The Forbidden City is a film released in 1918 starring Norma Talmadge and Thomas Meighan and directed by Sidney Franklin. The plot centers around an inter-racial romance between a Chinese princess (Talmage) and an American (Meighan). When palace officials discover she has fallen pregnant she is sentenced to death. In the latter part of the film Talmadge plays the now adult daughter of the affair, seeking her father in the Philippines.
Another panoramic view, showing the Tai-Ho-Men or Great Harmony Gate, with its surrounding palaces. This scene gives a very adequate idea of the ruin caused by neglect of the magnificent buildings and courts of the Forbidden City during the foreign occupation. Written by AMB Picture Catalogue (1902)
The daughter of a Chinese mandarin is sentenced to death for her secret marriage to an American. Their child, raised in the mandarin's palace, grows up and escapes to seek her father, now a high-ranking official in the Philippines. Written by Jim Beaver
