By Sean Axmaker
The Cry of Children
Brief Synopsis
Factory owners force children to slave as unskilled labor.
Cast & Crew
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George Nichols
Director
Marie Eline
Ethel Wright
James Cruze
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Writer
Film Details
Genre
Short
Drama
Silent
Release Date
1912
Technical Specs
Duration
12m
Synopsis
Factory owners force children to slave as unskilled labor.
Director
George Nichols
Director
Film Details
Genre
Short
Drama
Silent
Release Date
1912
Technical Specs
Duration
12m
Articles
The Cry of the Children -
A social drama inspired by the poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Cry of the Children (1912) addressed child labor in American factories. Thanhouser was proud of the film, which featured scenes of moppets working under harsh conditions shot in a real factory. One critic at "The Moving Picture World" called it "The boldest, most timely and most effective appeal for the stamping out of the cruelest of all social abuses...." Selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
By Sean Axmaker
By Sean Axmaker
The Cry of the Children -
A social drama inspired by the poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Cry of the Children (1912) addressed child labor in American factories. Thanhouser was proud of the film, which featured scenes of moppets working under harsh conditions shot in a real factory. One critic at "The Moving Picture World" called it "The boldest, most timely and most effective appeal for the stamping out of the cruelest of all social abuses...." Selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. By Sean Axmaker
