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Pioneers [videorecording (DVD)] : first women filmmakers.

Kino Classics, 2018.

Women in the motion picture industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Women motion picture producers and directors -- United States.

Women motion picture producers and directors.

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First women filmmakers [videorecording (DVD)]

The call of the Cumberlands [videorecording (DVD)].

Back to God's country [videorecording (DVD)].

The song of love [videorecording (DVD)].

[videorecording (DVD)] :

6 videodiscs (1320 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., b&w ; 12 cm. + 1 book (76 p. : ill.)

Originally released as a motion pictures (silent, short feature & documentary films) between 1911-1929.

Features: Features, shorts, fragments ; musical scores by Renée C. Baker, the Berklee Silent Film Orchestra, Makia Matsumura, Maud Nelissen, Dana Reason, Aleksandra Vrebalov, and others.

"Library of Congress"--Container.

Silent films with English intertitles and musical accompaniment.

Disc 1. Alice Guy-Blaché. Mixed pets (1911) ; Tramp strategy (1911) ; Greater love hath no man (1911) ; Algie the miner (1912) ; Falling leaves (1912) ; The little rangers (1912) ; Canned harmony (1912) ; A fool and his money (1912) ; The high cost of living (1912) ; Matrimony's speed limit/NYWIFT (1913) ; The ocean waif (1916) / Alice Guy-Blaché -- The colleen bawn (1911) / Gene Gauntier -- On the brink (1911) / Lois Weber -- Disc 2. Lois Weber. From death to life (1912) ; Fine feathers (1912) ; The rosary (1913) ; Suspense (1913) ; Lost by a hair (1914) ; Hypocrites (1915) ; Sunshine Molly (1915) ; Idle wives (1916) ; What do men want? (1921) / Lois Weber -- Disc 3. Genre pioneers. The hazards of Helen. The escape on the fast freight (1915) ; The wild engine (1915) / Helen Holmes -- The purple mask. Vault of mystery (1917) ; The leap (1917) / Grace Cunard -- A daughter of "the law" (1921) / Grace Cunard -- Eleanor's catch (1916) / Cleo Madison -- '49 - '17 (1917) / Ruth Ann Baldwin -- Caught in a cabaret (1914) ; Mabel's blunder (1914) ; Mabel and Fatty's wash day (1916) / Mabel Normand -- That ice ticket (1923) / Angela Murray Gibson -- Ethnographic films (1929) / Zora Neale Hurston.

Disc 4. Social commentary 1. Where are my children? (1916) / Lois Weber -- Her defiance (1916) / Cleo Madison -- When little Lindy sang (1916) / Lule Warrenton -- Curse of Quon Gwon : when the Far East mingle with the West (1916) / Marion E. Wong -- Scandal (aka Scandal mongers) (1916) / Lois Weber -- The dream lady (1918) / Elsie Jane Wilson -- Disc 5. Social commentary 2. The risky road (1918) ; Bread (1918) / Ida May Park -- Salome (1923) / Alla Nazimova -- Red kimona (1925) ; Linda (1929) / Dorothy Davenport Reid -- Disc 6. The feature film. The call of the Cumberlands (1916) (64 min.) / Julia Crawford Ivers -- Back to God's country (1919) (73.5 min.) / Nell Shipman -- The song of love (1923) (81 min.) / Frances Marion.

"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."--Container.

Documentary films.

Ethnographic films.

Guy, Alice, 1873-1968.

Weber, Lois, 1879-1939.

Baldwin, Ruth Ann.

Cunard, Grace, 1894-1967.

Davenport, Dorothy, 1896-1977.

Hurston, Zora Neale.

Madison, Cleo, 1883-1964.

Marion, Frances, 1888-1973.

Nazimova, 1879-1945.

Normand, Mabel, 1894-1930.

Shipman, Nell, 1892-1970.

Wilson, Elsie Jane.

Wong, Marion E.

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