ABSTRACT
In German fi lm journals of August 1914, advertisements appeared claiming a new world record had been set: an 8,000-meter fi lm that had cost one million Marks to produce. The fi lm would be released soon, and in it audiences could see elephants, tigers, and buffalos all creating much excitement and danger for the main actress. The German fi lm journal Lichtbild-Bühne described it as the latest interesting innovation in cinema and welcomed the fi lm with the words “Willkommen, schöne Kathlyn.”1 It was the American serial The Adventures of Kathlyn, released in Germany with the title Die Abenteuer der Schönen Kathlyn.
