Helen Gibson is helping the Treasury men track down some counterfeiters, but she has plenty of time to fight a man in a moving car and ride a motorcycle to stop a moving train in this exciting episode of THE HAZARDS OF HELEN.
THE HAZARDS OF HELEN was a serial that had begun in 1914, starring Helen Holmes. After a year of weekly episodes, she left, to be replaced by Helen Gibson. To call it a serial is a bit of a misnomer. More accurately, it was a series of 12-minute short films about the derrring-do of Helen -- whatever her last name was. Over the course of 119 episodes, she did a lot of stuff that looks awfully dangerous. That's because in the 1910s, serials were not Saturday morning matinee fare for kids, but part of a regular program that kept the adults coming in. There were serial queens, like Pearl White, and they did all sorts of dangerous stunts.... although sometimes they used stunt men.
THE HAZARDS OF HELEN was a serial that had begun in 1914, starring Helen Holmes. After a year of weekly episodes, she left, to be replaced by Helen Gibson. To call it a serial is a bit of a misnomer. More accurately, it was a series of 12-minute short films about the derrring-do of Helen -- whatever her last name was. Over the course of 119 episodes, she did a lot of stuff that looks awfully dangerous. That's because in the 1910s, serials were not Saturday morning matinee fare for kids, but part of a regular program that kept the adults coming in. There were serial queens, like Pearl White, and they did all sorts of dangerous stunts.... although sometimes they used stunt men.
