- Title: VM-211
- Summary: THE POWER GOD (CHAPTER 3): WITH BEN WILSON, NEVA GERBER, RUTH ROYCE, ALLAN GARCIA, CATHERINE KENT. PROFESSOR STURGESS INVENTS A MIRACULOUS ENGINE WHICH CAN DRAW UNLIMITED POWER FROM THE ATOMS OF THE AIR. WHEN THE PROFESSOR IS KILLED, HIS DAUGHTER & HER FIANCE MUST FIGHT TO KEEP THE SECRET OF THE POWER ENGINE OUT OF THE HANDS OF EVIL WESTON DORE AND HIS HENCHMEN
- Description:01:21:48 - EARLY 1900s CAR ON DIRT ROAD IN HILLY DESERTED LANDSCAPE. COMES TO STOP IN FRONT OF VIEWER 01:22:04 - MAN DRESSED IN EARLY 1920s SUIT GETS OUT OF CAR, LOOKS DIRECTLY AT VIEWER 01:22:09 - SPEEDING CAR DRIVES DOWN DIRT ROAD AWAY 01:22:18 - FEMALE DRIVER LOOKS OUT WINDOW OF CAR WHILE DRIVING 01:22:20 - MAN IN SUIT SPOTS HER & FOLLOWS HER 01:22:35 - DOCTORS HOME: WEDDING MARRIAGE CEREMONY. MAN PRACTICES PUTTING ON RING. TAKES OFF RING FROM WOMAN'S LEFT HAND 01:22:50 - DAZED LOOKING FLAPPER WOMAN-BRIDE LOOKS AT JUSTICE OF PEACE. MAN TAKES OUT RING, PUTS IT ON BIBLE. 01:23:08 - CU GROOM & SINISTER-LOOKING MAN 01:23:10 - CAR FOLLOWING ANOTHER IN MOUNTAINOUS LANDSCAPE. CAR CHASE SCENE 01:23:16 - MOTORCYCLE POLICEMEN ON DIRT ROAD. 01:23:18 - JUSTICE OF THE PEACE MARRYING COUPLE IN CIVIL WEDDING CEREMONY. TIFFANY LAMP, VICTORIAN DECOR 01:23:25 - CAR FOLLOWING ANOTHER DOWN SIDE OF MOUNTAIN DIRT ROAD. POLICE ON MOTORCYCLES IN HOT PURSUIT. CAR CHASE 01:23:44 - ZOMBIE-LIKE WOMAN IS TOLD SHE'S NOW MARRIED. LOOK OF CONFUSION ON HER FACE. FEMALE NOT UNDERSTANDING WHAT'S BEEN TOLD TO HER. IN DAZE 01:23:55 - FEMALE DRIVER LOOKS OUT WINDOW AS SHE DRIVES 01:23:57 - POLICE ON MOTORCYCLES. 1920 DIRT ROAD 01:23:59 - "ROAD CLOSED" SIGNS CLOSING OFF ROAD 01:24:04 - CAR GOES THROUGH FORK IN ROAD 01:24:09 - CONFUSION AT FORK IN ROAD, CAR VEERS TO MISS ONCOMING TRUCK. CRASHES THROUGH "ROAD CLOSED" SIGN. MAN FALLS OUT OF CAR. CAR ROLLS DOWN HILL & FLIPS. 01:24:16 - BACK AT FORK, POLICE ON BIKES. TRUCK STOPPED. 01:24:20 - MOTORCYCLE POLICEMAN STOPS AT MAN WHO FELL OUT OF CAR COP HELPS MAN UP. BRUSHES OFF DIRT ON JACKET 01:24:34 - COPS GRAB DANGEROUS DRIVER. ARGUMENT ENSUES. COP PUSHES MAN. HE LOOKS ANGRY BUT HOLDS BACK 01:25:09 - DRIVER OF THE TRUCK IS ANGRY. THEY LET WRECKLESS DRIVER GO 01:25:18 - TRUCK DRIVER & COPS FIGHT. COPS WRITE OUT TICKET 01:25:37 - IN DARK GLOOMY HOUSE TWO MEN TALK. PACE AS IF WAITING FOR SOMEONE 01:26:01 - WOMAN WALKS IN WITH COUPLE MARRIED IN CIVIL CEREMONY. THE MEN RUSH TO THEM 01:26:16 - GROOM LOOKS ANGRILY AT OTHER MAN. WOMAN LOOKS CONFUSED. 01:26:34 - MAN WEARING SINISTER GRIN 01:26:40 - MAN CLOSES EYES AS IF REMEMBERING SOMETHING 01:26:45 - MAN KISSES WOMAN'S HAND 01:26:52 - MAN WITH EYES CLOSED SUDDENLY OPEN THEM. PAN TO PEOPLE STANDING IN ROOM. VARIETY OF FACIAL EXPRESSIONS 01:27:15 - SNEAKY MAN PULLS ENVELOPE OUT OF INSIDE POCKET OF COAT. MAN LOOKS AT PAPERS, BRONZE STATUE BEHIND 01:27:38 - GROUP OF PEOPLE IN GLOOMY DARK HOUSE. MAN TAKES OFF OVERCOAT. SITS DOWN. SCORNED MAN WALKS UP STAIRS TURNS & LOOKS OVER SHOULDER 01:28:04 - MAN LOOKING VERY SMUG, ONE WOMAN LOOKS CONFUSED, OTHER WOMAN LOOKS CONCERNED. PEOPLE LISTENING TO MAN READING FROM PAPERS 01:28:14 - SEQUENCE OF CUs PEOPLE GATHERED, VARIETY OF FACIAL EXPRESSIONS FROM HAPPY TO ANGRY TO SAD TO CONFUSED. 