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Pioneers : first women filmmakers

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Pioneers : first women filmmakers / Kino Classics ; Library of Congress ; curator, Shelley Stamp ; producer, Bret Wood ; executive producer, Illeana Douglas.

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New York, NY : Kino Classics, [2018]
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6 videodiscs (approximately 1320 minutes): sound, black & white; 4 3/4 in. +

Summary

In the early decades of cinema, some of the most innovative and celebrated filmmakers in America were women. Alice Guy-Blaché helped establish the basics of cinematic language, while others boldly continued its development: slapstick queen Mabel Normand (who taught Charlie Chaplin the craft of directing), action star Grace Cunard, and LGBTQ icon Alla Nazimova. Unafraid of controversy, filmmakers such as Lois Weber and Dorothy Davenport Reid tackled explosive issues such as birth control, abortion, and prostitution. This crucial chapter of film history comes alive through the presentation of a wide assortment of films, carefully curated, meticulously restored in 2K and 4K from archival sources, and presented with new musical scores.

Uniform Title

'49-'17 (Motion picture)
Algie the miner (Motion picture)
Bread (Motion picture : 1918)
Broadway love (Motion picture)
Burstup homes (Motion picture)
Call of the Cumberlands (Motion picture)
Canned harmony (Motion picture)
Caught in a cabaret (Motion picture)
Circus of life (Motion picture)
Colleen Bawn (Motion picture)
Coming of sunbeam (Motion picture)
Cricket (Motion picture)
Curse of Quon Gwon (Motion picture)
Daughter of the law (Motion picture)
Dream lady (Motion picture)
Eleanor's catch (Motion picture)
Falling leaves (Motion picture)
Fine feathers (Motion picture)
Fool and his money (Motion picture)
From death to life (Motion picture)
Greater love hath no man (Motion picture)
Hazards of Helen, the escape on the fast freight (Motion picture)
Hazards of Helen, the wild engine (Motion picture)
Her defiance (Motion picture)
High cost of living (Motion picture)
House divided (Motion picture)
Hypocrites (Motion picture)
Idle wives (Motion picture)
Linda (Motion picture : 1929)
Little rangers (Motion picture)
Lost by a hair (Motion picture)
Mabel and Fatty's wash day (Motion picture)
Mabel lost and won (Motion picture)
Mabel's blunder (Motion picture)
Matrimony's speed limit (Motion picture)
Motherhood (Motion picture)
Ocean waif (Motion picture)
On the brink (Motion picture : 1911)
Purple mask, the vault of mystery (Motion picture)
Purple mask, the lea (Motion picture)
Red kimona (Motion picture)
Risky road (Motion picture)
Rosary (Motion picture)
Salomé (Motion picture : 1923)
Scandal mongers (Motion picture)
Something new (Motion picture)
Song of love (Motion picture)
Sunshine Molly (Motion picture)
Suspense (Motion picture : 1913)
That ice ticket (Motion picture)
Too wise wives (Motion picture)
Tramp strategy (Motion picture)
What do men want (Motion picture)
When little Lindy sang (Motion picture)
Where are my children (Motion picture)

Alternative Title

First women filmmakers

Subjects

Genre/Form

Documentary films
Feature films
Fiction films
Film adaptations
History
Nonfiction films
Short films
Silent films
Silent films.
Feature films.
Documentary films.
Short films.
Film adaptations.
Fiction films.
Nonfiction films.
Historical films.

Note

Originally released as motion pictures 1911-1929.
Idle wives based on the novel by James Oppenheim; '49 -'17 based on a story by William Wallace Cook; Where are my children? based on a story by Lucy Payton and Franklin Hall; The dream lady based on the novel Why not? by Margaret Widdemer; The risky road based on the story "Her fling" by Katherine Leiser Robbins; Bread based on a story by Evelyn Campbell; Salomé based on the play by Oscar Wilde; Back to God's country based on the novel Wapi, the walrus by James Oliver Curwood; The song of love based on a novel by Margaret Peterson.

Bibliography (note)

Guide contains bibliographical references (pages 40-41).

Credits (note)

Music, Eunice Martins, Ava Mendoza, Meg Morley, Liz Magnes, Makia Matsumura, Andrew Earle Simpson, Ben Model, Carolyn Swartz, Maud Nelissen, Deborah Hudson, Esin Aydingoz, Berklee Silent Film Orchestra, Skylar Nam, Rob Gal, Amy Denio, Lisa Mezzacappa, Bill Snyder, Judith Rosenberg, Chris Tsambis, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Libby Meyer, Renée C. Baker, Chicago Modern Orchestra Project, Joanna Seaton, Donald Sosin, Dana Reason.

System Details (note)

DVD; NTSC, region 1; full screen aspect ratio (1.33:1); stereo.

