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* The Cry of the Children, selected in 2011 by the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Film Registry, which recognizes films for their cultural, historical and aesthetic significance.

The Film Preservation Board described this two-reel melodrama from 1912, part of which was filmed in a working textile mill, as a " key work " in relation to the U. S. movement for child labor reform in the years before World War I.

According to the Film Preservation Board, an " influential critic of the time " called it " the boldest, most timely and most effective appeal for the stamping out of the cruelest of all social abuses.