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{en} The Cry of the Children [1] (USA, 1912), directed by George Nichols, starring Marie Eline, Ethel Wright, and James Cruze. <silent; 28 min.>
Directed by George O. Nichols for the Thanhouser Film Corporation. Based on the 1843 social-protest poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, this powerful pre-WWI progressive melodrama serves as an unsparing indictment of industrial child labor in America. The narrative casts six-year-old studio mainstay Marie Eline as Alice, a vibrant young girl forced into grueling labor inside a massive textile mill to support her family, leading to her physical degeneration and tragic death. The production is a monumental milestone in film history for blending fictional staging with raw, unedited documentary footage of actual child laborers operating heavy factory machinery. Eline's emotionally raw, heartbreaking performance anchored the film's sociopolitical argument, leading to its selection for the National Film Registry in 2011. <EXTANT; online YES; music YES>
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