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The Mascot Pictures Corporation was a minor film company of the 1920s and 1930s best known for producing film serials and B-westerns
Western (genre)

The Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States , but also in Western Canada, Mexico , Alaska and even Australia ....
. Mascot's serial The King of the Kongo
The King of the Kongo

The King of the Kongo is a Mascot Pictures Serial . It was the first serial to have Sound film, although only partial sound rather than the later "All-Talking" productions with complete sound....
 (1929
1929 in film

EventsThe days of the silent film were numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound film was on.*January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona was released....
) was the first serial to include sound
Sound film

A sound film is a film with synchronization, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before reliable synchronization was made commercially practical....
, beating Universal Studios
Universal Studios

Universal Studios , a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the six Worldwide major American film studios. Its production studios are located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California....
 by several months.

Mascot was formed in 1927 by Film producer
Film producer

A film producer is someone who creates the conditions for making film. The producer initiates, co-ordinates, supervises and controls matters such as fund-raising, hiring key personnel and arranging for distributors....
 Nat Levine
Nat Levine

Nat Levine , was an American film producer. He produced 105 films between 1921 in film and 1946 in film. He was personal secretary to Marcus Loew, formed Mascot Pictures in 1927, and merged Mascot with Herbert Yates's Republic Pictures in 1935....
. In 1935 it merged with other companies to form Republic Pictures
Republic Pictures

Republic Pictures is an in-name only independent film, television, and video distribution company that was originally a movie production-distribution corporation with studio facilities, best known for its specialization in quality B-film pictures, Western and movie Serial s....
.

Early years
Mascot was created by Nat Levine
Nat Levine

Nat Levine , was an American film producer. He produced 105 films between 1921 in film and 1946 in film. He was personal secretary to Marcus Loew, formed Mascot Pictures in 1927, and merged Mascot with Herbert Yates's Republic Pictures in 1935....
, a former personal secretary to Marcus Loew
Marcus Loew

Marcus Loew was an United States business magnate and a pioneer of the motion picture industry who formed Loews Theatres and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ....
, in 1927 after the success of his independent serial The Silent Flyer
The Silent Flyer

The Silent Flyer is a 1926 in film adventure film film serial directed by William James Craft. The film is considered to be lost film. ...
 (1926
1926 in film

Events*August - Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, Don Juan . The Vitaphone system used multiple 33? rpm gramophone record developed by Bell Labs and Western Electric to play back audio synchronized with film....
).

In the beginning the production company operated out of the upstairs offices of a contractor's business on Santa Monica Boulevard.






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The Mascot Pictures Corporation was a minor film company of the 1920s and 1930s best known for producing film serials and B-westerns
Western (genre)

The Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States , but also in Western Canada, Mexico , Alaska and even Australia ....
. Mascot's serial The King of the Kongo
The King of the Kongo

The King of the Kongo is a Mascot Pictures Serial . It was the first serial to have Sound film, although only partial sound rather than the later "All-Talking" productions with complete sound....
 (1929
1929 in film

EventsThe days of the silent film were numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound film was on.*January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona was released....
) was the first serial to include sound
Sound film

A sound film is a film with synchronization, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before reliable synchronization was made commercially practical....
, beating Universal Studios
Universal Studios

Universal Studios , a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the six Worldwide major American film studios. Its production studios are located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California....
 by several months.

Mascot was formed in 1927 by Film producer
Film producer

A film producer is someone who creates the conditions for making film. The producer initiates, co-ordinates, supervises and controls matters such as fund-raising, hiring key personnel and arranging for distributors....
 Nat Levine
Nat Levine

Nat Levine , was an American film producer. He produced 105 films between 1921 in film and 1946 in film. He was personal secretary to Marcus Loew, formed Mascot Pictures in 1927, and merged Mascot with Herbert Yates's Republic Pictures in 1935....
. In 1935 it merged with other companies to form Republic Pictures
Republic Pictures

Republic Pictures is an in-name only independent film, television, and video distribution company that was originally a movie production-distribution corporation with studio facilities, best known for its specialization in quality B-film pictures, Western and movie Serial s....
.

