DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Pioneers : first women filmmakers.

Kino classics, 2018

6 videodiscs (ca. 1320 mins) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. 1 booklet (76 pages : illustration ; 18 cm)

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NTSC

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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.

Drama.

Documentary films.

Park, Ida May.

Shipman, Nell, 1892-1970.

Weber, Lois, 1879-1939.

Wilson, Elsie Jane.

Wong, Marion E.

Stamp, Shelley, 1963-

Wood, Bret.

Douglas, Illeana, 1965-

Baldwin, Ruth Ann.

Madison, Cleo, 1883-1964.

Marion, Frances, 1888-1973.

Nazimova, 1879-1945.

Normand, Mabel, 1894-1930.

Cunard, Grace, 1893-1967

Reid, Dorothy Davenport.

Guy, Alice, 1873-1968.

Hurston, Zora Neale.

Curator : Shelley Stamp ; Producer, Bret Wood ; Executive producer, Illeana Douglas

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

Includes bibliographical references.

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

DVD, aspect ratio (1.33 : 1)

Home use only.

Silent with English intertitles.

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 -- The coming of sunbeam -- Matrimony's speed limit -- The ocean waif -- The colleen bawn -- On the brink (fragment)

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)

The hazards of Helen -- A daughter of "The law" -- Eleanor's catch -- '49 - '17 -- Caught in a cabaret -- Mable's blunder -- Mabel and Fatty's wash day -- That ice ticket -- Ethnographic films

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

The risky road (fragment) -- Bread (fragment) -- Salomé -- The red Kimona -- Linda

The call of the Cumberlands -- Back to God's country -- The song of love

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