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A 1919 Silent Comedy Thought Lost Turned Up in a Japanese Antique Shop—Now It’s Going Home

A 1919 Billy B. Van comedy, long believed lost, resurfaced in an antique shop in Japan. Now Van-ar-chy is returning to the New Hampshire town where it was filmed.

Original symbolic illustration of archival keys and a closed case file before an empty church aisle and television static; it does not depict Mathew Betkouski or actual evidence.

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Original illustration of a 1950s briefing room with an audio recorder, typed case files, and a radar diagram.

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Illustration of a large fawn-colored bullmastiff with a dark muzzle and broad build, inspired by documented photographs of Butkus.

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An open copy of Amelia Earhart’s memoir with a tiny record tucked inside, beside a non-contact optical scanner in a conservation lab.

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A 35mm film canister and unspooled film sit in an archival cinema room beside a projector casting a blurred noir-style silhouette.

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16mm film reels and contact sheets in an archive editing room, with indistinct silhouettes on a viewer in an illustrative scene.

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Conceptual illustration of a transparent microfluidic chip with hinged artificial cilia pumping liquid through warm and cool channels.

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An illustrative bigfin squid floats above a deep-sea floor, its large fins extended and its long arms hanging at elbow-like bends in the ROV lights.

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