The Voice of the Violin (film)

The Voice of the Violin
Directed byD. W. Griffith
Written byD. W. Griffith
Produced byBiograph Company
Starring
CinematographyG. W. Bitzer, Arthur Marvin
Distributed byBiograph Company
Release date
  • March 18, 1909 (1909-03-18)
Running time
16 minutes
CountriesUnited States, filmed in West 12th Street, Manhattan, New York, USA
LanguageSilent

The Voice of the Violin is a 1909 short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. It is preserved from a paper print at the Library of Congress and a 35 mm print at the George Eastman Museum. Arthur V. Johnson is a musician, who makes a living with classes of violin. He and his student Marion Leonard like each other a lot, but she rejects him for being too poor for her. He then decides to join a communist group and fight for equality of all. Right away, he draws a lot to plant the next bomb in a rich man's house. With the plot under way, he realizes that this is the home of his love interest, and he desperately tries to prevent the bomb from exploding.