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Dir: Jacques Jaccard

A 20 part 2-reel Western film serial.

Dir: Jacques Jaccard

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

A daredevil flyer delivers the night mail despite threats from weather and robbers.

Dir: Jacques Jaccard

Gold miner Jim Golden is in love with Miss Dot, the local postmistress, but he has a reputation for being somewhat lazy and shiftless. One day he finds a baby that had been abandoned by local Indians, adopts it, and begins to work his claim again. Parky, a local thief and swindler, finds out that Jim has finally struck gold, and schemes to trick Jim out of his claim and kidnap Miss Dot while he's at it.

Dir: Jacques Jaccard

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of 'If Only' Jim perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

This opens with election day scenes at Sunset City and goes on to picture the exciting manner in which Eddie helps to clean up a nest of bandits.

Dir: Jacques Jaccard

Irresponsible Billy Thorpe is sent to South America by his fiancée Claire's father, "rubber king" George Vincent, to reform. Upon arriving, Billy goes to work for the plantation foreman, Vincent's son-in-law James Ellison, who is having an affair with native girl Koree. When the Vincent yacht unexpectedly arrives, bringing Vincent, Claire, and Ellison's wife Mary, Billy induces Ellison to behave respectably, and the two go on board. That evening, Koree swims to the yacht, and Ellison allows the party to suspect that she is Billy's sweetheart. Billy keeps silent for Mary's sake, but after a fight with Santos Cordero, Koree's former lover, he becomes so disgusted with Ellison's treachery and the others' suspicions that he swims ashore, wounded, and is nursed by Koree. Claire follows and, after learning the truth from Koree, is reconciled with Billy while Ellison is sent home to rehabilitate himself.

Dir: Jacques Jaccard

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

Eileen is kidnapped.

Dir: Jacques Jaccard

Sheriff Buck Marston, Sr. and his wife are killed after he defies the bandit known as the Wolf. Years later, Marston's son Buck, reared by kind rancher Jack Remington, steps into his father's shoes and becomes sheriff, vowing vengeance for the death of his family. Eventually only the Wolf and his son remain, and although Buck finally succeeds in capturing the Wolf, the Whelp comes to his father's rescue and frees him. Meanwhile, when Remington overhears his younger daughter Dolly confide in her sister Barbara, Buck's fiancée, that she has been having an affair with the Whelp, Remington misunderstands and, assuming that Barbara has been betrayed, insists that she marry the outlaw. Returning from his pursuit of the Wolf, Buck learns of Barbara's fate and speeds to the Wolf's den where the Whelp has taken his bride. Buck saves Barbara, kills the outlaws. and succeeds in winning both revenge and his sweetheart.

Dir: Jacques Jaccard

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

Dynamite Steve Dorsey of the Texas Rangers finds his pal Val Nelson murdered by a member of Sheriff Pat Garrity's gang and vows vengeance. At the ranch of Col. Lee Calhoun, Steve relates the news to Anita, his sweetheart. Garrity, who covets Anita and has plotted to steal the colonel's payment of the mortgage on his ranch, arrives to foreclose but finds Steve there. Steve is captured by Garrity's men and jailed, but he manages to notify the Rangers, and Captain Hughes arrives at the town just in time to rout Garrity's gunmen and prevent Steve's death. Steve obtains evidence on which to convict the sheriff of Val's murder, and following the showdown Anita admits her love for Steve.

Dir: Jacques Jaccard

Tempest is the chief peace officer of a wild western town.

Dir: Jacques Jaccard

Serial about Japanese spies trying to invade the US but whose plans are foiled by a rich heiress and a Secret Service agent.