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mpernick
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The Black Stork (1917)
Book about the film
7 February 2006 - 19 out of 19 users found this review helpful.
Those interested in knowing more about this film, and many related mostly silent-era films on eugenics, euthanasia, and social hygiene, should see my book, The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of 'Defective' Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures since 1915, published in paperback by Oxford University Press.
I discovered and obtained grant funds to preserve the only surviving viewable print of the film, in a 1927 re-release, titled Are You Fit to Marry.
The film is a uniquely valuable historical document, revealing that an American doctor publicly allowed infants to die because he judged them hereditarily unfit. However, be forewarned, it is not great cinema.
--Martin S. Pernick, University of Michigan
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