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Dir: Henry MacRae

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Henry MacRae

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

A group steals a death ray in order to terrorise the world into peace. The inventor and his daughter try to retrieve the death ray with the aid of a government agent.

Dir: Henry MacRae

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Henry MacRae

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

Gideon Trask and his henchmen at the saloon in Arkansas City covet the mineral survey of the Louisiana Territory made for Napoleon before the sale of the Territory to the United States. This is in possession of the Heath Brothers, who seek to use it in staking their land when the Oklahoma territory, last of the Louisiana tract to be released by the Government, is opened to Homesteaders.

Dir: Henry MacRae

During the great drought on the South African veldt, bitterness erupts between the von Haagen and Townsend families when they quarrel over a cattle spring. Nevertheless, a romance grows between Gretel von Haagan and Ned Townsend, who, to escape their families' opposition, marry and leave for the interior. Three years later, Gretel's father Carl, unable to overcome his feelings of remorse, seeks his daughter out and discovers that he is now a grandfather. He arrives in the interior just as his grandson wanders off into the jungle. After several harrowing incidents, the infant is rescued by an elephant and returned to his home where the families are joyously reconciled.

Dir: Henry MacRae

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

A young Scottish immigrant to Canada becomes a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He finds himself framed on a forgery charge, but before he can clear himself he must capture a gang of train robbers and stop a band of marauding Indians.

Dir: Henry MacRae

Heads of rival lumber camps meet in a fight. Louis Lenoir, a renegade French Canadian, causes the death of "Big" MacDonald, a hard-fighting Scotsman whose life is guided by his dogmatic religious beliefs. His son, Ranald, is left to settle the blood feud. In spite of the pleas of his sweetheart, the daughter of a minister, he participates in a gang fight on the logs in mid-river just as a log drive to Ottawa begins. Attempting to stop the fight, the girl becomes involved, falls into danger, and is carried toward a whirlpool; but MacDonald, having abandoned his attack on Lenoir, rescues her. At the finish Lenoir, grateful because his life has been spared, experiences a reformation.

Dir: Henry MacRae

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

A young woman named Suwanna is the object of affection for many men. In her search for true love, she has many adventures and mishaps, including overcoming her father's disapproval, before finally finding her soul-mate. Miss Suwanna of Siam, or Nang Sao Suwan, was one of first feature films to be made in Thailand, and was the first Hollywood co-production in Thailand.

Dir: Henry MacRae

A soldier returns home from World War I with a beautiful black horse that he saved on the battlefield, and names Thunderhoof. He enters the horse in a local race, hoping to earn enough money to save the family ranch of the girl he loves. However, the crooks intent on taking the ranch manage to capture a notorious wild horse and enter it in the same race, believing that it can beat Thunderhoof and thereby ensure that they're able to take the ranch.

Dir: Henry MacRae

A white fur-trapper, Harvey Ogden (Frank Mayo) takes an Indian maiden, A-Che-Chee (Claire McDowell), as his bride, a union that meets with much disapproval when they return to civilization. But their child, a boy (Frankie Lee) helps bring about many adjustments to the attitudes of the civilized people.