A Virgin Paradise is a lost[1] 1921 American silent adventure film produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation and starring serial queen Pearl White, for who it had been written by her friend Hiram Percy Maxim. It was directed by veteran director J. Searle Dawley,[2][3] and filmed near Harrington Sound in the British Imperial fortresscolony of Bermuda, 640 miles off North Carolina where Searle had previously filmed The Relief of Lucknow and For Valour in 1912.[4][5][6][7][8] Animals, including monkeys and lions, were imported for the production. On 21 December 1920, Dawley received a cable at 8:25 AM at the Princess Hotel urging that White, who had previously visited Bermuda in 1913,[9] leave Bermuda that day for New York aboard the RMS Fort Victoria. As the ship had already departed from the City of Hamilton, she was flown by a seaplane of the Bermuda and West Atlantic Aviation Company from the Princess Hotel to board the ship at Murray's Anchorage before it passed through Hurd's channel onto the open Atlantic Ocean. White was photographed boarding the seaplane by the proprietors of the Bermuda and West Atlantic Aviation Company, Major Henry Hamilton "Hal" Kitchener (the son of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Walter Kitchener) and Major Harold Hemming.[10][11][12]
^"HUMANOPHONE COMPANY. "FOR VALOUR". Beautiful Bermuda Film". The Royal Gazette. City of Hamilton, Pembroke, Bermuda. May 15, 1913. p. 2. This evening the Humanophone Company offer as the central attraction of their moving picture exhibition at the Colonial Opera House the Edison, Bermuda film "For Valour," made while Mr. Dawley and his company were at work last year at the Villa Montecello, Flatts. The story concerns the loves of a pretty Bermuda maiden who finds herself unable to choose between two representatives of the British Army until they are on the eve of departure for the South African War. Her choice falls upon one who eventually turns out to be a mean coward. But the other undertakes to bring him back to her and fulfils the self-imposed task although the coward has won a medal for an act which his rival performed. Eventually the truth, becomes known, and the Bermuda beauty rectifies her mistake. It is a pleasing picture and, the local setting lends it a peculiar interest for Bermudians. There was a large attendance of the lovers of good moving pictures at the Town Hall, St. George's on Monday night to see the splendid exhibition given by the Humanophone Company. There are a large number of young boys and girls who regularly attend the Monday night shows and Master Arthur said on Monday night' that Mr. Kaplan might put a real funny one in for their benefit. The Humanphone Co's. pictures are of a very high class, but a little nonsense now and then is relished by the best of men. Miss Silverstone delighted the audience With her performance at the piano and the people of St. George's appreciate her playing more and more as the season advances.
^"RELIEF OF LUCKNOW: Dinna Ye Hear It?". The Royal Gazette. City of Hamilton, Pembroke, Bermuda. August 13, 1912. it was created by the Edison artistes who made their headquarters last spring at Villa Monticello, Flatts.
^"HUMANOPHONE COMPANY. Famous Historic Picture Shown-Relief of Lucknow". The Royal Gazette. City of Hamilton, Pembroke, Bermuda. August 17, 1912. To Bermudians this picture has peculiar interest; for it was at Flatts while Mr. Dawley and his company were there that they produced this most remarkable picture. The Highlanders, Sepoys, Artillery-men &c. who appear in the scene are men of The Queen's Regiment whose services were secured for the occasion.
^"RELIEF OF LUCKNOW (Indian Mutiny) - A mute film from The Tornos Studio's Collection". Youtube: tornosindia. CREDITS FOR THIS VIDEO: The Arts and Humanities Research Council, British Film Institute, The Imperial War Museum and the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. (UK). Retrieved May 1, 2022. CONTEXT: The Relief of Lucknow was produced by the Edison Company for the British market. Around 1911, Edison began to make films on specifically European themes to increase sales in Britain. The company also started sending actors and personnel to shoot films in outdoor locations, away from its New Jersey studio (Musser 1995, 49). Serle J. Dawley, director of The Relief, led several of these trips. In the year that he directed The Relief, Dawley shot The Charge of the Light Brigade in Cheyenne, Wyoming, adapting Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem to depict the Battle of Balaclava as a tale of British loyalty and sacrifice. The Relief was shot in Bermuda, which offered the advantages of tropical scenery and the presence of the 2nd Battalion of the "Queen's Own" Regiment, stationed on site
^"HUUMANOPHONE COMPANY. "FOR VALOUR". Beautiful Bermuda Film". The Royal Gazette. City of Hamilton, Pembroke, Bermuda. May 15, 1913. p. 2. This evening the Humanophone Company offer as the central attraction of their moving picture exhibition at the Colonial Opera House the Edison, Bermuda film "For Valour," made while Mr. Dawley and his company were at work last year at the Villa Montecello, Flatts. The story concerns the loves of a pretty Bermuda maiden who finds herself unable to choose between two representatives of the British Army until they are on the eve of departure for the South African War. Her choice falls upon one who eventually turns out to be a mean coward. But the other undertakes to bring him back to her and fulfils the self-imposed task although the coward has won a medal for an act which his rival performed. Eventually the truth, becomes known, and the Bermuda beauty rectifies her mistake. It is a pleasing picture and, the local setting lends it a peculiar interest for Bermudians. There was a large attendance of the lovers of good moving pictures at the Town Hall, St. George's on Monday night to see the splendid exhibition given by the Humanophone Company. There are a large number of young boys and girls who regularly attend the Monday night shows and Master Arthur said on Monday night' that Mr. Kaplan might put a real funny one in for their benefit. The Humanphone Co's. pictures are of a very high class, but a little nonsense now and then is relished by the best of men. Miss Silverstone delighted the audience With her performance at the piano and the people of St. George's appreciate her playing more and more as the season advances.
^"UNCLAIMED LETTERS". The Royal Gazette. City of Hamilton, Pembroke, Bermuda. March 22, 1913. p. 4. At G.P.O., Hamilton, March 19, 1913. Carl W. Achern, Louis Adler, Mrs. I. O. Adon, Carl W. Achorn, S. G. Adams, Miss Nellie Agnew, Mrs. M. C. Alexander, Joe Allgaier, Mrs. C. Anderson, A. H. Anderson, Mrs. Harriett W. Andrews, Miss Allie C. Andrews, [...] Judge W. W. Wells, Thos. Wellman, Congressman Wilder, Mortimer Whitman, Mrs. W. A. Weaker, Miss Cecilia Williams, J. G. Weiss, Mort Whitman, J. W. Williams, Ebenezer Williams, Miss Pearl White, Mrs. A. M. Wood, Joseph Woolsey, Mrs. G. H. Wolcott, Ed Zengle, Mrs. Geo. F. Yeoman, H. O. Young
^"Monkey Folk Here; Nine Lions Coming". The Royal Gazette. City of Hamilton, Pembroke, Bermuda. December 9, 1920. p. 1.
^"Pearl White Boards Ship From Airplane". The Royal Gazette. City of Hamilton, Pembroke, Bermuda. December 23, 1920. p. 1.
^"A BERMUDA FILM". The Royal Gazette. City of Hamilton, Pembroke, Bermuda. August 3, 1921. p. 1. "A Virgin Paradise" is the title of the film taken in Bermuda and in which Pearl White figured so prominently. It is described as a "Story of the jungle and of Civilized Hypocrisy," and will be presented at the Park Theatre today. Aug 3.
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