The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan

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.

• Release date
• January 31, 1914
• Runtime
• 14 min
• Genres
• Comedy
• Director
• Walter Edwin

Cast

Yale Boss Daddy, the office boy Edward Boulden A reporter Mary Fuller Dolly Desmond Charles Ogle James Malone Warren Cook Mr. Cambridge Miriam Nesbitt Mrs. Cambridge

C

Charles Sutton James Bolliver

F

Florence Coventry Mrs. Winslow