Uncle Tom's Cabin (1910)

Directed by

Barry O'Neil

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a silent short film adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel about enslaved people in the 19th century American South. It focuses on the story of Uncle Tom and other characters as they endure hardship and cruelty. The film compresses the novel's plot into a single reel.

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What happens

Uncle Tom's Cabin is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company. The film was adapted by from the 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The plot of the Thanhouser production streamlined the actual story to portray the film over the course of a single reel. The film was released on July 26, 1910, on the same day that Vitagraph released the first reel of their own three reel version of Uncle Tom's Cabin. This prompted the Thanhouser Company to advertise against the Vitagraph film by referring to the other as being overly drawn out. The film garnered mixed, but mostly positive reception in trade publications. The film is presumed lost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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