THE TRAIL OF THE OCTOPUS (1919) serial Chapter 1 Reel 1

Neva Gerber and Ben Wilson in the eerie first chapter (very slightly edited to fit YouTube's 15 minute format) of THE TRAIL OF THE OCTOPUS, in the process of being restored by Eric Stedman of the Serial Squadron.

Music is by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0" http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"

This is one of the creepiest first chapters of a serial ever -- and this is only the first half of it.

Note: Turn your sound up when listening to this, the audio is pretty cool and adds to the weird atmosphere.

For more information about this serial visit http://www.serialsquadron.com

Motion artifacts present in this upload are not present in the actual digital transfer of the serial. We may try another encode of this later to see if we can get rid of the interference.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• lost
• serial
• 1919
• silent
• curse
• egypt
• murder
• talisman
• cliffhanger
• horror

[shandelear]

reminds me of richard sala's 'chuckling wutzit'

[backyardstudios96]

Awesome serial! I can't wait!

[vamich]

@thebookpit

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[thebookpit]

Holy Crap!!! this looks amazing!!!

are the other chapters available at all? anyone?

what we could do with this lost gem - Rotting Moldy Flesh