Wikisource:WikiProject Film/Drafts/Archives/The Cry of the Children (film)

User: M-le-mot-dit

File: The Cry of the Children.webm

Author: George Nichols

Publisher: Thanhouser Company

Year: 1912

PD: PD/US|1951|film=yes

Note: A 1912 American short drama film, based on the poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, about child labor. In 2011, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.

Cat: Drama film, Silent film

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00:14

Approved by
Pennsylvania State Board
of Censors

J. Louis Breitinger
Chairman.

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00:16

"Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers!
Ere the sorrow comes with years?"

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00:45

"The young lambs are bleating in the meadow"

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00:54

"The young Birds are chirping in the nest"

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01:03

"But the young, young, children—they are weeping
In the country of the free!"

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01:21

The day begins at the mill workers' home

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05:14

Little Alice, their one ray of sunshine, is to be kept free from the shadow of the factory

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08:01

At the mill owner's home

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09:08

OFFICES

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MILL
AND
YARD

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10:27

Later that day

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11:37

"O ye wheels—stop! be silent for to-day!"

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12:29

Attracted by the joyous child, the mill owner's wife offers to adopt her

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14:09

Another effort is made to induce the mill workers to part with their child

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15:34

A new pet replaces little Alice in the wife's affections

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16:15

The mill workers strike for a living wage

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17:45

After months of privation

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18:23

The victors

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18:44

Starvation Will Soon
Force Mill Workers
to Abandon Strike

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Large Families Endure Many
Hardships--Children Cry
for Bread

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18:58

The vanquished

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19:16

Little Alice becomes a worker in her mother's stead

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21:19

"All day she drives the wheels of iron"

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21:43

Alice, to aid her family, is now willing to be adopted

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22:04

Sadly changed by want and toil, little Alice is no longer desired

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23:20

"'It is good when it happens,' say the children,
'That we die before our time'"

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24:38

"'From the sleep wherein she lieth, none will wake her,
Crying, 'Get up, little Alice! it is day!'"

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26:47

"But the child's sob in the silence curses deeper
Than the strong man in his wrath"