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The Love of an Island Maid was released on May 13, 1912
This is one of the earliest movies filmed on California's Santa Catalina Island.
Catalina is the name of an island maiden who sells seashells down by the seashore. While doing so, she is attracted to a visiting yachtsman. He flirts with her and this causes problems with her island boyfriend. The guys tussle in the sea, Catalina joins the tussle, and sends the boyfriend to the bottom. She then decides she doesn't want the yachtsman either, and goes back to selling seashells down by the seashore.
No copies of this one-reel movie are known to exist.