Radiance

Contents

Dedication

Chronology

Locations

Epigraph

Come Forward!

Oh, Those Scandalous Stars!

PART ONE - THE WHITE PAGES

The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew

(Oxblood Films, dir. Severin Unck, 1946)

From the Personal Reels of Percival Alfred Unck

Preproduction Meeting, The Deep Blue Devil [working title]

(Tranquillity Studios, 1959, dir. Percival Unck)

The Deep Blue Devil: Come Find Me

Newsreel

From the Personal Reels of Percival Alfred Unck

Self-Portrait with Saturn

(Tranquillity Studios, 1936, dir. Severin Unck)

Oh, Those Scandalous Stars!

Look Down

The Ingénue’s Handbook

Ship’s Manifest, Small Commercial Craft Clamshell

I Left My Sugar Standing in the Rain

How Many Miles to Babylon?: Episode 764

From the Personal Reels of Percival Alfred Unck

The Deep Blue Devil: The Dame in Question

All-Clear

PART TWO - THE BLUE PAGES

The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew

(Oxblood films, dir. Severin Unck)

Production Meeting, The Deep Blue Devil

The Man in the Malachite Mask

(Tranquillity Studios, 1960, dir. Percival Unck)

The Deep Blue Devil

The Man in the Malachite Mask:

My Sin

Your Friend Pluto!

(Patriot Films, 1921)

The Deep Blue Devil

The Man in the Malachite Mask:

Totentanz

From the Personal Reels of Percival Alfred Unck

And the Sea Remembered, Suddenly

(Oxblood Films, 1941, dir. Severin Unck)

Look at Her Face

The Miranda Affair

(Capricorn Studios, 1931, dir. Thaddeus Irigaray)

The Ingénue’s Handbook

How Many Miles to Babylon?: Episode 1

His Master’s Voice

Oh, Those Scandalous Stars!

The Deep Blue Devil

The Man in the Malachite Mask:

The Murder of Gonzago

“Calliope the Carefree Callowhale” PSA

PART THREE - THE GREEN PAGES

The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew

(Oxblood Films, dir. Severin Unck)

Production Meeting,

The Deep Blue Devil

The Man in the Malachite Mask

Doctor Callow’s Dream

(Tranquillity Studios, 1960, dir. Percival Unck)

The Deep Blue Devil

The Man in the Malachite Mask

Doctor Callow’s Dream

The Land of Milk and Desire

The Famine Queen of Phobos

(Oxblood Films, 1938, dir. Severin Unck)

From the Personal Reels of Percival Alfred Unck

The Ingénue’s Handbook

Kansas

From the Personal Reels of Percival Alfred Unck

The Deep Blue Devil

The Man in the Malachite Mask

Doctor Callow’s Dream:

The House, the Eye, and the Whale

From the Personal Reels of Percival Alfred Unck

The Deep Blue Devil

The Man in the Malachite Mask

Doctor Callow’s Dream:

Teatime for Mr Bergamot

PART FOUR - THE GOLD PAGES

The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew

(Oxblood Films, dir. Severin Unck)

Production Meeting

The Deep Blue Devil

The Man in the Malachite Mask

Doctor Callow’s Dream

And If She’s Not Gone, She Lives There Still

(Tranquillity Studios, 1961, dir. Percival Unck)

The Deep Blue Devil

The Man in the Malachite Mask

Doctor Callow’s Dream

And If She’s Not Gone, She Lives There Still:

The Case of the Disappearing Documentarian

From the Personal Reels of Percival Alfred Unck

The Graeae

Christmas Card, mailed to C. Brass c/o Oxblood Films,

Yemaya, December 1952

The Ingénue’s Handbook

How Many Miles to Babylon?: Episode 974

The Deep Blue Devil

The Man in the Malachite Mask

Doctor Callow’s Dream

And If She’s Not Gone, She Lives There Still:

The Case of the Reappearing Raconteur

PART FIVE - THE RED PAGES

The Man of the Hours

Goodbye

The Howler and the Lord of the World

Acknowledgments

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