Chelsea 7750 Explained

Chelsea 7750
Director:	J. Searle Dawley
Producer:	Adolph Zukor Daniel Frohman
Starring:	Henry E. Dixey Laura Sawyer
Cinematography:	H. Lyman Broening
Distributor:	State's Rights
Runtime:	4 reels
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent (English intertitles)

Chelsea 7750 is a surviving 1913 American silent crime drama film directed by J. Searle Dawley and starring Henry E. Dixey (from the stage), Laura Sawyer, and House Peters. It was the fourth of six "Kate Kirby's Cases" detective stories made in 1913, the first produced by the Famous Players Film Company after Dawley and Sawyer left Edison for Famous Players.^{[1] [2]}

Cast

• Henry E. Dixey as Detective Kirby
• Laura Sawyer as Kirby's Daughter
• House Peters as Professor Grimble
• Martin Faust as Grimble's son

Preservation status

A print is held by the BFI National Film and Television Archive, London.^[3]

Kate Kirby's cases

• The Diamond Crown. (Edison – 1913)
• On the Broad Stairway. (Edison – 1913)
• The Substitute Stenographer. (Edison – 1913)
• Chelsea 7750. (Famous Players - 1913)
• An Hour Before Dawn. (Famous Players - 1913)
• The Port of Doom. (Famous Players - 1913)

Notes and References

1. http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/C/ChelseaSevenSevenFiveZ1913.html Progressive Silent Film List: Chelsea 7750
2. Web site: Detail view of Movies Page. www.afi.com. 28 June 2017.
3. http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.229/default.html The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Chelsea 7750