Terms of Use (note)

Home use only.

Language (note)

Silent with English intertitles and added music.

Awards (note)

These films names to the National FIlm Registry by the Library of Congress: Where are my children? (1993) ; Salomé (2000) ; Matrimony's speed limit (2003) ; Curse of Quon Gwon (2006) ; Mabel's blunder (2009) ; Bread (2020) ; Suspense (2020).

Source of Description (note)

Title from container.

Contents

Disc one : Alice Guy-Blaché: An introduction [documentary short] (17 minutes) -- About the restorations [documentary short] (11 minutes) -- Alice Guy-Blaché [documentary short ] (8 minutes) -- Mixed pets / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1911) (14 minutes) -- Tramp strategy / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1911) (12 minutes) -- Greater love hath no man / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1911) (16 minutes) -- Algie the miner / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1912) (10 minutes) -- Falling leaves / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1912) (12 minutes) -- The little rangers (fragment) (aka Two little rangers) / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1912) (11 minutes) -- Canned harmony / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1912) (16 minutes) -- A fool and his money / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1912) (11 minutes) -- The high cost of living / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1912) (14 minutes) -- Matrimony's speed limit / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1913) (14 minutes) -- The ocean waif / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1916) (36 minutes) -- The colleen bawn / The Kalem Company ; directed by Gene Gauntier and Sidney Olcott (1911) (35 minutes) -- On the brink (fragment) / Rex Motion Picture Company ; directed by Edwin S. Porter and Lois Weber (1911) (12 minutes).
Disc two : Lois Weber: Lois Weber [documentary short] (9 minutes) -- From death to life / Rex Motion Picture Company ; directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1911) (13 minutes) -- Fine feathers / Rex Motion Picture Company ; directed by Lois Weber (1912) (15 minutes) -- The rosary / Rex Motion Picture Company ; directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1913) (14 minutes) -- Suspense / Rex Motion Picture Company ; directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1913) (11 minutes) -- Lost by a hair (fragment) / Rex Motion Picture Company ; directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1914) (4 minutes) -- Hypocrites / Hobart Bosworth Productions ; written and directed by Lois Weber (1915) (51 minutes) -- Sunshine Molly (fragment) / Hobart Bosworth Productions ; directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1915) (31 minutes) -- Idle wives (fragment) / Universal Film Manufacturing Company ; directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1916) (23 minutes) -- What do men want? (fragment) / Lois Weber Productions ; written and directed by Lois Weber (1921) (40 minutes).
Disc three : Pioneers of genre: Serial queens [documentary short] (7 minutes) -- The hazards of Helen. Episode 13, The escape on the fast freight / The Kalem Company (1915) (11 minutes) -- The hazards of Helen. Episode 26, The wild engine / The Kalem Company (1915) (10 minutes) -- The purple mask. Episode 12, The vault of mystery / Universal Film Manufacturing Company ; written and directed by Grace Cunard and Francis Ford (1917) (19 minutes) -- The purple mask. Episode 13 reel 1, The leap / Universal Film Manufacturing Company ; written and directed by Grace Cunard and Francis Ford (1917) (10 minutes) -- A daughter of "the law" / Star Ranch Productions ; written and directed by Grace Cunard (1921) (22 minutes) -- Eleanor's catch / Rex Motion Picture Company ; directed by Cleo Madison (1916) (13 minutes) -- '49 - '17 / Universal Film Manufacturing Company ; written and directed by Ruth Ann Baldwin (1917) (70 minutes) -- Mabel Normand [documentary short] (8 minutes) -- Caught in a cabaret / Keystone Film Company ; directed by Mabel Normand (1914) (23 minutes) -- Mabel's blunder / Keystone Film Company ; directed by Mabel Normand (1914) (16 minutes) -- Mabel and Fatty's wash day / Keystone Film Company ; directed by Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle (1915) b(13 minutes) -- That ice ticket / Gibson Studios ; directed by Angela Murray Gibson (1922) (10 minutes) -- Ethnographic films / directed by Zora Neale Hurston (1929) (12 minutes).
Disc four : Social commentary 1: Social commentary [documentary short] (11 minutes) -- Where are my children? / Universal Film Manufacturing Company ; directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1916) (65 minutes) -- Her defiance / Universal Film Manufacturing Company ; directed by Cleo Madison and Joe King (1916) (21 minutes) -- When little Lindy sang / Powers Picture Plays ; directed by Lule Warrenton (1916) (10 minutes) -- The curse of Quon Gwon : when the Far East mingles with the West / Mandarin Film Company ; written and directed by Marion E. Wong (1917) (35 minutes) -- Scandal / Universal Film Manufacturing Company ; directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1915) (35 minutes) -- The dream lady / Universal Film Manufacturing Company ; directed by Elsie Jane Wilson (1918) (54 minutes).
Disc five : Social commentary 2: The risky road (fragment) / Universal Film Manufacturing Company ; written and directed by Ida May Park (1918) (2 minutes) -- Bread (fragment) / Universal Film Manufacturing Company ; written and directed by Ida May Park (1918) (16 minutes) -- Salomé / Nazimova Productions ; directed by Charles Bryant and Alla Nazimova [uncredited] -- The red kimona / Mrs. Wallace Reid Productions ; directed by Walter Lang and Dorothy Davenport Reid [uncredited] (1925) (77 minutes) -- Linda / Mrs Wallace Reid Productions ; directed by Dorothy Davenport Reid (1929) (73 minutes).
Disc six : The feature film: The call of the Cumberlands / Pallas Pictures ; produced by Julia Crawford Ivers (1916) (64 minutes) -- Back to God's country / Canadian Photoplays Ltd., Shipman-Curwood Company ; directed by David Hartford and Nell Shipman [uncredited] (1919) (73 minutes) -- The song of love / Norma Talmadge Film Corporation ; directed by Frances Marion and Chester M. Franklin -- The end of an era [documentary short] (10 minutes).
Special features: Disc 1: Optional audio commentaries by Alison McMahan (for Algie the miner, Falling leaves, Canned harmony, A fool and his money, and Matrimony speed limit) -- optional musical tracks by Liz Magnes (Algie the miner, Matrimony's speed limit), Makia Matsumura (Falling leaves); Ben Model (Canned harmony); and Carolyn Swartz (A fool and his money) ; Disc 5: optional audio commentary tracks: by Anthony Slide (Bread, The red kimona) and Gaylyn Studlar (Salomé) ; Accompanying booklet (76 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm) comprises program notes, bibliographical references, and essays by Illeana Douglas, Shelley Stamp, Bret Wood, Arthur Dong, Charles "Buckey" Grimm, Kristen Larvick, and Deborah Levy.

