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State Theatre 107 Columbus Avenue, Sandusky, OH

From November 14 through November 17, 1928, the motion picture Uncle Tom’s Cabin played at the Schine’s State Theater in Sandusky, Ohio. The theatre had commissioned a truck (supplied by Bahnsen Shows) featuring a large promotional poster to promote the release.

An advertisement which appeared in the November 14, 1928 issue of the Sandusky Register stated that the movie cost two million dollars to produce, and took two years to complete.

The motion picture had a score of star principals, a cast of hundreds, and “three great human dramas of passion, in a story that will live forever.” An extra attraction at the movie was singing and dancing by “Uncle Tom’s Harmony Boys.”

The cost for the matinee show was twenty five cents for adults and fifteen cents for children. Evening performances cost forty cents for adults and twenty cents for children. - Posted by Sandusky Library Archives Research Center.

Contributed by Greg Lynch -