Uncle Tom's Cabin (1910)
25m
Running Time
July 26, 1910Release Date
Plot.
The incidents of this story are some of those preceding and leading up to the Civil War in 1861 and the Declaration of Emancipation. The central figure in the drama is Uncle Tom, a slave initially in the possession of the Shelbys of Kentucky. A 1927 re-release of this film cut the original runtime in half, and in its extant, fragmentary state, it runs 14 minutes.
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Cast & Crew.
Florence Turner
Topsy
Mary Fuller
Eliza
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Novel
Edwin R. Phillips
Uncle Tom
J. Stuart Blackton
Director
Flora Finch
Ophelia St. Clare
Genevieve Tobin
Eva
Carlyle Blackwell
Shelby
Elsie Albert
Emmiline the quadroon slave
Frank Alexander
Arthur Shelby
Julia Arthur
Actress
Eugene Mullin
Writer
Rollin S. Sturgeon
Writer
Details.
This Movie Is About.
slavery
silent film
escaped slave
partially lost film
runaway slave
Wiki.
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by Vitagraph Studios. The film was adapted by from the 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The first reel was released on July 26, 1910, the same day that the Thanhouser Company released their own three-reel version of Uncle Tom's Cabin. This prompted the Thanhouser Company to advertise against the Vitagraph film by referring to the other as being overly drawn out.
The film survives in an incomplete form, and has been released in a restored version as a bonus feature of the Kino release of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927).