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The Helping Hand (1908 French film)
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Wikipedia article
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| image = File:Pour les P'tiots.jpg
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| caption = Publicity still for the film
| director = Georges Mlis
| starring =
| studio = Star Film Company
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| country = France
| language = Silent
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'The Helping Hand' (, literally "For the Little Ones") was a 1908 French short silent film by Georges Mlis.
Plot
An impoverished father, with his young son and daughter, begs for food in a marketplace. When a merchant angrily turns them away, their plight attracts the attention of a woman of charity. Calling shame upon the unkind merchant, she buys the poor family some food, talks with the family, and adopts the two children. Marketplace workers, witnessing the scene, give the father work as a sign carrier.
Release
'The Helping Hand' was sold by Mlis's Star Film Company and is numbered 13261328 in its catalogues. The American trade periodical 'The Moving Picture World', in a brief notice about some of Mlis' films, praised 'The Helping Hand' for offering "a wholesome lesson of charity."
The film is currently presumed lost.
References
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