[4k, 60fps, colorized] (1916) Shoes (excerpts), by Lois Weber.

Shoes is a 1916 silent film drama directed by Lois Weber and starring Mary MacLaren. Eva Mayer (Mary MacLaren) works in a five-and-dime store for five dollars a week. That meager salary must solely support her family of two parents and three sisters because her father (Harry Griffith) prefers to lie in bed reading, smoking his pipe, and drinking pails of beer rather than looking for work. Eva desperately needs new shoes. The only pair she has are literally falling to pieces with soles that have large holes, so large in fact that she must insert pieces of cardboard inside her shoes to protect her feet. Finally, Eva decides to sleep with Charlie (William V. Mong), a local cabaret singer, in exchange for money. She buys new shoes but learns the same day that her father has finally secured a job, at least temporary work. “This flower had not had a fair chance to bloom in the garden of life. The worm of poverty had entered the folded bud and spoiled it“. —Intertitle from Shoes Music: Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky Join as a member to support this channel: