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The Diamond from the Sky, the 1915 Jacques Jaccard & William Desmond Taylor silent adventure serial ("A picturized romantic novel by Roy L. McCardell"; "Read the story in the newspapers see it in moving pictures here"; about a noble English family that finds an insanely massive diamond that has fallen from the sky, and it ensures the future wealth of the family, but they don't have a male heir, and when they finally have a child, it is a daughter, and in desperation, they buy a boy from a gypsy, but when they are baptizing the boy, the gypsy mother bursts in and demands him back, and this is only the start of this 15 hour serial!) starring Lottie Pickford (sister of Mary Pickford), Irving Cummings, William Russell, Eugenie Forde, George Periolat, and Charlotte Burton. This is probably the most fascinating "forgotten" movie ever made! It was a massive 30 chapter serial, with each chapter being a full half-hour long, so the entire serial was 15 hours! It had a great plot, with many suspenseful subplots throughout, but the producers intentionally left the film hanging at the end of the 15 hours, because throughout the showing of the movie's many chapters, they advertised that they would give a prize of $10,000 ("$10,000 for a suggestion!") to the person who could give them the resolution to the movie, which they then promised to film! After the 30th chapter was shown, they announced that Terry Ramsaye (who later would become a major film journalist, and author of many books) had won the prize, which seems a touch suspicious, since Ramsaye in fact worked for the film's producers, Mutual Film (and of course, $10,000 was a staggering amount of money in 1915, and it seems unlikely that amount of money ever changed hands)! They then filmed a 4-part serial with the imaginative title of "Sequel to the Diamond from the Sky", and that was shown in 1916. Apparently, this movie was incredibly popular (no doubt in great part to the $10,000 reward that was offered) and grossed a lot of money, but sadly, the entire film is lost (meaning no examples exist), and only major film buffs remember this movie.
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Important Added Info: Note that this is a really wonderful special promotion from this historically important serial. It contains 30 4-page heralds that measures 4 1/2" x 9 1/2" per page, and they are all collated so that they form a 120-page booklet (although they could also be separated into 30 separate 4-page heralds, one for each chapter). Each one has a great cover image on the front and a 2-page center that gives a synopsis of the current chapter, plus a synopsis of the previous chapters, with illustrations around the edges. Each has the exact same back page telling about the $10,000 prize offer! We have never seen this item before (although we have auctioned individual heralds), and any item from this movie is very scarce. Note: We have 60 images of the heralds in this set, but due to a space limitation, only TEN of the 60 images are displayed above. However, there is a "supersize" link to the right of those images that lets you see the other 50.

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