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Little Red Riding Hood
(1911) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by (unknown)

Cast: Eva Prout [Little Red Riding Hood], Tom Shirley [the boy woodsman]

Essanay Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / From the fairy tale “Le Petit chaperon rouge” (Little Red Riding Hood) by Charles Perrault. / Released 30 November 1911. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Fantasy.

Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Little Riding Hood leaves home with a basket of goodies for grandmother, who lives on the other side of the big woods. On her way she meets the wolf, who proposes a race between them to grandmother’s hut. The wolf arrives first, of course, and after chucking grandmother under the bed, gets into the old lady’s nightclothes and waits for Little Red Riding Hood. He is about to eat the little girl when the woodmen arrive and slay him.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 9 November 2022.

References: Blum-Silent p. 24 : Website-IMDb.

 
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