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The Master Mystery - Episode Eight
A serial built around an automaton, and a star who insisted on doing the escaping himself.
What
A 1919 poster for the eighth episode of the fifteen-chapter serial The Master Mystery.
Why
The serial is generally credited with putting one of the earliest screen robots on film - a walking automaton - years before the metal figures of the German studios. It survives, unusually for a serial of its date, in near-complete form.
Notice
The episode number given its own display block, so a theatre could show returning patrons exactly where the story stood.
“Escape, sold fifteen weeks running.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 24x36" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- The Master Mystery (1919)
- Country / studio
- United States · Octagon Films
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- U.S. serial episode poster, 1919
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18. Star-portrait piece: sold as the artifact, the film named, the star incidental.
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