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

Publication Info. New York, NY : Kino Classics, [2018]
©2018

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 Moore Video  PN1995.9.W6 P555 2018    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
 Moore Video  PN1995.9.W6 P555 2018  booklet    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Edition Full screen.
Description 6 DVDs (approximately 1320 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. 1 booklet (76 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm)
Physical Medium 4 3/4 in.
stamping
Description digital
optical
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1
Motion pictures
System Details DVD; NTSC, region 1; full screen aspect ratio (1.33:1).
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.
Note Full screen.
Title from container.
Originally released as motion pictures 1911-1929.
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.
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.
Special features: Audio commentaries by Alison McMahan (for Algie the miner, Falling leaves, Canned harmony, A fool and his money, and Matrimony speed limit); An introduction (documentary short); Alice Guy-Blaché (documentary short); About the restorations (documentary short); Lois Weber (documentary short); Mabel Normand (documentary short); Serial queens (documentary short); Social commentary (documentary short); commentary tracks: Bread (Anthony Slide), Salomé (Gaylyn Studlar), The red kimona (Anthony Slide); The end of an era (documentary short).
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.
Contents Disc one : Alice Guy-Blaché: Mixed pets / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1911) (14 min.) -- Tramp strategy / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1911) (12 min.) -- Greater love hath no man / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1911) (16 min.) -- Algie the miner / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1912) (10 min.) -- Falling leaves / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1912) (12 min.) -- Little rangers (fragment) (aka Two little rangers) / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1912) (11 min.) -- Canned harmony / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1912) (16 min.) -- A fool and his money / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1912) (11 min.) -- High cost of living / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1912) (14 min.) -- Matrimony's speed limit / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1913) (14 min.) -- Ocean waif / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1916) (36 min.) -- Colleen bawn / The Kalem Company ; directed by Gene Gauntier and Sidney Olcott (1911) (35 min.) -- On the brink (fragment) / Rex Motion Picture Company ; directed by Edwin S. Porter and Lois Weber (1911) (12 min.).
Disc two : Lois Weber: From death to life / Rex Motion Picture Company ; directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1911) (13 min.) -- Fine feathers / Rex Motion Picture Company ; directed by Lois Weber (1912) (15 min.) -- Rosary / Rex Motion Picture Company ; directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1913) (14 min.) -- Suspense / Rex Motion Picture Company ; directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1913) (11 min.) -- Lost by a hair (fragment) / Rex Motion Picture Company ; directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1914) (4 min.) -- Hypocrites / Hobart Bosworth Productions ; written and directed by Lois Weber (1915) (51 min.) -- Sunshine Molly (fragment) / Hobart Bosworth Productions ; directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1915) (31 min.) -- Idle wives (fragment) / Universal Film Manufacturing Company ; directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1916) (23 min.) -- What do men want? (fragment) / Lois Weber Productions ; written and directed by Lois Weber (1921) (40 min.).
Disc three : Pioneers of genre: Hazards of Helen. Episode 13, The escape on the fast freight / The Kalem Company (1915) (11 min.) -- Hazards of Helen. Episode 26, The wild engine / The Kalem Company (1915) (10 min.) -- Purple mask. Episode 12, The vault of mystery / Universal Film Manufacturing Company ; written and directed by Grace Cunard and Francis Ford (1917) (19 min.) -- Purple mask. Episode 13 reel 1, The leap / Universal Film Manufacturing Company ; written and directed by Grace Cunard and Francis Ford (1917) (10 min.) -- A daughter of "the law" / Star Ranch Productions ; written and directed by Grace Cunard (1921) (22 min.) -- Eleanor's catch / Rex Motion Picture Company ; directed by Cleo Madison (1916) (13 min.) -- '49 - '17 / Universal Film Manufacturing Company ; written and directed by Ruth Ann Baldwin (1917) (70 min.) -- Caught in a cabaret / Keystone Film Company ; directed by Mabel Normand (1914) (23 min.) -- Mabel's blunder / Keystone Film Company ; directed by Mabel Normand (1914) (16 min.) -- Mabel and Fatty's wash day / Keystone Film Company ; directed by Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle (1915) b(13 min.) -- That ice ticket / Gibson Studios ; directed by Angela Murray Gibson (1922) (10 min.) -- Ethnographic films / directed by Zora Neale Hurston (1929) (12 min.).
Disc four : Social commentary 1: Where are my children? / Universal Film Manufacturing Company ; directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1916) (65 min.) -- Her defiance / Universal Film Manufacturing Company ; directed by Cleo Madison and Joe King (1916) (21 min.) -- When little Lindy sang / Powers Picture Plays ; directed by Lule Warrenton (1916) (10 min.) -- Curse of Quon Gwon : when the Far East mingles with the West / Mandarin Film Company ; written and directed by Marion E. Wong (1917) (35 min.) -- Scandal / Universal Film Manufacturing Company ; directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1915) (35 min.) -- Dream lady / Universal Film Manufacturing Company ; directed by Elsie Jane Wilson (1918) (54 min.).
