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The Oath of the Sword
1914 · Film · short · 31 min
Directed by Frank Shaw
A three-reel silent drama about an ambitious young man leaving behind his beloved in Japan to study abroad at the University of California, Berkeley.
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> She said that in 2016 she asked archivists across the country if they had any copies of the film. She heard back later that year about one museum, the Eastman, which had a decaying copy in a vault.
> The Eastman had listed the film in its extensive online archives but the museum has so many reels that it hadn’t paid attention to “The Oath of the Sword.”
Who considered this film "Lost Forever"? It appears to just have been rare and largely forgotten. It is not listed here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/7,200_Lost_U.S._Silent_Feature_Films_(1912-29)_(2021-02-04)
It's great that they saved this one, but how many more films like this are rotting in vaults?
>the museum has so many reels that it hadn’t paid attention to “The Oath of the Sword.”
"The Oath of the Sword", by the Los Angeles–based Japanese American Film Company. A love triangle involving a student returning from UC Berkeley.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2331438/plotsummary/ -- https://www.google.com/search?q=The-Oath-of-the-Sword -- https://www.academymuseum.org/en/programs/detail/the-oath-of-the-sword-0187ecf6-8dcc-03d8-d6a7-b37813ea2e6a