01:28:55 - OLD WOMAN WEARING SHAWL LOOKING OUT WINDOW. 01:29:02 - ELDERLY WOMAN GOES OVER TO TABLE. LIGHTS OIL LAMP. ROOM LIGHTS UP STONE FIREPLACE. GESTURES TOWARD DOOR WITH ARMS OUT AS IF TO EMBRACE SOMEONE, HAPPY. SUDDENLY LOOKS CONCERNED WHEN SEES SONS GLUM LOOK 01:29:27 - MOTHER COMFORTING SON. PUTS HAND ON HIS CHEST. SON DESPONDENT. SITS DOWN, PUTS HEAD IN HAND 01:30:32 - HIGH SOCIETY HOME-HOUSE. DRAMATIC CURTAINS. MAN TRIES TO GET NEW WIFE TO SIGN PROPERTY TRANSFER 01:31:11 - ANGRILY, MAN PICKS UP PAPERS & THROWS ON THEM ON FLOOR. 01:31:24 - WOMAN ALONE IN ROOM GOES OVER TO WINDOW, LOOKS OUT 01:31:30 - MAN PACING IN ROOM. OLDER WOMAN NEEDLEPOINTS 01:32:05 - ANGRY MAN USING ARM TO CONVEY ANGER. PICKS UP HAT. MOTHER PUTS LOVING HAND ON HIS ARM 01:32:15 - MOTHER & CHILD AT DOORWAY SAYING GOODBYE 01:32:56 - MAN ON LAKE IN SMALL MOTOR BOAT 01:33:03 - SCRUFFY MAN TALKS TO CHIC COUPLE (MOS). 01:33:36 - SMALL BOAT PULLS UP TO DOCK 01:33:42 - MAN ON CLIFF SPIES BOAT PULLING IN, GESTURES WITH ARM "COME ON" TO UNSEEN PERSON 01:33:52 - INSIDE BOAT HOUSE MAN TIES UP BOAT WITH ROPE. LOOKS AROUND 01:34:06 - TWO MEN IN SUITS CLIMB DOWN SIDE OF HILL 01:34:12 - MAN IN BOAT HOUSE CHANGES CLOTHES. OAR & LIFE RAFT HANG ABOVE DOORWAY 01:34:54 - MAN SHINES FLASH LIGHT ACROSS BOAT HOUSE, FINDS LATCH OPENS SECRET DOOR. TURNS ON LIGHT. GOES THROUGH SECRET PASSAGE WAY 01:35:37 - MAN OPENS DOORWAY INTO SECRET WORKSHOP. REALIZES WHAT HE FOUND 01:35:57 - MAN TURNS AROUND, LOOK OF UNDERSTANDING COMES ON HIS FACE. GOES BACK OUT & CLOSES DOOR. WALKS THROUGH SECRET PASSAGEWAY. 01:36:20 - MAN WALKING PAUSES AS IF IN THOUGHT. THINKING 01:36:31 - SECRET DOOR LIFTS. MAN WALKS UP HIDDEN STAIRCASE. HIDDEN TRAP DOOR OPENS UP IN ROOM 01:36:47 - MAN CREEPING AROUND HOUSE 01:36:56 - DAZED NEWLY MARRIED WOMAN TALKS TO SNOOPING MAN 01:37:44 - PEOPLE RUN UP STAIRS OF HOUSE 01:37:47 - WOMAN OPENS DOOR, SURPRISED LOOK ON HER FACE. MAN SNOOPING CAUGHT. CHASE ENSUES 01:38:14 - CHASED MAN ESCAPES THROUGH SECRET TRAP DOOR 01:38:18 - FRANTIC PEOPLE LOOK AROUND FOR ESCAPED MAN. SCATTER OVER HOUSE 01:38:40 - MEN FIGHTING IN DARK ROOM 01:39:07 - WOMAN SHAKES ANOTHER AS IF TO AWAKEN HER FROM SLEEP WALK 01:39:10 - MAN CLIMBS OUT OF SECRET PASSAGEWAY. CHANGES CLOTHES 01:39:21 - TWO MEN CREEPING IN WOODS 01:39:27 - TWO WOMEN STRUGGLING, ARMS AROUND EACH OTHER 01:39:32 - MEN CREEPING AROUND DOCK. SPY AROUND CORNER 01:39:37 - POV SEEING MAN PUTTING IN TIE THROUGH SLAT IN WOOD, SPYING ON HIM 01:39:41 - MAN UNTIES BOAT FROM DOCK. TWO MEN JUMP IN & FIGHT WITH HIM 01:40:06 - BOAT ON LAKE WITH THREE MEN FIGHTING IN IT 01:40:20 - CU MEN IN BOAT FIGHTING. MAN HIT ON HEAD FALLS INTO WATER 01:40:29 - DEAD MAN FLOATING IN WATER, FACE UP
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1925
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1920s
- File Name: VM-211