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Where Are My Children
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley

Cast: Tyrone Power [Richard Walton], Helen Riaume [Mrs. Walton], Marie Walcamp [Mrs. Brandt], Cora Drew [Walton’s housekeeper], René Rogers [Lillian, her daughter], A.D. Blake [Roger], Juan De La Cruz [Doctor Malfit], C. Norman Hammond [Doctor Homer], William J. Hope [the Eugenic husband], Marjorie Blynn [the Eugenic wife], William Haben [Doctor Gilding]

Lois Weber Productions production; distributed on State Rights basis by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [A Universal Special Feature]. / Produced by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley. Scenario by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley, from a screen story by L. Payton (Lucy Payton) and F. Hall (Franklyn Hall). Assistant director, Rex E. Hodge. Cinematography by Al Siegler (Allen G. Siegler) and Stephen S. Norton. / © 27 April 1916 by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [LP8170]. Released May 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: The Illborn.

Drama: Social.

Synopsis: Synopses available in AFI-F1 n. F1.4904, and Hirschhorn-Universal p. 20.

Survival status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive (George Kleine collection) [incomplete 35mm positive (three reels); in the private film collection of Jan Zaalberg [incomplete 35mm positive (Dutch-language version)]; and in private film collections [16mm reduction positives].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Law: District attorneys - Medical: Birth control, Doctors, Procedures (Abortion)

Listing updated: 19 February 2024.

References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F1 n. F1.4904; Ball-Shakespeare pp. 354, 391; Brownlow-Behind p. xxii; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 20; Sloan-Loud pp. 89-92, 98h, 152; Vermilye-Twenties p. 50 : Documentary-Slide.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.

 
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