Uncle Tom's Cabin (1903)

Directed by

Edwin Stanton Porter

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

19 min

Rating

4.9 of 10 from 34 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This short silent film adapts the story from Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel about slavery in the American South. It follows the lives of enslaved people and their owners, focusing on the character of Uncle Tom.

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What happens

Uncle Tom's Cabin is a 1903 American silent short drama directed by Edwin S. Porter and produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company. The film was adapted from the 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The plot streamlined the actual story to portray the film over the course of 19 minutes. The film was released on 3 August 1903 at the Huber's Fourteenth Street Museum in New-York. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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