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Where Are My Children?

191662 minUnited States
Drama

Synopsis

A district attorney prosecutes cases involving contraception and abortion without realizing how closely they touch his own household. His wife's secret dealings with a doctor intersect with a young servant's pregnancy and a disastrous operation. Public judgments about morality become inseparable from private decisions and unequal social power.

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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
64:19
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsPhillips SmalleyLois Weber

Historical context

Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley's social-problem film reflects contemporary disputes over birth control. Its arguments also draw on eugenic assumptions, making it a historical expression of those debates rather than a neutral guide to reproductive health.

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