The Death of Poor Joe explained
| The Death of Poor Joe |
| Director: | George Albert Smith |
| Starring: | Laura Bayley
Tom Green |
| Distributor: | Warwick Trading Company |
| Runtime: | One minute[1] |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | Silent |
The Death of Poor Joe is a 1901 British short silent drama film, directed by George Albert Smith, which features the director's wife Laura Bayley as Joe, a child street-sweeper who dies of disease on the street in the arms of a policeman.[2] The film, which went on release in March 1901, takes its name from a famous photograph posed by Oscar Rejlander after an episode in Charles Dickens' 1853 novel Bleak House, and is the oldest known surviving film featuring a Dickens character.[3] [4]
The film was discovered in 2012 by British Film Institute curator Bryony Dixon, after it was believed to have been lost since 1954.[5] [6] Until the discovery, the previous oldest known Dickens film was Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost, released in November 1901.[7]
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- News: World's oldest Charles Dickens film discovered . 9 March 2012 . The Guardian . London . 9 March 2012.
- News: First Charles Dickens film found 111 years after it was made . https://web.archive.org/web/20120309150638/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/charles-dickens/9132829/First-Charles-Dickens-film-found-111-years-after-it-was-made.html . dead . 9 March 2012 . 9 March 2012 . The Telegraph . London . Florence . Waters . 9 March 2012.
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- News: Earliest Charles Dickens film uncovered . 9 March 2012 . BBC News . 9 March 2012.
- Web site: Charles Dickens film The Death of Poor Joe found - oldest ever at 111 yrs . 9 March 2012 . Metro.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20140102190837/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/44516 The Death of Poor Joe
- News: BFI's Bryony Dixon stumbles across "The Death Of Poor Joe," a character from Charles Dickens' "Bleak House." . 9 March 2012 . Hollywood Reporter . Stuart . Kemp.
