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The Bullet Mark

1928 film directed by Stuart Paton

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ63698642 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Bullet Mark is a 1928 American silent Western film directed by Stuart Paton and starring Jack Donovan, Gladys McConnell and Joseph W. Girard.

Cast

Jack Donovan

Gladys McConnell

Joseph W. Girard

Albert J. Smith

Lincoln Plumer

Margaret Gray

Preservation

With no holdings located in archives, The Bullet Mark is considered a lost film.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “The Bullet Mark” as 1928 film directed by Stuart Paton. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bullet, Mark and film.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1928—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1928. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bullet, Mark and film providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “The Bullet Mark”, the useful work is to connect “1928 film directed by Stuart Paton” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q63698642. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1928.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Bullet Mark”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Bullet Mark primary sources, The Bullet Mark archive and Bullet research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “The Bullet Mark”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “The Bullet Mark” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.