Call Number

DVDR 2356 P

ISBN

0738329234102

LCCN

738329234102

OCLC

1076273188

Title

Pioneers : first women filmmakers / Kino Classics ; Library of Congress ; curator, Shelley Stamp ; producer, Bret Wood ; executive producer, Illeana Douglas.

Publisher

New York, NY : Kino Classics, [2018]

Copyright Date

Country of Producing Entity

United States naf

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

Type of Carrier

videodisc

Physical Medium

4 3/4 in.

stamping rdapm

Digital File Characteristics

video file

DVD video

region 1

System Details

DVD; NTSC, region 1; full screen aspect ratio (1.33:1); stereo.

Credits

Music, Eunice Martins, Ava Mendoza, Meg Morley, Liz Magnes, Makia Matsumura, Andrew Earle Simpson, Ben Model, Carolyn Swartz, Maud Nelissen, Deborah Hudson, Esin Aydingoz, Berklee Silent Film Orchestra, Skylar Nam, Rob Gal, Amy Denio, Lisa Mezzacappa, Bill Snyder, Judith Rosenberg, Chris Tsambis, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Libby Meyer, Renée C. Baker, Chicago Modern Orchestra Project, Joanna Seaton, Donald Sosin, Dana Reason.

Bibliography

Guide contains bibliographical references (pages 40-41).

Terms Of Use

Home use only.

Language

Silent with English intertitles and added music.

Awards

These films names to the National FIlm Registry by the Library of Congress: Where are my children? (1993) ; Salomé (2000) ; Matrimony's speed limit (2003) ; Curse of Quon Gwon (2006) ; Mabel's blunder (2009) ; Bread (2020) ; Suspense (2020).

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Arbuckle, Roscoe, 1887-1933, film director.

Aydingoz, Esin, 1993- composer (expression)

Baker, Renée, composer (expression)

Baldwin, Ruth Ann, screenwriter, film director.

Bryant, Charles, 1879-1948, film director.

Cunard, Grace, 1893-1967, screenwriter, film director.

Davenport, Dorothy, 1896-1977, film director.

Denio, Amy, composer (expression), performer.

Douglas, Illeana, 1965- film producer.

Ford, Francis, 1882-1953, screenwriter, film director.

Franklin, Chester M., 1890-1954, film director.

Gal, Rob, composer (expression), performer.

Gauntier, Gene, 1885-1966, film director.

Gibson, Angela Murray, 1878-1953, film director.

Guy, Alice, 1873-1968, film director.

Hartford, David, 1873-1932, film director.

Hudson, Deborah, composer (expression), performer.

Hurston, Zora Neale, film director.

Ivers, Julia Crawford, film producer.

King, Joseph, 1883-1951, film director.

Lang, Walter, 1898-1972, film director.

Madison, Cleo, 1883-1964, film director.