Early years


Mascot was created by Nat Levine
Nat Levine

Nat Levine , was an American film producer. He produced 105 films between 1921 in film and 1946 in film. He was personal secretary to Marcus Loew, formed Mascot Pictures in 1927, and merged Mascot with Herbert Yates's Republic Pictures in 1935....
, a former personal secretary to Marcus Loew
Marcus Loew

Marcus Loew was an United States business magnate and a pioneer of the motion picture industry who formed Loews Theatres and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ....
, in 1927 after the success of his independent serial The Silent Flyer
The Silent Flyer

The Silent Flyer is a 1926 in film adventure film film serial directed by William James Craft. The film is considered to be lost film. ...
 (1926
1926 in film

Events*August - Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, Don Juan . The Vitaphone system used multiple 33? rpm gramophone record developed by Bell Labs and Western Electric to play back audio synchronized with film....
).

In the beginning the production company operated out of the upstairs offices of a contractor's business on Santa Monica Boulevard. The company rented all of its equipment and facilities.

In 1929 the studio made serial history with the production of The King of the Kongo
The King of the Kongo

The King of the Kongo is a Mascot Pictures Serial . It was the first serial to have Sound film, although only partial sound rather than the later "All-Talking" productions with complete sound....
. This was the first serial, from any production company, to be made with sound
Sound film

A sound film is a film with synchronization, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before reliable synchronization was made commercially practical....
. Mascot's first All-Talking production was The Phantom of the West
The Phantom of the West

The Phantom of the West is a Mascot Pictures Serial and the second all-talking serial they produced.Tom Tyler stars as Jim Lester, trying to prove that Francisco Cortez is innocent of killing his own father....
 (1931
1931 in film

Events...
)

Sennett Studios

By 1933, Mascot was successful enough to rent, and later buy, Sennett Studios after the original owner, famous producer-director Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett

Mack Sennett was a Canadian -born Academy Award-winning director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy."...
, went bankrupt because of the Great Depression
Great Depression

File:International depression.pngThe Great Depression was a worldwide economic Recession starting in most places in 1929 and ending at different times in the 1930s or early 1940s for different countries....
. This made the company a true film studio.

Mascot was responsible for the popularity of the concept of the "singing cowboy" and the "musical Western. In 1935
1935 in film

Events*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ....
, the studio produced The Phantom Empire
The Phantom Empire

The Phantom Empire, starring Gene Autry the Singing Cowboy, was a 12-chapter 1935 in film Mascot Pictures Serial that combined the western , Musical theatre, and science fiction genres....
 with the then untried Gene Autry
Gene Autry

Orvon Gene Autry was an United States performing arts who gained fame as "Singing cowboy" on the Radio in the United States, in Cinema of the United States and on Television in the United States for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s....
 as the lead.

Republic Pictures


Mascot's film developer was Consolidated Film Corporation. In 1935, under pressure from from that company's owner, Herbert Yates
Herbert Yates

Herbert John Yates was the founder and president of Republic Pictures, famous for being the home of John Wayne, Gene Autry, and Roy Rogers. Under Yates' leadership between 1935 and 1959, Republic made 956 feature films and 849 serial chapters, many of which are classics enjoyed today on television and DVD by a whole new generation of appreci...
, Mascot merged with Consolidated Film and Monogram Pictures
Monogram Pictures

Monogram Pictures Corporation was a Hollywood studio that produced and released films, most on low budgets, between 1931 and 1953, when the firm completed a transition to the name Allied Artists Pictures Corporation....
 to form the larger Republic Pictures
Republic Pictures

Republic Pictures is an in-name only independent film, television, and video distribution company that was originally a movie production-distribution corporation with studio facilities, best known for its specialization in quality B-film pictures, Western and movie Serial s....
. Mascot became the serial and B-Western elements of the company, along with their studio. Along with other things, Monogram provided their distribution network and technical and financial elements came from Consolidated Film.

Two other companies, Liberty Pictures and Majestic Pictures, rejected the offer and soon went out of business.

Legacy


Several careers began at Mascot Pictures.

Actors


  • Gene Autry
    Gene Autry

    Orvon Gene Autry was an United States performing arts who gained fame as "Singing cowboy" on the Radio in the United States, in Cinema of the United States and on Television in the United States for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s....
  • Smiley Burnette
    Smiley Burnette

    Lester Alvin Burnette , an United States singer-songwriter who could play as many as 100 different musical instruments, was a successful comedy actor in western film films over three decades....
  • John Wayne
    John Wayne

    John Wayne was an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning United States film actor. He epitomized rugged masculinity and has become an enduring American icon....


