Ida's Christmas

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Channel: Eye Filmmuseum · 2015 · Film & Animation

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This film is from the Eye Filmmuseum collection. Many films in this collection contain outdated information or offensive language/images. While this is problematic, we do not wish to erase these films from (film) history. As a film museum, we show films as much as possible in their original form.

 Director: Van Dyke Brooke | Production Country: United States | Year: 1912 | Production Company: Vitagraph Company of America (United States) | FLM34881 | Film from the collection of Eye (Amsterdam) - https://www.eyefilm.nl/

A melodrama about a girl who wants a doll for Christmas. Her parents are too poor, but thanks to her honesty, she eventually does get the doll from the rich people her mother works for. 

Cast: John Bunny, Dolores Costello, Charles Edwards, Rose Tapley, Julia Swayne Gordon, Hazel Neason.


This film is from the Jean Desmet Collection at EYE. 
Jean Desmet (1875-1956) was one of the leading cinema operators and film distributors in the Netherlands from 1907 – 1916. The Jean Desmet Collection at EYE has more than 900 films, and is included UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.
https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/collection/collections/film/film-files/de-jaren-twintig-en-dertig/file-desmet


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