Pearl of the Army

{{short description|1916 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Pearl of the Army

| image = Pearl of the Army 1916 lanternslide.jpg

| caption = Lantern slide

| director = Edward José

| producer = Astra Film Corp

| writer = Guy McConnell

| starring = Pearl White
Ralph Kellard

| distributor = Pathé Exchange
Astra Films

| released = {{film date|1916|12|3}}

| runtime = 15 episodes

| country = United States

| language = Silent with English intertitles

}}

File:Pearl of the Army ad.jpg

Pearl of the Army is a 1916 American silent film serial directed by Edward José. The Pathé-Astra Film Corp movie was made when many early film studio and film producers in America's first motion picture industry were based in New Jersey's Hudson River towns, particularly Fort Lee.{{Cite book| last = Koszarski | first = Richard | title = Fort Lee: The Film Town | place = Rome, Italy | publisher = John Libbey Publishing -CIC srl | year = 2004 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5w0r8YKan04C&q=Fort+Lee:+the+film+town+Door+Richard+Koszarski | isbn= 0-86196-653-8 }}{{Cite web | title = Studios and Films | publisher = Fort Lee Film Commission | url = http://www.fortleefilm.org/studios.html | access-date = May 30, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181020130551/http://fortleefilm.org/studios.html | archive-date = October 20, 2018 | url-status = dead }}{{Cite book| last = Fort Lee Film Commission | title = Fort Lee Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry | publisher = Arcadia Publishing | year = 2006 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ViR3b72xkK0C&q=Fort+Lee+Birthplace+of+the+Motion+Picture+Industry | isbn = 0-7385-4501-5 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/P/PearlOfTheArmy1916.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: Pearl of the Army |access-date=September 19, 2016|work=Silent Era}} Prints and/or fragments were found in the Dawson Film Find in 1978.{{cite web |url=https://thebioscope.net/2007/08/27/lost-and-found-no-2-dawson-city/ |title=Lost and Found no. 2 – Dawson City |access-date=September 19, 2016|work=The Bioscope|date=August 27, 2007 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.yukon-news.com/letters-opinions/new-documentary-links-dawson-city-to-hollywood/ |title=New documentary links Dawson City to Hollywood |work=Yukon News |date=October 21, 2016 |access-date=March 3, 2022}}