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Auction History Result 5s0239 MASTER MYSTERY chapter 9 LC 1919 Houdini's 1st movie, 1st robot ever & it's shown, ultra rare! Date Sold 9/6/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Chapter #9 (The Madagascan Madness) Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) The Master Mystery, the 1919 Harry Grossman & Burton L. King silent mystery magic crime serial ("A super-serial"; "By Arthur B. Reeve and Charles A. Logue"; Houdini is an agent of the Justice Department, sent to investigate a bogus giant company, which is well guarded, especially with the help of a robot, in the movie called "The Automaton", which was the very first robot ever to appear in any movie!) starring Harry Houdini, Marguerite Marsh, Ruth Stonehouse, Edna Britton, and William Pike. Note that this serial movie was Houdini's first appearance in a movie, and the producers knew what his fans wanted, and almost every chapter ended with Houdini captured, and the next one began with him making an amazing escape. Note that for years it was thought that 13 of the 15 chapters of this movie survived. But it now seems that all of the chapters exist, although they are not all in one place (at the last time that I read). Two different archives have multiple chapters, and between them, they seem to have them all. The great magician Harry Houdini only appeared in this movie and four others, and none of those were serials. Movie paper of any kind from any of those five movies is incredibly rare! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have auctioned a number of one-sheets from this, Harry Houdini's only serial, because they came from a great Houdini collection, but we have never before auctioned even a single lobby card, and while this one does not show Houdini, it does show the automaton full-length! Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. Condition: good to very good. There is drawing on the chest of the woman. It is very intricate and looks like it was done to "censor" her image, but we don't know if it was done by the studio, a theater employee, or someone who simply owned the card. So it is hard to know how to detract for that, as far as the condition goes. Otherwise, there is a tiny pair of staple holes in the center of the top blank border. There is very slight darkening in the outer edges of small parts of two borders. Someone put a tiny piece of tape on the back of the bottom right corner, where there was a tiny tear. The card is otherwise in really nice condition, and we leave it to the bidders to judge how the drawing on the woman's shirt affects the condition of the card. Learn More about condition grades 
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