The "Teddy" Bears is a 1907 American silent film directed by Edwin S. Porter and Wallace McCutcheon, and produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company starting as the fairy tale Goldilocks and ending as a political satire of United States President Theodore Roosevelt.
Sime Silverman wrote in Variety: "The Teddy Bears (...) is made enjoyable through the mechanical acrobatic antics of fluffy haired hand-made animals.
Children will rebel against this position (...) the live bears seemed so domesticated that the deliberate murder in an obviously "faked" series left a wrong taste of the picture as a whole.
[2] Morgan concludes that "what begins as fairy tale ends with a rather grim and adult mix of satire, topical reference (to the president hunting in Mississippi), and realism.
It was included by marketing pioneer John Wanamaker in the holiday program for Christmas shoppers in his stores to incite customers to buy teddy bears.