My limited understanding is that Harriet Beecher Stowe's book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," was a watershed event of its era. Only the Bible sold more copies. It served as a rallying cry for the abolitionists. Thanks for making it available here for study and educational purposes. Personally, I came to catch a glimpse of an uncredited extra, Mary Nolan. Formerly she was a top NYC artists' model, Ziegfield girl, and then Hollywood star with a tragic life story. `

One of the actresses in this is reportedly Harriet Quimby, a friend of DW's wife who was a journalist and a few years later the first woman to fly solo across the English channel. She also wrote scenarios for DW including this film, I believe. Tricky to ID her due to low resolution of film in 1909.

Can’t believe this is a hundred years old. 💯

5:08 -- Enter Lionel Barrymore.

Where credit is due: A DeMille Pictures production, distributed by Producers Distributing Corporation. Directed by Donald Crisp. Bessie Love was moonlighting from MGM when she made this one.

Olive Thomas. Lost far too soon (at 25) and far too tragically. What might have been had she been able to stay in the business and continued on. Colleen Moore, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks; all of them and more, at least owe some inspiration for their roles to Olive Thomas. And she was a keeper.

This is scary

Awesome direct/misdirect at 7:17 when smoke comes in from the curtains at the same time the guy tries to "roofie" the girl at the table.

Its not that God doesn't hear our prayers as WE mortals assume, its that we mortals don't like his timing as to when and how He answers them. The pain, stress and agony we bestow upon ourselves being in such a rush to have the "problem" over and our prayer answered.

And how did they know they were pregnant back then?! 😂😂😂

It cracks me up to watch these with scenes like the carnival or in others when there were a huge leaving of employees after a day of work and realize just how many people were already on earth😂😂

Olive right up there with Clara Bow 🥰❤️❤️❤️❤️

Although, it was the first film produced by Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, they didn’t use their famous mascot initially.

I know the comments here are old but for anyone who finds this film after me with the same questions as other commenters heres a couple of fun facts about this film. It was orginally a poem made in the late 1800s about a girl he knew named 'Allie', the original title being "The Elf-Child", in it's third printing he changed the name to, "Little Orphant Allie". The word Orphant is just a slang way of saying orphan so that people would read it better or in the accent the author spoke in (I assume, idk old poems have weird words). When the author sent it in to get printed, they made an error when editing it, turning it into "Little Orphant Annie" which this film is based on. The orginal poem is what inspired the Little Orphan Annie comics during the Great Depression, and those comics would later turn into/ inspire a radio show, books, a movie in the 30s, a broadway musical, and multiple movie adaptations of the musical. I know its kind of a lot but it's a very cool rabbit hole to get sucked into. Also the author of 'Little Orphant Annie' is also the orginator of Raggetty Anne and Andy :).

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Here is Snub Pollard in one of his funniest silent shorts directed by Charley Chase in 1923. The magnet car scenes are rib tickling hilarious.

Podo movie..

Great movie .Is the movie in the "public domain"?

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Great back flip up against the wall 😂 Great clip!

LON CHANEY SR is the original dark psychopath. He plays the darkest twisted and tormented characters and inevitably, in every one, he sees the mistakes and errors and turns his life around to good. This is a perfect 10 - don't know HOW it gets a 7.5 rating because it's twisted in every way imaginable - right down to peddling the piano! Great movie!!! Thank you for the upload!

They didn't have " BLACK !!! " actors in those days , so they painted them " BLACK ☻ " 💬

This was very funny.😊 Really enjoyed all the " business ".😊 Laughing out loud often. Many Thanks.👍. 11 October, 2024. 🇬🇧😊💙🦉📖🇬🇧

And delighted Alec Francis in it, too!

Sydney Chaplin in his most celebrated photoplay!

Watching these movies I try to visualise watching it back then. And then to imagine how the world in 1920 was just our world, existence itself at a different time, every bit as real with countless people having hopes and dreams. And the world we now live in some future long-off fantasy. Along with that lots of normal and ordinary experiences like waking up from a weird dream to yawning while reading a book to having a headache and feeling irritable as a result. Putting yourself in that time is fascinating to contemplate and, at least I find, can give you a different perspective when watching old movies, i.e. by trying to imagine this when it was new and cutting-edge.

I love watching silent films if they're good. But I can't watch one really very well if there's no music, it just doesn't hold my attention

Wait this isn’t Itchy and Scratchy

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Just learned of this pretty lady. Had to find one of her movies

Fairbanks was a good friend to Rudolph Valentino.😊

Olive Thomas was a beautiful woman 😎

From 1919, now in the public domain. You get Lon Chaney and Wallace Beery as younger actors before the sound age. Jack Holt made his name as an action star for many years, mostly at Columbia, and in various roles after leaving there.

The sounds not working

Too bad there's no music.

Wait a minute.....I've forgotten I must also watch "Virturous Sinners" after I've watched this one. What an actor!

I have one more Valentino film to watch. "The Adventuress." He starred in 14 films. He did a total of 36 films from which 17 are lost, and 19 survived. 🎬 😊

🤓Based on a true story: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr. "In 1916, Midgley began working at General Motors. In December 1921, while working under the direction of Charles Kettering at Dayton Research Laboratories, a subsidiary of General Motors, he discovered (after discarding tellurium due to the difficult-to-eradicate smell) that the addition of tetraethyllead (TEL) to gasoline prevented knocking in internal combustion engines.[6] The company named the substance "Ethyl", avoiding all mention of lead in reports and advertising." 🤔This movie probably inspired the inventor's ugly fate: "In 1940, at the age of 51, Midgley contracted polio and was left severely disabled. He devised an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys to lift himself out of bed." 😲

Was really a sad ending for her how she died 😢

Don't know anything about these actors...am just wondering how they ended up in the house, I mean county Hospital, and for WHAT? Because of a rock in the dirt road?...did I blink & miss something??

Kinda annoying until the cute ending...

Watching an old movie like this is uplifting to me. The contemporary stuff is pretty scary, and I don't mean in a good way...😮

Excellent film. 😊

Back then that was the good life now today everything is too expensive to buy thats how the Roman empire fell spend money like its going out of style and back then its always the damn politicians Hegel once said history teaches us that man learns nothing from history.

Back then in Hollywood they make some wonderful movies today the celbreties are overpaid there was a writer's strike last summer and artificial intelligence is going to control everything in society this year possibly in my lifetime and now today everything is going out of business or soon will be

I like Bessie Love movies!

Got some "wings" vibes from this Thx for the upload/🇸🇪

My parents turned 10 years old in 1926