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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 serial was a massive 15 hours (see above) and this 8x10 lobby card is from the final chapter, and it is the ONLY movie paper item we have ever seen from this historic serial! Also note that, in the early days of movie making, when lobby cards were first made (around 1915), studios would issue sets of the cards in two sizes; the regular 11" x 14" size, and a smaller 8" x 10" size. The cards were identical in every way except for the different size. This practice continued through the early 1920s, at which point the studios abandoned the smaller lobby cards, likely because theaters either ordered 11" x 14" lobby cards or 8" x 10" stills, and did not order enough of the 8" x 10" lobby cards to justify them continuing to make them.

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