An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A reporter attends another play in Chinatown, is likewise kidnapped and rescues the young woman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011 in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation New Zealand Project.
Production
Survived 97 years in a New Zealand vault.
Acting
Mary Fuller's eyebrow acting carries the entire serial.
Director
Walter Edwin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was installment #5 of a 12-chapter serial; most episodes are lost forever.
Edison's studio churned out 'Dolly' chapters weekly—this was binge culture's great-great-grandmother.
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