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Ralph Byrd and Herbert Rawlinson in
BLAKE OF
SCOTLAND YARD
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The obscure serial featuring Ralph "Dick Tracy" Byrd long-unseen in good condition, stabilized and noise-reduced and transferred from a somewhat worn but original print and though the restoration is a little rickety sometimes in general it looks surprisingly good!

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Copies of some restored/preserved titles are available for purposes of research or study. Recent additions:
THE LOST SPECIAL and
THE VANISHING SHADOW

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The Restored Original
DRUMS OF FU MANCHU

Transferred from a film master made from the original Republic Pictures Archive print & with an introduction by Fu Manchu author William Patrick Maynard. NOTE: Please do not email asking when your Fu Manchu DVD will ship. They did not go out all at once and have not all been shipped yet. Orders are being filled in the order they were received, new orders first, then we will begin shipping whatever has not been covered from the old pledge list. Watch your email box for notification of the shipment of your copy.

Shazam! And welcome to the Serial Squadron Archive, since 1998, the home of the classic cliffhanger movie serials on the web and publisher of the great lost serial restorations!

SOUND SERIALS New digital restorations on DVD for sale Click for many more titles

SILENT SERIALS 1912-1929 restored and with new musical scores Click for more titles

AUDIO CLIFFHANGERS old programs, re-creations of lost serials & new original cliffhangers Click for more titles

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UPCOMING RELEASES Listed in likely shipping date order

COMICS

CLIFFHANGER TREASURY #3

KAMARA AND THE SUN GODDESS Adventure Book

CLIFFHANGER TREASURY #4

AUDIO DVDS

THE MYSTERY MIND featuring Adrian Booth

THE VOICE FROM THE SKY

KAMARA AND THE SUN GODDESS
featuring Adrian Booth and Mia Greene

DVDS

THE MASKED RIDER Vol. 3

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"I am the serial. I am the black sheep of the motion picture family and the reviled of critics. I am the soulless one with no moral,
no character, no uplift. I am ashamed . . . Ah me, if only I could be respectable!" -- THE NEW YORK DRAMATIC Mirror, 1916