Serial nitrate fragment from 1918? frame closeups.

[Darren Nemeth]

I have a short 20 to 30 second nitrate fragment that came to me from the UK.

Kodak date code is 1918.

Do any of the actors or the scene look familiar to anyone? I am presuming this is a serial but am probably wrong.

The man to the right looks very familiar but I can't place a name on him.

[Darren Nemeth]

Something just jarred my memory. Would the man on the right be Wilfred Lucas, Laurel & Hardy's warden in PARDON US?

[Richard M Roberts]

[quote="Darren Nemeth"]I have a short 20 to 30 second nitrate fragment that came to me from the UK.

Kodak date code is 1918.

Do any of the actors or the scene look familiar to anyone? I am presuming this is a serial but am probably wrong.

The man to the right looks very familiar but I can't place a name on him.

James Morrison, Leah Baird, and Wilfred Lucas. It's SINS OF AMBITION (Ivan Film Productions released December 19, 1917) Baird plays a wife tired of being neglected by her husband who's obsessed with perfecting a Universal Language and decides to become an actress.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

[Darren Nemeth]

James Morrison, Leah Baird, and Wilfred Lucas. It's SINS OF AMBITION (Ivan Film Productions released December 19, 1917) Baird plays a wife tired of being neglected by her husband who's obsessed with perfecting a Universal Language and decides to become an actress.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

You're up after 3:00 in the morn too?

Thanks for the title! Do you know if this film survives?

[Richard M Roberts]

I have a short 20 to 30 second nitrate fragment that came to me from the UK.

Kodak date code is 1918.

Do any of the actors or the scene look familiar to anyone? I am presuming this is a serial but am probably wrong.

The man to the right looks very familiar but I can't place a name on him.

James Morrison, Leah Baird, and Wilfred Lucas. It's SINS OF AMBITION (Ivan Film Productions released December 19, 1917) Baird plays a wife tired of being neglected by her husband who's obsessed with perfecting a Universal Language and decides to become an actress.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

You're up after 3:00 in the morn too?

Thanks for the title. Does this film survive?

It's only after midnight on the West Coast.We just wrapped our movie night.

The film does not survive as far as I know, but it was a states-righted picture, so there's a better chance that it might be out there somewhere.

Oh, and for the anal-retentives out there, the film was released November 21, 1917 and copywritten Dec 19, 1917.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

[Mike Gebert]

Wow, good eye ID'ing the youngish Wilfred Lucas. I'm impressed.

[Silencebound]

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