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 a child street-sweeper who dies of disease on the street in the arms of a policeman.
The film takes its name from a famous photograph posed by Oscar Rejlander after an episode in Charles Dickens' Bleak House and is the oldest known surviving film featuring a Dickens character. The film was discovered by British Film Institute curator Bryony Dixon, after it was believed to have been lost since 1954.
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