Leans Traditional
8.7
Rififi
(1955)
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
The Helping Hand (1908)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
Not Rated
Overview
An impoverished father, with his young son and daughter, begs for food in a marketplace. When a merchant angrily turns them away, their plight attracts the attention of a woman of charity. Calling shame upon the unkind merchant, she buys the poor family some food, talks with the family, and adopts the two children. Marketplace workers, witnessing the scene, give the father work as a sign carrier.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Overview
An impoverished father, with his young son and daughter, begs for food in a marketplace. When a merchant angrily turns them away, their plight attracts the attention of a woman of charity. Calling shame upon the unkind merchant, she buys the poor family some food, talks with the family, and adopts the two children. Marketplace workers, witnessing the scene, give the father work as a sign carrier.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film is a short, early trick film focused entirely on visual spectacle and a magical gag, lacking any discernible political themes or commentary, thus earning a neutral rating.
This early 20th-century silent trick film features traditional casting typical of its era, with no discernible intentional diversity or race/gender swaps. Its narrative is focused purely on visual spectacle and special effects, containing no social commentary or explicit engagement with DEI themes or critiques of traditional identities.
Secondary
Georges Méliès's 1908 silent trick film, 'The Helping Hand,' is a comedic short centered on a mischievous mechanical hand. The film's narrative and character portrayals do not include any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes, resulting in an N/A rating for its depiction.
The film 'The Helping Hand' by Georges Méliès does not contain any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. Its narrative focuses on fantastical visual effects involving a disembodied hand, making the evaluation of transsexual portrayal not applicable.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film "The Helping Hand" (1908) is an original work by Georges Méliès. It does not adapt characters from prior source material, historical records, or previous installments, meaning there are no pre-established canonical genders to be swapped.
This 1908 film by Georges Méliès is an original short, not an adaptation or a depiction of historical figures. There are no pre-existing characters with established racial identities to be altered.
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