A Daughter of the Gods
Hollywood's first million-dollar spectacle filled Jamaican locations with mermaids, armies and Annette Kellerman, yet no known moving print survives.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Officially Gone
- Peak stage
- general availability
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A formally released silent fantasy feature directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Australian swimmer Annette Kellerman.
The three-hour production used aquatic performance, fantasy creatures and enormous sets to stage a romantic fairy tale.
Existence timeline
Herbert Brenon mounts the expensive aquatic fantasy.
The feature begins its public theatrical life.
Audiences encounter Kellerman's most elaborate film.
No circulating copy remains known.
Archives document the work through paper and still material.
NFSA images hint at a spectacle that cannot be screened.
Why it ended
The widely exhibited feature disappeared from distribution and no complete or fragmentary print has been located in an archive.
Last confirmed trace
The National Film and Sound Archive preserves publicity images and a later documentary record of the otherwise lost film.
What it left behind
Its scale, budget and Kellerman's performance make the absence a major gap in both American and Australian screen history.
How we classified it
The archive unit reached normal public release or operation and is no longer obtainable in its original public form.
Verified normal public availability maps to 100 under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.