Pioneers : first women filmmakers

Pioneers First women filmmakers

DVD - 2018

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.

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Subjects
Women motion picture producers and directors.
Silent films.
Documentary films.
Fiction films.
Nonfiction films.
Short films.
Feature films.
Genres
Silent films
Documentary films
Fiction films
Nonfiction films
Short films
Feature films
Published
[New York, N.Y.] : Kino Classics [2018]
Language
English
Other Authors
Lois Weber, 1879-1939 (film director), Ida May Park (curator), Nell Shipman, 1892-1970 (film producer), Elsie Jane Wilson, Marion E. Wong, Ruth Ann Baldwin, Cleo Madison, 1883-1964, Frances Marion, 1888-1973, Nazimova, 1879-1945, Mabel Normand, 1894-1930, Grace Cunard, 1894-1967, Dorothy Davenport, 1896-1977, Alice Guy, 1873-1968, Zora Neale Hurston, Shelley Stamp, 1963-, Illeana Douglas, 1965-, Bret Wood
Edition
Full screen
Item Description
Originally produced as motion pictures 1911-1929.
Title from container.
A monumental six-disc collection ; 2K and 4K restorations of more than 50 films ; features, shorts, fragments ; 80-page booklet with essays and photos ; interviews with historians and archivists ; musical scores by Renée C. Baker, The Berklee Silent Film Orchestra, Makia Matsumura, Maud Nelissen, Dana Reason, Aleksandra Vrebalov, and others
Special feature include interviews with historians and featurettes on the directors and resortation.
Physical Description
6 v. (1 videodisc per volume) (approximately 1320 mins) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD, NTSC, region 1, aspect ratio (1.33 : 1)
Audience
Not rated.
Production Credits
Directors: Grace Cunard, Dorothy Davenport Reid, Alice Guy-Blaché, Zora Neale Hurston, Ruth Ann Baldwin , Cleo Madison, Frances Marion, Alla Nazimova, Mabel Normand, Ida May Park, Nell Shipman, Lois Weber, Elsie Jane Wilson, Marion E. Wong
Curator, Shelley Stamp ; producer, Bret Wood ; executive producer, Illeana Douglas
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
  • Disc one: Alice Guy-Blaché. Documentary short: An introduction
  • Documentary short: Alice Guy-Blaché
  • Mixed pets
  • Tramp strategy
  • Greater love hath no man
  • Algie the miner
  • Falling leaves
  • The little rangers (fragment)
  • Canned harmony
  • A fool and his money
  • The high cost of living
  • Matrimony's speed limit
  • The ocean waif
  • The colleen bawn
  • On the brink (fragment)
  • Disc two: Lois Weber. Documentary short: Lois Weber
  • From death to life
  • Fine feathers
  • The rosary
  • Suspense
  • Lost by a hair (fragment)
  • Hypocrites
  • Sunshine Molly (fragment)
  • Idle wives (fragment)
  • What do men want? (fragment)
  • Disc three: Pioneers of genre. Documentary short: The serial queens
  • The hazards of Helen
  • A daughter of "The law"
  • Eleanor's catch
  • '49 - '17
  • . Documentary short: Mabel Normand
  • Caught in a cabaret
  • Mable's blunder
  • Mabel and Fatty's wash day
  • That ice ticket
  • Ethnographic films
  • Disc four: Social commentary 1. Documentary short: Social commentary
  • Where are my children?
  • Her defiance
  • When little Lindy sang
  • The curse of Quon Gwon: when the far east mingles with the west
  • Scandal
  • The dream lady
  • Something new
  • Disc five: Social commentary 2. The risky road (fragment)
  • Bread (fragment)
  • Salomé
  • The red Kimona
  • Linda
  • Disc six: The feature film. The call of the Cumberlands
  • Back to God's country
  • The song of love--. Documentary short: The end of an era.

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