Series · Pathé · 1914
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The Perils of Pauline
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Pearl White's cliff is the product, and a cutdown is not the Saturday serial.
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The review
Saturday houses bought a serial, and this title is what the country means by cliffhanger. Pearl White. A young woman with a fortune. A guardian who wants her dead. A weekly peril. A teen can watch the idea. What survives is not the whole run the crowd saw. I won't pretend a cutdown is the serial those Saturdays paid for.
The cliff is the product. You are trained to need the next week, not to see the guardian stopped or the fortune used for anything but bait. Where courage shows, it is a peril booked ahead. Useful if you are explaining how the habit started. Thin if you wanted a story that knows when to stop.
Journal
Keep The Perils of Pauline in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
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The glance
Industry and Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 4Industry
Pearl White's weekly peril is the job Pathé sold; the guardian is a device.
- 2Household
A fortune and a guardian who wants her dead: the household is the threat.
- 2Piety
No conscience stops the man who wants her dead; next week still needs him.
- 5Courage
She is put in peril on a schedule, which is risk sold as the chapter.
- 2Republic
A private inheritance plot, not a debt to a town or a law you can trust.
- 1Temperance
The cliff is the product, built so you need the next Saturday.
- 3Truth
A surviving cutdown is not the serial the Saturday houses actually bought.
- 3Stewardship
What remains is a fragment of a run, plus the habit of waiting on a cliff.
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