A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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How It Happened
(1925) England
B&W : One reel
Directed by Alexander Butler

Cast: Sydney Seaward [the motorist], [?] Ira Young?, [?] Betty Young?, [?] Martin Decker?, [?] Henry Carter?

Reciprocity Films production; distributed by Reciprocity Films. / From a [?] short story? by Arthur Conan Doyle. Film editor, Hal Hodes. Intertitles written by Hal Hodes. / Released November 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / A film in the “Twisted Tales” series. The film was released in the USA by Short Films Syndicate, Incorporated, in [?] 1927? / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive [35mm preservation positive].

Current rights holder: (unknown) [United Kingdom]; Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 15 April 2020.

References: Website-IMDb.