This is a definitive record of the players and productions of Mascot Pictures, a film company that specialised in chapter plays and B movies and became influential in winning an audience for the kind of films it innovated, such as the musical Western.

Table of Contents Acknowledgments      Preface      1. The Lurking Peril      2. The Gambler      3. The Voice Speaks      4. The Lightning Warrior      5. Painted Faces      [16 pages of plates, 57-72] 6. Shieks in Bedlam      7. The Lost Jungle      8. Laughing at Life      9. Mystery Mountain      [16 pages of plates, 137-152] 10. Miracles and Music      11. Tom Mix Rides Again      12. The End of the Trail      Appendix I: The Mascot Serials      Appendix II: The Mascot Features      Index     

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