The Black Secret

{{short description|1919 film}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox film | name = The Black Secret | image = Pearl White The Black Secret Film Daily 1919.png | caption = Ad for film with Pearl White | director = [[George B. Seitz]] | producer = George B. Seitz | writer = [[Robert W. Chambers]]<br>[[Bertram Millhauser]] | starring = [[Pearl White]]<br>[[Walter McGrail]] | studio = George Seitz Productions | distributor = [[Pathé Exchange]] | released = {{film date|1919|11|9}} | runtime = 15 episodes | country = United States | language = Silent (English [[intertitle]]s) }}

'''''The Black Secret''''' is a 1919 American [[adventure film|adventure]] [[film serial]] directed by [[George B. Seitz]]. The film was recorded in both [[Fort Lee, New Jersey]], as well as in the nearby [[Hudson Palisades]]. Recording took place during a time when many of the early 20th century [[film studio]]s in [[America's first motion picture industry]] were based there.<ref>{{Citation | last = Koszarski | first = Richard | title = Fort Lee: The Film Town | place = Rome, Italy |publisher=John Libbey Publishing |year=2004 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5w0r8YKan04C&q=Fort+Lee:+the+film+town+Door+Richard+Koszarski | isbn= 0-86196-653-8 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | title = Studios and Films | publisher = Fort Lee Film Commission | url = http://www.fortleefilm.org/studios.html | access-date = May 30, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Fort Lee Film Commission |title=Fort Lee Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry | publisher = Arcadia Publishing | year = 2006 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ViR3b72xkK0C&q=Fort+Lee+Birthplace+of+the+Motion+Picture+Industry | isbn = 0-7385-4501-5 }}</ref>

The film is currently considered to be [[lost film|lost]].<ref name="silentera">{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/B/BlackSecret1919.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: ''The Black Secret'' |access-date=February 24, 2008|work=Silent Era}}</ref> However, a portion survives, and, in 2021, was digitized and released by a YouTube channel based in the United Kingdom.<ref>"[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ3MVCg7aQg Newly Discovered Footage of "The Black Secret" (1919) Starring Pearl White]", YouTube, July 9, 2021.</ref> [[File:Black Secret lobby card.jpg|thumb|Lobby card]]

==Cast== * [[Pearl White]] as Evelyn Ereth * [[Walter McGrail]] as Ray McKay * Wallace McCutcheon Jr. as Frederick * [[George B. Seitz]] * [[Henry G. Sell]] * Marjorie Milton * [[Harry Semels]] * Francis Wightwick

==See also== * [[List of film serials]] * [[List of film serials by studio]] * [[List of incomplete or partially lost films]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{commons category|The Black Secret}} *{{IMDb title|id=0009936|title=The Black Secret}} *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ3MVCg7aQg Newly Discovered Footage of "The Black Secret" (1919) Starring Pearl White] {{George B. Seitz}}

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