The Auteur's Selection In the Shadow of The Face in the Watch: Cult...

Dir: Edward A. Kull

Doris Harvey is just returning to her New York home from a fashionable girls' school, when she learns of her father's financial ruin. John Harvey, a diamond importer, operating individually, has been crushed by a powerful diamond syndicate. He cannot stand the thought of failure and rushes home to kill himself. Doris, after a wild dash in an automobile, assisted by a young man named Bruce Weston, reaches her father's side just after the fatal shot was fired. Bruce Weston is a member of the diamond syndicate, but was not a party to the ruin of Harvey. He falls in love with Doris and assists her in fighting the gang sent by the syndicate to obtain incriminating papers left by her father. The trend of events takes all of the principal characters to the diamond mines of Africa. Doris is captured by natives in the jungle and set up as their ruler.

Dir: Edward A. Kull

Mary Rebecca is induced by the captain of the Lancashire Queen to go aboard on the ruse that there is a sick man who needs attention. By this plan it is hoped Le Grant of the Fish Patrol will follow to save her and they will shanghai him.

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

Dir: Edward A. Kull

A girl thinks the individual known as the "Lone Rider" is her father and then later imagines it is her admirer, but both men prove innocent. She wins a reward by turning up the real bandit.

Dir: Edward A. Kull

Counterfeiters manage to throw suspicion temporarily on the hero, but he is cleared in the end.

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

Dir: Edward A. Kull

The hero assumes the blame for a murder in order to shield a woman's name. The woman's son grows up and seeks revenge upon the hero, but the mother finally speaks.

Dir: Edward A. Kull

Tarzan, who has returned to Africa after living in England, sets off to Guatemala in search of an old friend who may have survived a plane crash there. Ula Vale and Major Martling are out to find the riches of the Green Goddess.

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

Dir: Edward A. Kull

A girl's father is a geologist, and soon after he strikes gold they are attacked by bandits. To complicate matters one of the bandits turns out to be the girl's brother

Dir: Edward A. Kull

The first of a series of eight two-reelers that present a vivid cross section of the drama of life among the white and yellow men who vie for fish and fortune in San Francisco Bay.

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

Dir: Edward A. Kull

The Chinaman, Yellow Handkerchief, seeks to make peace with Big Aleck so they may take advantage of the run of salmon on Sunday, a day on which fish might not be legally netted. Le Grant of the Fish Patrol hears of the plot and manages to catch the poachers with their own nets.

Dir: Edward A. Kull

Mary Murphy, the eldest waif in an orphanage, steals a dress and $3, then escapes to the city. Grosset, the superintendent of the institution, steals $10,000 on the same night, and Mary is suspected of the theft. Mary manages to get a job as assistant to entomologist William Saxton, after she changes her appearance because the Professor dislikes pretty and fashionably dressed young ladies, but his nephew David sees her true beauty and falls in love with her. Grosset arrives at the Professor's house and threatens to expose Mary. Mary discovers Grosset robbing the safe, but he places the blame on her. Saxton was actually hiding behind the curtain the whole time and heard the truth. Grosset is arrested, and Mary weds David.