Uncle_Tom's_Cabin_(1914_film)

<i>Uncle Tom's Cabin</i> (1914 film)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914 film)

1914 American film

Uncle Tom's Cabin is a 1914 American silent historical drama film directed by William Robert Daly using Vitagraph and starring Sam Lucas, Walter Hitchcock, and Hattie Delaro. It was based upon playwright George L. Aiken's theatrical adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.[1] It was produced at Fort Lee, New Jersey by the newly founded World Film studio. The film is historically notable for being the first movie with a black actor playing a leading role.

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Its PR proclaimed that (unlike earlier versions) it used "real ice, real bloodhounds, real negroes, real actors, real scenes from real life as it really was in the antebellum days".[2]

In 2012, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[3][4][5]

Cast

References

  1. [1]
    Goble (1999), p. 997.
  2. [2]
    Pines, Jim (1975). Blacks in Films. Littlehampton Book Services Ltd. ISBN 978-0289703267.
  3. [3]
    King, Susan (December 19, 2012). "National Film Registry selects 25 films for preservation". Los Angeles Times.
  4. [4]
    "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  5. [5]
    "2012 National Film Registry Picks in A League of Their Own". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-05-14.

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.


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