The 3 July 1915 Moving Picture World reported that Alan Dwan, Mary Pickford, and her company would "enact a feature film story en route from California to New York...so constructed that the plot begins in the west and terminates in New York, where the subsequent scenes will be produced." Then they would begin on a "tenement" film called Miss Jinny, written by Edith Bernard Delano, who also wrote Pickford's Rags (1915, see entry). It is undetermined whether these projects were scrapped or evolved into the original 1915 version of The Foundling.
       According to press releases sent to the major trade magazines and published in their 28 August 1915 issues, Alan Dwan's The Foundling was scheduled to open on 6 September 1915 with a supporting cast that included Frank Mills, Harry Ham, Gerturde Norman, Donald Crisp, and Edith Chapman. However, the film was accidentally destroyed, and the studio had to start from scratch. Dwan was replaced by John B. O'Brien, and cast members were changed. Hence the two copyrights.
       The 26 November 1915 Variety reported that Pickford was finishing up The Foundling, which was her last picture under her existing contract with Famous Players. The 27 November 1915 Moving Picture World reported that the film would open on 20 December, and two weeks later the same magazine noted another push-back to 27 December. However, The Foundling actually opened in early 1916.
       This was the only film copyrighted by the Famous Players-Mary Pickford Co., which was incorporated in January 1915. It was rumored in Moving Picture World that the company may have been formed to distribute Mary Pickford's films as a distinct series of releases.
       According to modern sources, H. J. Siddons was the cameraman on this production.
       The scheduled 20 Jan 1916 release date was listed in the 1 Jan 1916 Motion Picture News.
       According to the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, this film is extant.