Miss Jerry

Miss Jerry is an 1894 American feature-length black-and-white silent pre-film "Picture Play" written and produced by Alexander Black and starring Blanche Bayliss.

Miss Jerry was not a film, but a series of posed magic lantern slides projected onto a screen with a dissolving stereopticon, accompanied by narration and music, making it the first example of a feature-length dramatic fiction on screen.

[2] Aware of the progress made by Eadweard Muybridge and other photographers towards the illusion of motion, Black instead set out to present a convincing narrative story in front of an audience, using still photography to present fiction in a convincing way, rather than a perfect illusion of motion.

In his 1926 history of the movies, A Million and One Nights the author Terry Ramsaye says: No intact set of slides for Miss Jerry is known to exist.

After finding out that her father is suffering financial problems, Jerry Holbrook decides to start a career in journalism in the heart of New York City.