A Child of the Ghetto(1910)

movie - first aired/released 1910-06-06 - 16 min - audience 4.5

Drama

Directed by D.W. Griffith

After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shirts to the factory owner, the owner's son steals some money and Ruth is accused of the crime. She flees the ghetto of New York's Lower East Side and hides in the country where she meets a young farmer.