Production crew


  • Ford Beebe
    Ford Beebe

    Ford Beebe was a screenwriter and Film director of several movies. He is sometimes credited with an I. or L. as his middle initial....
  • B. Reeves Eason
    B. Reeves Eason

    B. Reeves Eason was an United States silent film Film director, actor and screenwriter of the early period.Eason directed 150 films and starred in almost 100 films over his career....
  • Joseph Kane
    Joseph Kane

    Jasper Joseph Inman Kane was a prolific United States film director, film producer, film editor and screenwriter. He is best known for his extensive directorship and focus on western films....
  • The Lydecker brothers
    Lydecker brothers

    Howard and Theodore Lydecker, always known - and billed - as such, were Howard "Babe" Lydecker and Theodore Lydecker , a special effects team primarily working as contract staff members of Republic Pictures....
  • William Witney
    William Witney

    William Nuelsen Witney was an United States film director. He is most famous for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as Daredevils of the Red Circle, Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu....


Filmography


  • Men with Steel Faces (1940
    1940 in film

    The year 1940 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Doughnuts and Society (1936
    1936 in film

    The year 1936 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • The Fighting Marines
    The Fighting Marines

    The Fighting Marines is a Mascot Pictures Serial . This was the last serial ever produced by Mascot. The studio was bought out and merged with others to become Republic Pictures....
     (1935
    1935 in film

    Events*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ....
    )
  • Harmony Lane (1935
    1935 in film

    Events*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ....
    )
  • Confidential (1935
    1935 in film

    Events*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ....
    )
  • Waterfront Lady (1935
    1935 in film

    Events*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ....
    )
  • Streamline Express (1935
    1935 in film

    Events*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ....
    )
  • The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
    The Adventures of Rex and Rinty

    The Adventures of Rex and Rinty is a Mascot Pictures Serial starring Rex and canine actor Rin Tin Tin....
     (1935
    1935 in film

    Events*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ....
    )
  • Ladies Crave Excitement (1935
    1935 in film

    Events*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ....
    )
  • The Headline Woman (1935
    1935 in film

    Events*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ....
    )
  • One Frightened Night (1935
    1935 in film

    Events*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ....
    )
  • The Miracle Rider
    The Miracle Rider

    The Miracle Rider is a 1935 in film Mascot Pictures movie serial directed by B. Reeves Eason and Armand Schaefer. The serial stars Tom Mix....
     (1935
    1935 in film

    Events*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ....
    )
  • Behind the Green Lights (1935
    1935 in film

    Events*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ....
    )
  • The Phantom Empire
    The Phantom Empire

    The Phantom Empire, starring Gene Autry the Singing Cowboy, was a 12-chapter 1935 in film Mascot Pictures Serial that combined the western , Musical theatre, and science fiction genres....
     (1935
    1935 in film

    Events*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ....
    )
  • Little Men (1934
    1934 in film

    Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
    )
  • Mystery Mountain
    Mystery Mountain (serial)

    Mystery Mountain is a Mascot Pictures movie serial.It was a remake of Mascot's own The Hurricane Express ....
     (1934
    1934 in film

    Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
    )
  • Burn 'Em Up Barnes
    Burn 'Em Up Barnes

    Burn 'Em Up Barnes is a Mascot Pictures Serial . It was a loose remake of the 1921 in film film Burn 'Em Up Barnes ....
     (1934
    1934 in film

    Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
    )
  • The Marines Are Coming (1934
    1934 in film

    Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
    )
  • In Old Santa Fe
    In Old Santa Fe

    In Old Santa Fe is a 1934 in film Western film starring Ken Maynard and George "Gabby" Hayes. The movie features the first screen appearance of Gene Autry, singing a song with a Bluegrass music band that includes Smiley Burnette....
     (1934
    1934 in film

    Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
    )
  • Crimson Romance (1934
    1934 in film

    Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
    )
  • Young and Beautiful (1934
    1934 in film

    Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
    )
  • The Law of the Wild
    The Law of the Wild

    The Law of the Wild is a Mascot Pictures Serial directed by B. Reeves Eason and Armand Schaefer....
     (1934
    1934 in film

    Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
    )
  • Burn 'Em Up Barnes
    Burn 'Em Up Barnes

    Burn 'Em Up Barnes is a Mascot Pictures Serial . It was a loose remake of the 1921 in film film Burn 'Em Up Barnes ....
     (1934
    1934 in film

    Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
    )
  • The Lost Jungle
    The Lost Jungle

    The Lost Jungle is a Mascot Pictures Serial .A semi-sequel to this serial, Darkest Africa, was released by Republic Pictures in 1936....
     (1934
    1934 in film

    Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
    )
  • The Lone Defender
    The Lone Defender

    The Lone Defender is a Mascot Pictures Serial starring Rin Tin Tin. This was Mascot's first all sound serial . This was Rin Tin Tin's first serial at Mascot, after being dropped by Warner Bros....
     (1934
    1934 in film

    Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
    )
  • The Lost Jungle
    The Lost Jungle

    The Lost Jungle is a Mascot Pictures Serial .A semi-sequel to this serial, Darkest Africa, was released by Republic Pictures in 1936....
     (1934
    1934 in film

    Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
    )
  • The Mystery Squadron
    The Mystery Squadron

    The Mystery Squadron is a Mascot Pictures Serial .This serial has four recap chapters ....
     (1933
    1933 in film

    Events*British Film Institute founded.*March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey....
    )
  • The Wolf Dog
    The Wolf Dog

    The Wolf Dog is a Mascot Pictures Serial film. It was directed by Colbert Clark and Harry L. Fraser and starred Frankie Darro and Rin Tin Tin, Jr.....
     (1933
    1933 in film

    Events*British Film Institute founded.*March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey....
    )
  • Laughing at Life (1933
    1933 in film

    Events*British Film Institute founded.*March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey....
    )
  • Fighting with Kit Carson
    Fighting with Kit Carson

    Fighting with Kit Carson is a Mascot Pictures Serial ....
     (1933
    1933 in film

    Events*British Film Institute founded.*March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey....
    )
  • The Whispering Shadow
    The Whispering Shadow

    The Whispering Shadow is a Serial film, starring B?la Lugosi in his first serial role. Lugosi received $10,000, the highest known salary of his career, for this film....
     (1933
    1933 in film

    Events*British Film Institute founded.*March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey....
    )
  • The Three Musketeers
    The Three Musketeers (1933 serial)

    The Three Musketeers is a 1933 in film Serial film produced by Mascot Pictures which updates Alexandre Dumas, p?re The Three Musketeers by setting the story in contemporary North Africa....
     (1933
    1933 in film

    Events*British Film Institute founded.*March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey....
    )
  • The Devil Horse
    The Devil Horse

    The Devil Horse is a Mascot Pictures Serial ....
     (1932
    1932 in film

    Events*Katharine Hepburn's film career begins*Shirley Temple's film career begins*The Walt Disney Company released Flowers and Trees their first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor film....
    )
  • Pride of the Legion (1932
    1932 in film

    Events*Katharine Hepburn's film career begins*Shirley Temple's film career begins*The Walt Disney Company released Flowers and Trees their first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor film....
    )
  • The Hurricane Express
    The Hurricane Express

    The Hurricane Express is a 12-chapter Mascot Pictures serial that stars John Wayne as an airplane pilot who goes after a mystery villain named "The Wrecker," the man responsible for a train crash that killed Wayne's father....
     (1932
    1932 in film

    Events*Katharine Hepburn's film career begins*Shirley Temple's film career begins*The Walt Disney Company released Flowers and Trees their first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor film....
    )
  • The Last of the Mohicans
    The Last of the Mohicans (serial)

    The Last of the Mohicans is a Mascot Pictures Serial based on the novel The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper....
     (1932
    1932 in film

    Events*Katharine Hepburn's film career begins*Shirley Temple's film career begins*The Walt Disney Company released Flowers and Trees their first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor film....
    )
  • The Shadow of the Eagle
    The Shadow of the Eagle

    The Shadow of the Eagle is a Mascot Pictures Serial film starring John Wayne in his first serial role. This serial is now in the public domain....
     (1932
    1932 in film

    Events*Katharine Hepburn's film career begins*Shirley Temple's film career begins*The Walt Disney Company released Flowers and Trees their first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor film....
    )
  • The Lightning Warrior
    The Lightning Warrior

    The Lightning Warrior is a Mascot Pictures Serial starring Rin Tin Tin in his last role. It is regarded as one of the better Mascot serials....
     (1931
    1931 in film

    Events...
    )
  • The Galloping Ghost
    The Galloping Ghost (serial)

    The Galloping Ghost is a Mascot Pictures Serial . The title is actually the nickname of the star, American football player Red Grange....
     (1931
    1931 in film

