complete print was discovered amongst a cache of 35mm nitrate  film prints being stored in the residence of a former theater  projectionist in Pennsylvania. The first reel, which contained  material from Chapter 1, had decomposed and was discarded. The  remaining 22 reels (of the original 30 or 31) contain footage from  all 15 of the original episodes, condensed, apparently, by the  original owner of the film so that the serial could be shown as an  extended feature. Boris Karloffs brief part, as a Mexican who  threatens a Texas Ranger in a tavern in Chapter 2, is his earliest  known film appearance. Apparently the Texas Rangers who appear in  the serial were not actors but real