Magnes, Liz, composer (expression), performer.

Marion, Frances, 1888-1973, film director.

Martins, Eunice, 1965- composer (expression), performer.

Matsumura, Makia, composer (expression), performer.

Mendoza, Ava, composer (expression), performer.

Meyer, Libby, 1967- composer (expression), performer.

Mezzacappa, Lisa, composer (expression), performer.

Model, Ben, composer (expression), performer.

Morley, Meg, composer (expression), performer.

Nam, Skylar, composer (expression)

Nazimova, 1879-1945, film director.

Nelissen, Maud, composer (expression), performer.

Normand, Mabel, 1894-1930, film director.

Olcott, Sidney, 1873-1949, film director.

Park, Ida May, screenwriter, film director.

Porter, Edwin S., film director.

Reason, Dana, composer (expression), performer.

Rosenberg, Judith, 1946- composer (expression), performer.

Seaton, Joanna, composer (expression), performer.

Shipman, Nell, 1892-1970, film director.

Simpson, Andrew, 1967- composer (expression), performer.

Smalley, Phillips, 1865-1939, film director.

Snyder, Bill, arranger of music.

Sosin, Donald, composer (expression), performer.

Stamp, Shelley, 1963- curator.

Swartz, Carolyn, composer (expression), performer.

Tsambis, Chris, composer (expression), performer.

Vrebalov, Aleksandra, 1970- composer (expression), performer.

Warrenton, Lule, 1863-1932, film director.

Weber, Lois, 1879-1939, film director, screenwriter.

Wood, Bret, film producer.

Wong, Marion E., 1895-1969, screenwriter, film director.

Wilson, Elsie Jane, 1885-1965, film director.

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Oppenheim, James, 1882-1932. Idle wives.

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Cook, William Wallace, 1867-1933. Old West per contract.

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Payton, Lucy, 1877-1969. Where are my children?

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Widdemer, Margaret. Why not?

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Robbins, Katherine Leiser. Her fling.

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Campbell, Evelyn. Bread.

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Salomé.

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Curwood, James Oliver, 1878-1927. Wapi, the walrus.

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Peterson, Margaret, 1883-1933. Dust of desire.

Berklee Silent Film Orchestra, performer.

Chicago Modern Orchestra Project, performer.

Solax Company, production company.

Kalem Company, production company.

Rex Motion Picture Company, production company.

Hobart Bosworth Productions (Firm), production company.

Universal Film Manufacturing Company, production company.

Lois Weber Productions, production company.

Star Ranch Photoplays (Firm), production company.

Keystone Film Company, production company.

Gibson Studios, production company.

Powers Motion Picture Co., production company.

Mandarin Film Company, production company.

Nazimova Productions, Inc., production company.

Mrs. Wallace Reid Productions (Firm), production company.

Pallas Pictures, production company.

Canadian Photoplays Ltd., production company.

Shipman-Curwood Company production company.

Norma Talmadge Film Corporation, production company.

Library of Congress, production company, issuing body.

Kino Classics (Firm), production company, publisher.

Added Title

Container of (work): '49-'17 (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Algie the miner (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Bread (Motion picture : 1918)

Container of (work): Broadway love (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Burstup homes (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Call of the Cumberlands (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Canned harmony (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Caught in a cabaret (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Circus of life (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Colleen Bawn (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Coming of sunbeam (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Cricket (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Curse of Quon Gwon (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Daughter of the law (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Dream lady (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Eleanor's catch (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Falling leaves (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Fine feathers (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Fool and his money (Motion picture)

Container of (work): From death to life (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Greater love hath no man (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Hazards of Helen, the escape on the fast freight (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Hazards of Helen, the wild engine (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Her defiance (Motion picture)

Container of (work): High cost of living (Motion picture)

Container of (work): House divided (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Hypocrites (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Idle wives (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Linda (Motion picture : 1929)

Container of (work): Little rangers (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Lost by a hair (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Mabel and Fatty's wash day (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Mabel lost and won (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Mabel's blunder (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Matrimony's speed limit (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Motherhood (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Ocean waif (Motion picture)

Container of (work): On the brink (Motion picture : 1911)

Container of (work): Purple mask, the vault of mystery (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Purple mask, the lea (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Red kimona (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Risky road (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Rosary (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Salomé (Motion picture : 1923)

Container of (work): Scandal mongers (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Something new (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Song of love (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Sunshine Molly (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Suspense (Motion picture : 1913)

Container of (work): That ice ticket (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Too wise wives (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Tramp strategy (Motion picture)

Container of (work): What do men want (Motion picture)

Container of (work): When little Lindy sang (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Where are my children (Motion picture)

Other Standard Identifier

738329234102 $79.95

Publisher No.

K23410 Kino Classics

Research Call Number

DVDR 2356 P

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