    Events...
    )
  • The Vanishing Legion
    The Vanishing Legion

    The Vanishing Legion is a Mascot Pictures Serial film directed by Ford Beebe and B. Reeves Eason.The stars Harry Carey and Edwina Booth were originally intended to be in the studio's previous serial, King of the Wild, but had to be re-cast when the MGM film Trader Horn over ran it's schedule....
     (1931
    1931 in film

    Events...
    )
  • King of the Wild
    King of the Wild

    King of the Wild is a Mascot Pictures Serial ....
     (1931
    1931 in film

    Events...
    )
  • The Phantom of the West
    The Phantom of the West

    The Phantom of the West is a Mascot Pictures Serial and the second all-talking serial they produced.Tom Tyler stars as Jim Lester, trying to prove that Francisco Cortez is innocent of killing his own father....
     (1931
    1931 in film

    Events...
    )
  • The Lone Defender
    The Lone Defender

    The Lone Defender is a Mascot Pictures Serial starring Rin Tin Tin. This was Mascot's first all sound serial . This was Rin Tin Tin's first serial at Mascot, after being dropped by Warner Bros....
     (1930
    1930 in film

    Events...
    )
  • The King of the Kongo
    The King of the Kongo

    The King of the Kongo is a Mascot Pictures Serial . It was the first serial to have Sound film, although only partial sound rather than the later "All-Talking" productions with complete sound....
     (1929
    1929 in film

    EventsThe days of the silent film were numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound film was on.*January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona was released....
    )
  • The Fatal Warning
    The Fatal Warning

    The Fatal Warning is a 1929 in film mystery film film serial directed by Richard Thorpe. The film is considered to be a lost film, with no prints known to exist....
     (1929
    1929 in film

    EventsThe days of the silent film were numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound film was on.*January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona was released....
    )
  • Vultures of the Sea
    Vultures of the Sea

    Vultures of the Sea is a 1928 in film adventure film serial directed by Richard Thorpe. The film is considered to be lost film. Cast...
     (1928
    1928 in film

    EventsAlthough some movies released in 1928 had Sound film, most were still silent film.* July 31 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's mascot Leo the Lion roars for the very first time, creating one of the most popular American film logos....
    )
  • The Vanishing West
    The Vanishing West

    The Vanishing West is a 1928 in film Western film serial directed by Richard Thorpe. The film is considered to be lost film. ...
     (1928
    1928 in film

    EventsAlthough some movies released in 1928 had Sound film, most were still silent film.* July 31 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's mascot Leo the Lion roars for the very first time, creating one of the most popular American film logos....
    )
  • Heroes of the Wild
    Heroes of the Wild

    Heroes of the Wild is a 1927 in film Western film serial directed by Harry S. Webb. The film is considered to be lost film. ...
     (1927
    1927 in film

    Events*January 10 - Fritz Lang's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis premieres in Germany.*April 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries Marion Benda....
    )
  • Isle of Sunken Gold
    Isle of Sunken Gold

    Isle of Sunken Gold is a 1927 in film adventure film film serial directed by Harry S. Webb. The film is considered to be lost film. ...
     (1927
    1927 in film

    Events*January 10 - Fritz Lang's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis premieres in Germany.*April 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries Marion Benda....
    )
  • The Golden Stallion
    The Golden Stallion

    The Golden Stallion is a 1927 in film Western film serial directed by Harry S. Webb. ...
     (1927
    1927 in film

    Events*January 10 - Fritz Lang's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis premieres in Germany.*April 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries Marion Benda....
    )


Additionally,

  • The Silent Flyer
    The Silent Flyer

    The Silent Flyer is a 1926 in film adventure film film serial directed by William James Craft. The film is considered to be lost film. ...
     (1926
    1926 in film

    Events*August - Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, Don Juan . The Vitaphone system used multiple 33? rpm gramophone record developed by Bell Labs and Western Electric to play back audio synchronized with film....
    ) was created by Nat Levine but was not strictly a Mascot production


See also


  • List of film serials by studio
    List of film serials by studio

    A List of film serials by studio, separated into five major studios and the remaining minor studios.The five major studios produced the greater number of serials....
     includes a list of serials produced by Mascot.


Further reading


  • The Vanishing Legion: A History of Mascot Pictures 1927-1935; Tuska, Jon; 1999 (McFarland Classics); ISBN 978-0786407491


External links