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Auction History Result 5m354 DIAMOND FROM THE SKY chapter 3 herald 1915 William Russell, 15 hour serial, Silent Witness! Date Sold 4/8/2018![]() Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Chapter #3 (The Silent Witness) Movie Herald (measures 8 1/2" x 9 1/2" [22 x 24 cm]; 4 pages) (Learn More) 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. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that the distributor made a single 4-page herald for each of the 30 chapters (we know this because we once auctioned a wonderful set of all 30 heralds together!). Offered here is the 4-page herald for chapter 3 (we are also auctioning heralds for chapter 17 and 5 in separate auctions). Condition: fair to good. There is paper loss in the left of the top and staining in the top left corner (see our images). Learn More about condition grades ![]()
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