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The Dragon Painter is a 1919 American silent romantic drama film. It is based on the novel of the same name, written by Mary McNeil Fenollosa. It stars Sessue Hayakawa as a young painter who believes that his fiancée (played by Hayakawa's wife Tsuru Aoki), is a princess who has been captured and turned into a dragon. It was directed by William Worthington and filmed in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, and in the Japanese Tea Garden in Coronado, California.

The Dragon Painter was restored in 1988 by the American Film Institute with the George Eastman Museum and MoMA. In 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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