Disc five : Social commentary 2: Risky road (fragment) / Universal Film Manufacturing Company ; written and directed by Ida May Park (1918) (2 min.) -- Bread (fragment) / Universal Film Manufacturing Company ; written and directed by Ida May Park (1918) (16 min.) -- Salomé / Nazimova Productions ; directed by Charles Bryant and Alla Nazimova [uncredited] -- Red kimona / Mrs. Wallace Reid Productions ; directed by Walter Lang and Dorothy Davenport Reid [uncredited] (1925) (77 min.) -- Linda / Mrs Wallace Reid Productions ; directed by Dorothy Davenport Reid (1929) (73 min.).
Disc six : The feature film: Call of the Cumberlands / Pallas Pictures ; produced by Julia Crawford Ivers (1916) (64 min.) -- Back to God's country / Canadian Photoplays Ltd., Shipman-Curwood Company ; directed by David Hartford and Nell Shipman [uncredited] (1919) (73 min.) -- Song of love / Norma Talmadge Film Corporation ; directed by Frances Marion and Chester M. Franklin.
Language Silent with English intertitles and added music.
Subject Women motion picture producers and directors -- United States.
Women motion picture producers and directors.
United States.
Women in the motion picture industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Women in the motion picture industry.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Genre/Form Silent films.
Silent films.
Feature films.
Feature films.
Documentary films.
Documentary films.
Short films.
Short films.
Film adaptations.
Film adaptations.
Fiction films.
Fiction films.
Nonfiction films.
Nonfiction films.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Added Author Stamp, Shelley, 1963- curator.
Wood, Bret, film producer.
Douglas, Illeana, 1965- film producer.
Martins, Eunice, composer (expression), performer.
Mendoza, Ava, composer (expression), performer.
Morley, Meg, composer (expression), performer.
Magnes, Liz, composer (expression), performer.
Matsumura, Makia, composer (expression), performer.
Simpson, Andrew, 1967- composer (expression), performer.
Model, Ben, composer (expression), performer.
Swartz, Carolyn, composer (expression), performer.
Nelissen, Maud, composer (expression), performer.
Hudson, Deborah, composer (expression), performer.
Aydingoz, Esin, composer (expression)
Nam, Skylar, composer (expression)
Gal, Rob, composer (expression), performer.
Denio, Amy, 1961- composer (expression), performer.
Mezzacappa, Lisa, composer (expression), performer.
Snyder, Bill, arranger of music.
Rosenberg, Judith, 1946- composer (expression), performer.
Tsambis, Chris, composer (expression), performer.
Vrebalov, Aleksandra, 1970- composer (expression), performer.
Meyer, Libby, composer (expression), performer.
Baker, Renée, composer (expression)
Seaton, Joanna, composer (expression), performer.
Sosin, Donald, composer (expression), performer.
Reason, Dana, composer (expression), performer.
Guy, Alice, 1873-1968, film director.
Gauntier, Gene, 1885-1966, film director.
Olcott, Sidney, 1873-1949, film director.
Porter, Edwin S., film director.
Weber, Lois, 1879-1939, film director, screenwriter.
Smalley, Phillips, 1865-1939, film director.
Cunard, Grace, 1893-1967, screenwriter, film director.
Ford, Francis, 1882-1953, screenwriter, film director.
Madison, Cleo, 1883-1964, film director.
Baldwin, Ruth Ann, screenwriter, film director.
Normand, Mabel, 1894-1930, film director.
Arbuckle, Roscoe, 1887-1933, film director.
Gibson, Angela Murray, 1878-1953, film director.
Hurston, Zora Neale, film director.
King, Joseph, 1883-1951, film director.
Warrenton, Lule, 1863-1932, film director.
Wong, Marion E., 1895-1969, screenwriter, film director.
Wilson, Elsie Jane, 1885-1965, film director.
Park, Ida May, screenwriter, film director.
Bryant, Charles, 1879-1948, film director.
Nazimova, 1879-1945, film director.
Lang, Walter, 1898-1972, film director.
Davenport, Dorothy, 1896-1977, film director.
Ivers, Julia Crawford, film producer.
Hartford, David, 1873-1932, film director.
Shipman, Nell, 1892-1970, film director.
Marion, Frances, 1888-1973, film director.
Franklin, Chester M., 1890-1954, 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 First women filmmakers
Two little rangers.
Standard No. 738329234102 $79.95
Music No. K23410 Kino classics