Over the Hills to the Poor House (1908) (1908)

- Original title
- Over the Hills to the Poor House
- Directed by
- Stanner E.V. Taylor
- Genre
- silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 12 min
- Rating
- 4.8 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This is a short silent film from 1908 based on a poem. It shows a story about aging and poverty, focusing on a person who ends up in a poorhouse.
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What happens
Over the Hill to the Poorhouse è un cortometraggio muto del 1908 diretto da Stanner E.V. Taylor: La poesia di Will Carleton Over the Hill to the Poor House, che ispirò il soggetto del film e che venne adattata in seguito per altre versioni cinematografiche, originariamente era parte della raccolta Farm Ballads pubblicata a New York nel 1873. Il cortometraggio, interpretato da Florence Auer, Edward Dillon e Mack Sennett, venne prodotto dall'American Mutoscope and Biograph Company che lo distribuì in sala il 26 giugno 1908. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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