The Death of Poor Joe

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. 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.Vanessa Toulmin, Simon Popple, Visual delights two: exhibition and reception, Publisher John Libbey Eurotext, 2005, , 9780861966578, 266 pages, page 77

The film was discovered in 2012 by British Film Institute curator Bryony Dixon, after it was believed to have been lost since 1954.The Death of Poor Joe in the BFI Film & TV Database Until the discovery, the previous oldest known Dickens film was Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost, released in November 1901.

Cast Laura Bayley as Joe Tom Green as the policeman

The Death of Poor Joe

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