Christmas Day in the Workhouse

About Christmas Day in the Workhouse

Christmas Day in the Workhouse is a 1914 British silent film directed by George Pearson for producer G. B. Samuelson, from George R. Sims's famous 1877 ballad. As the guardians and their ladies come to watch the paupers eat their Christmas pudding, one old man, played by Fred Paul, pushes his plate away and tells them how his wife starved to death the Christmas before because the workhouse would give no help outside its walls. Its intertitles quote Sims's verses. It airs on Starlite TV's Silent Pictures channel (CH 12).