William Bertram (1920) 🇺🇸

If a child of four spoke English with an Indian accent and was raised on the plains among the Indians mostly on a bareback horse; and at the age of nine moved into a new and mountainous region of the West and associated with miners, hunters, trappers, Indians, loggers, cowboys and the general population of the pioneer West; and in time went on the stage and worked with most of the best ones of their time and was in turn, actor, manager, stage manager, stage director and advance agent, both on the big time and kerosene circuit for twelve years — and eventually worked into pictures and for seven years tried to absorb all the knowledge available, would he be the man best equipped to make the best serials?

Such is the record of William Bertram who recently completed the Vitagraph Serial Hidden Dangers, and who is now in the mountains among the big pines he knows and loves so well, where with a cast of regular boys, and with the able assistance of that capable “slave driver” Bert Ensminger is making another thriller in fifteen episodes called The Purple Riders.

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Collection: It Magazine, October 1920