Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914 film)
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Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
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World Film | |
Distributed by | World Film |
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Running time | 54 minutes |
Country | United States |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is a 1914 American
World Film
studio. The film is historically notable for being the first movie with a black actor playing a leading role.
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
- Sam Lucas as Uncle Tom
- Walter Hitchcock as George Shelby
- Hattie Delaro as Mrs. Shelby
- Master Abernathy as George Shelby Jr.
- Teresa Michelenaas Eliza
- Irving Cummings as George Harris
- Paul Scardon as Haley
- Marie Eline as Little Eva St. Clair
- Garfield Thompson as St. Clair
- Roy Applegate as Simon Legree
- Boots Wall as Topsy
References
- ^ Goble (1999), p. 997.
- ISBN 978-0289703267.
- ^ King, Susan (December 19, 2012). "National Film Registry selects 25 films for preservation". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
- ^ "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.
External links
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin essay [1] by Stephen Railton at National Film Registry
- Uncle Tom's Cabin at IMDb