Tenderloin at Night (1899)
This film, Tenderloin at Night (1899), purports to depict a San Francisco barroom; the women in the film are described as prostitutes by Russell Campbell in his book Marked Women: […]
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Shoes (1916)
This is an excerpt from Shoes (1916), directed by Lois Weber, one of the most acclaimed and commercially successful filmmakers of the era. Her films frequently dealt with such controversial […]
Resurrection (1909)
Produced for the Biography Company by D.W. Griffith and starring Florence Lawrence (who has been called the world’s first movie star), this 1909 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s Resurrection which depicts […]
Safe in Hell (1931)
This is an excerpt from the 1931 pre-Code film Safe in Hell starring Dorothy Mackaill. The film tells the story of a prostitute who escapes a murder charge by moving […]
The Inside of the White Slave Traffic (1913)
The Inside of the White Slave Traffic (1913) was produced by sociologist Samuel H. London who produced the film, as its intertitles state, from “facts gathered during his international investigation […]
Children Who Labor (1912)
Written by Edith Browning and produced by the National Child Labor Committee, Children Who Labor (1912) tells the story of an immigrant father forced to allow his children to work […]