The Recommended Vault Deeply Connected to Diplomacy: Cult Guide

Dir: Sidney Olcott

When a young man courteously scratches the back of a young woman at the opera, she sees in him the chivalric sort who might be able to aid her in a problem which threatens her marriage.

Dir: Sidney Olcott

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

Three British subjects arrive in the land of the Rajah of Rukh during the time of the British Raj.

Dir: Sidney Olcott

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Sidney Olcott

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

A traveling theatrical troupe is stranded in a small town, and the leading ingenue, Polly, returns to her New York City hometown broke. She and her friend Bunny, desperate for a job, convince the Hawkers, a "nouveau riche" family from Kansas, that they are French and an experienced maid-and-butler team. Young Zeke Hawker is smitten with Polly, but Polly is attracted to their neighbor, a famous actor named MacGillicuddy. One night at a swanky party given by Mrs. Hawker, her jewels wind up stolen, and Polly is suspected of it. Complications ensue until Polly discovers who the real thieves are.

Dir: Sidney Olcott

An account of the life of Jesus Christ according to the New Testament, told as a series of tableaus interspersed with Bible verses.

Dir: Sidney Olcott

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

'Poleon and his daughter Oachi live a quiet existence in the North Woods, as do their neighbors, André and Marie Beauvais. Doré, a villainous whiskey runner fleeing from the Northwest Mounted Police, is hospitably welcomed by 'Poleon; but when he forces his attentions on Oachi, her father drives him away. Terror-stricken by the loss of his rattlesnake idol, and thus deprived of communion with the evil spirits, he is welcomed at André and Marie's cabin but is likewise thrashed soundly and sent on his way. Doré returns when Marie is ill, in André's absence, and kidnaps her during a storm; she escapes and leaps over an embankment, there to be found unconscious by Oachi the next day. Doré, driven mad with fear, returns to their home wounded, and a vision of Marie brings his death.

Dir: Sidney Olcott

Financial troubles force Nell Carroll, a thoroughbred, to seek employment in a detective agency which has just taken up the trail of a very baffling jewelry robbery in an exclusive summer colony. In order to work from the inside, she is sent to the place as the Baroness Du Vassey. Suspicion promptly fastens upon Teddy De Veaux, the son of the woman who first invites Nell to her home. Every evidence points to him until the leader of the crooks, suspecting the real identity of the "baroness." decides to present himself as the Baron Du Vassey, her husband. The arrival of the "baron" causes consternation in the heart of Nell, who does not know whether she is facing an impostor or has chanced upon the name of a real nobleman. Trusting to chance to give her some hint as to the truth, she decides to face the man and attempt to outwit him. But more than wits are necessary to defeat the crook, with whom the butler is allied. It comes to a question of a steady hand and quick trigger finger when the thieves are caught red-handed and spring upon the innocent young Teddy.

Dir: Sidney Olcott

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of From the Manger to the Cross perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

The story of a Japanese woman and the tragedy that ensues when she loves an American naval officer.

Dir: Sidney Olcott

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Sidney Olcott

Young Victor Morenne is a fisherman in a small Belgian village during World War II, and he has a talent for sculpture. When he's encouraged by a French art connoisseur to leave Belgium for Paris to develop his skills as a sculptor, he takes the man's advice, but before he leaves he tells his sweetheart, Jeanne, that he will return to her. However, while in Paris he falls for the sophisticated Countess de Vries, who is actually a German spy. Complications ensue.