Underplayed Gems

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1910)

Uncle Tom's Cabin poster
Directed by
J. Stuart Blackton
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
25 min
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This is a silent short film from 1910 based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel about slavery in the American South. It follows the suffering of an enslaved man named Tom and the people around him.

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What happens

Uncle Tom's Cabin is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by Vitagraph Studios. The film was adapted by from the 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The first reel was released on July 26, 1910, the same day that the Thanhouser Company released 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 survives in an incomplete form, and has been released in a restored version as a bonus feature of the Kino release of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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