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Weavers of Fortune

1922 British silent sports film directed by Arthur Rooke

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ27590513 ↗
Source-derived summary

Weavers of Fortune is a 1922 British silent sports film directed by Arthur Rooke and starring Henry Vibart, Dacia and Derek Glynne.

Cast

Henry Vibart as Jackson

Dacia as Minna Vandyck

Derek Glynne as Tom Winter

Myrtle Vibart as Molly Jackson

See also

List of films about horses

References

Bibliography

Low, Rachael. History of the British Film, 1918-1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Weavers of Fortune” is 1922 British silent sports film directed by Arthur Rooke. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Weavers, Fortune and British, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1922, 1918, 1929, 1971—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1922. For this dossier, Weavers, Fortune and British is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “1922 British silent sports film directed by Arthur Rooke” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27590513. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1922, 1918, 1929 and 1971.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. 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.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Weavers of Fortune” 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.