Remarkable and beautifully compulsive little object, no doubt by the hand of a young man working as a projectionist between reels.

In addition to the movie posters and favorite scenes, there are cut times and serial titles written for his reference.

Spans 1918 - 23, it's hard not to imagine the escape these films brought to a country devastated by WWI. 

Includes Silent Films and Early Moving Pictures / Talkies 

The Lighting Raider (1919) starring Pearl White as a beautiful young thief and a horribly stereotyped ‘Yellow Menace’ character of Wu Fang played by Warner Oland. 

King of the Circus (1920), an American action film serial considered to be lost. 

Hands Up (1918) starring Ruth Roland in her break out role, an American adventure serial again considered lost. 

Red Lights (1923) is set almost entirely on a moving train, an American silent mystery with a psychic villain and a railroad magnate in search of his kidnapped daughter and heir. 

The Adventures of Ruth (1919) features another heiress, this time questing after an artifact stolen from her dying father by a band of thieves. 

The Iron Test (1918) is a lost American serial by Vitagraph starring Carol Holloway in 15 episodes. 

Christie Comedies (California pioneer studio, Al Christie had actually moved there in 1911 to  run the first movie studio in Hollywood). 

The Money Corral (1919) stars William S. Hart as a cowboy / rodeo star who was once again wooed by the daughter of a Railroad magnate. 

Vive La France (1918). Wartime romance of a young woman, orphaned by the war, who returns to France as a Red Cross volunteer and a French soldier. 

The Vanishing Dagger (1920) with Eddie Polo, another criminal action drama but rather notably featuring the discussion of interracial marriage. 

Elmo the Mighty (1919) is an American silent film Western serial that starred Elmo Lincoln and Grace Cunard, now considered to be lost. 

Mentions of the Daily Mirror Beauty Competition, Palladium Theatre and specifically one drawing likely copied from a Magic Lantern Slide Advertisement for Pains Fireworks firmly places origin in the UK. 

(62) ledger ruled pages w/ sewn binding measure just over 5 x 7”. Includes (20) full page color drawings w/ many other in pencil. Two pages share significant corner loss.