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The New York Times
Unsigned Review
23 August 1914

Notes Written on the Screen

  At the New York Theatre, beginning Monday matinée, William Morris, by arrangement with the Messrs. Shubert and the World’s Film Corporation, will present for the first time the motion picture adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” The film presentation of the story is in five parts, and the work of the directors in evolving the scenario was concerned more with the book itself than with the dramatized version. Four hundred scenes have been utilized in the making of the picture, and the natural backgrounds of cotton plantations, bayous, the Ohio River, and other scenes of the action of the story have been used in the making of the film. Mary Elino, a child actress, who portrays the role of Little Eva, has been engaged to appear in person at each performance and will deliver a short prologue. Sam Lucas, now in his seventy-first year, enacts the part of Uncle Tom, while Irving Cummings appears as Harris. The thrilling scenes of Eliza crossing the river on blocks of ice pursued by a pack of bloodhounds was photographed in the frozen Ohio River. A musical score has been arranged by Will Marion Cooks and will be interpreted by an augmented orchestra.