page_title: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1910 film)
section_title: Production
hierarchical_section_title: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1910 film) / Production
caption_attribution_description: English: Another film still from Uncle Tom's Cabin by the Thanhouser Company.
context_page_description: Uncle Tom's Cabin is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company. The film was adapted by from the 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The plot of the Thanhouser production streamlined the actual story to portray the film over the course of a single reel. The film was released on July 26, 1910, on the same day that Vitagraph released the first reel of 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 garnered mixed, but mostly positive reception in trade publications. The film is presumed lost.
context_section_description: The 1852 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. The writer of the adapted scenario is unknown, but it was most likely Lloyd Lonergan. He was an experienced newspaperman employed by The New York Evening World while writing scripts for the Thanhouser productions. The director of the film was Barry O'Neil, whose real name was Thomas J. McCarthy. He would direct many important Thanhouser pictures, including its first two-reeler, Romeo and Juliet.
  Marie Eline, popularly known as "The Thanhouser Kid" played the role of Little Eva. Marie Eline would also play this role in the five-reel World Film Corporation version of Uncle Tom's Cabin, released on August 10, 1914. The role of Eliza was played by Anna Rosemond, one of two leading ladies of the Thanhouser company in this era. Frank H. Crane, cast in the role of Tom, was a leading male actor of the company. Crane was also involved in the very beginnings of the Thanhouser Company and would later become a director at Thanhouser. Surviving film stills, from advertisements in Moving Picture World, show Crane in blackface in order to portray the part of Uncle Tom. The other players in the production are uncredited because their identities are unknown. Bowers states that most of the credits are fragmentary for 1910 Thanhouser productions. The cast and credits of this film are sometimes erroneously given because of confusion with other films of the same name. Robert K. Klepper, Silent Films, 1877-1996: A Critical Guide to 646 Movies, misidentifies the Thanhouser release as "Thanhouser/Minot" and lists the director as William Robert Daly. The 1914 Minot Films Inc. release was not produced by Thanhouser.
caption: Another surviving film still
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