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Bebe Daniels chased newsreel scoops across Paramount's silent comedy, but the feature now survives only through records, reviews and publicity images.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Officially Gone
- Peak stage
- general availability
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A formally released silent comedy-drama directed by Clarence Badger and starring Bebe Daniels as a newsreel camera operator.
Pat Clancy competes for dangerous assignments and professional recognition while pursuing a story involving a visiting maharajah.
Existence timeline
Paramount starts production at its Hollywood studio.
Trade publications describe the newsreel comedy before release.
The feature begins its public theatrical life.
Paramount distributes the seven-reel silent film.
No known archive secures a surviving copy.
The National Film Preservation Board includes the film on its lost-feature list.
Why it ended
No archival holding of the released feature is known, and the National Film Preservation Board lists it among lost American silent films.
Last confirmed trace
The AFI production file, contemporary reviews, lobby cards and newspaper advertisements preserve evidence of the missing film.
What it left behind
Its disappearance removes a rare silent-era feature built around a woman operating a newsreel camera rather than merely appearing before one.
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.