A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Children’s Hour
(1913) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by W. Eugene Moore Jr. (Eugene Moore)

Cast: Harry Benham [the grandfather], Madeline Fairbanks [a grandchild], Marion Fairbanks [a grandchild], Helen Badgley [a grandchild], Lila CHester [the wife], Riley Chamberlin [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]

Thanhouser Film Corporation production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / Scenario by Lloyd F. Lonergan (Lloyd Lonergan), from a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. / No copyright registration. Released 13 November 1913. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: Prints exist in the George Eastman Museum film archive; and in the film holdings of JEF Films, Incorporated.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 20 October 2013.

References: Tarbox-Lost pp. 127, 279 : Website-IMDb; Website-Thanhouser.