The Perils of Pauline (1914 serial)
1914 American film serial
The Perils of Pauline (1914 serial)
The Perils of Pauline is a 1914 American melodrama film serial produced by William Randolph Hearst and released by the Eclectic Film Company, an American subsidiary of the French group Pathé Frères, shown in bi-weekly installments, featuring Pearl White as the title character, a young heiress with an independent nature and a desire for adventure. The serial had 20 episodes, the first being three reels (30 minutes), and the rest two reels (20 minutes) each. After the original run, it was reshown in theaters a number of times, sometimes in re-edited versions, through the 1920s. Today, The Perils of Pauline is known to exist only in a condensed, reformatted 9-chapter version (approximately 214 minutes), released in Europe in 1916 by Pathé Frères. Despite popular associations, Pauline was never tied to a railroad track in the series, an image that was added to popular mythology by scenes in stage melodramas of the 1800s, in film serials featuring the resourceful "railroad girl" Helen Holmes...
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