounds the king, Rupert is arrested, but as a firing squad prepares to execute him, Countess Olga reveals that he is really the king's son who was kidnapped as a child and sent to America to absorb democracy for the coming revolution. After Rudolph dies, Rupert declines the crown, but is elected president of the newly-created republic. Althea then becomes his First Lady.

Dir: Henry Otto

Jack and Blanny Wheeler live in the apartment above Laura and Billy Bartlett. Jack likes to stay out late and play poker, but covers by telling his wife that he attends meetings of the Mystic Shrine society. Laura is carrying on a dalliance with Philip Evans. One night Jack goes to play poker and leaves Blanny with the Bartletts. Laura goes out with Philip. Blanny and Billy commiserate about their loneliness, and concoct a scheme to arouse their spouses' jealousies. They taste various liquors, become intoxicated, and fall asleep. Jack, Laura, and Philip return. Jack and Laura both threaten divorce until the explanations are made, and the couples are reunited.

Dir: Henry Otto

Young bride Patricia Morley's flirtatious ways at a summer resort keep her husband Henry in a state of continual anxiety. At an old-fashioned barn dance, Patricia enacts the role of a chicken breaking out of an egg, and Henry's wrath explodes. After accusing her of being in love with another man, Henry returns to New York and files for divorce. Heartbroken, Patricia sends her friend Victoria French to tell Henry that she is dying. Meanwhile, Patricia goes to a hospital and alarms the staff with her hysterical conduct. Later the nurse discovers that Patricia is bluffing. Henry arrives at the hospital just in time to see Patricia pretending to be nurse to his divorce lawyer, Geoffrey Patten, whose leg is broken. Henry's anger explodes again, but he makes up with Patricia and they go home together. Henry hires the hospital nurse as a detective, causing more complications, but Henry finally is cured of his jealousy.