# The Cry of the Children 1912 George Nichols Elizabeth Barrett Browning Edwin Thanhouser

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

- Kind: Short
- Year: 1912
- Runtime: 25 min
- By: George Nichols
- Genres: Children's
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Cry_of_the_Children_1912_George_Nichols_Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning_Edwin_Thanhouser.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: George Nichols
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/commons/36820429?play=1)