The Cry of the Children

To see 56 Thanhouser silent films, as well as a treasure of information and history about the Thanhouser film enterprise, please visit http://www.thanhouser.org . They also have a Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/thanhouser . An indictment of the evils of child labor, the film was controversial in its time for its use of actual footage of children employed in a working mill. Based upon a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0002122