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Summary:

"More women worked in film during its first two decades than at any time since. Unfortunately, many early women filmmakers have been largely written out of film history, their contributions undervalued. This necessary and timely collection highlights the work of 14 of early cinema's most innovative and influential women directors, re-writing and celebrating their rightful place in film history.International in scope, this groundbreaking collection features over 10 hours of material, comprised of 25 films spanning 1902-1943, including many rare titles not widely available until now, from shorts to feature films, live-action to animation, commercial narratives to experimental works. Directors include Alice Guy Blaché, Lois Weber, Mabel Normand, Madeline Brandeis, Germaine Dulac, Olga Preobrazhenskaia, Marie-Louise Iribe, Lotte Reiniger, Claire Parker, Mrs. Wallace Reid (Dorothy Davenport), Leni Riefenstahl, Mary Ellen Bute, Dorothy Arzner, and Maya Deren."--Container.

Table of Contents:

• Disc 1. Les chiens savants = Miss Dundee and her performing dogs / Alice Guy Blaché (1902) [4 min.]
• Une histoire roulant = A rolling story / Alice Guy Blaché (1906) [2 min.]
• La barricade / Alice Guy Blaché (1907) [5 min.]
• Falling leaves / Alice Guy Blaché (1912) [14 min.]
• Making an American citizen / Alice Guy Blaché (1912) [14 min.]
• The girl in the arm-chair / Alice Guy Blaché (1912) [12 min.]
• Suspense / Lois Weber (1913) [10 min.]
• Discontent / scenario, Lois Weber ; directed by Allen Siegler (1916) [24 min.]
• The blot / written and directed by Lois Weber (1921) [93 min.]
• Mabel's strange predicament / Keystone Film Company ; Mabel Normand (1914) [11 min.]
• Disc 2. The star prince / written and directed by Madeline Brandeis (1918 ; 58:11)
• La cigarette / L'Alliance cinématographique catholique présente ; mise en scene de Germaine Dulac (1919 ; 50:02 min.)
• La souriante Mme. Beudet = The smiling Madame Beudet / adaptation cinégraphique de André Obey ; réalisé par Germaine Dulac (1922) [42 min.]
• The peasant women of Ryazan = [Baby ri︠az︡anskie] / Sovkino First Factory Production ; scenario, Olga Vishnevskaya, Boris Altschuler ; directed by Olga Preobrazhenskaia (1927) [88 min.]
• Disc 3. Le roi des Aulnes = The Erlking / Edmond Ratisbonne présente ; Marie-Louise Iribe (1929) [45 min.]
• Harlequin : a silhouette film / by Lotte Reiniger (1931) [24 min.]
• The stolen heart / Primrose Productions presents a Lotte Reiniger silhouette film (1934) [10 min.]
• Papageno / Filmfantasie von Lotte Reiniger (1935) [10 min]
• Une nuit sur la Mont Chauve = A night on Bald Mountain / Alexeïeff et Parker présentent ; gravures animées de [Alexandre] Alexeieff et Claire Parker (1933) [9 min.]
• The woman condemned / Wilis Kent presents ; a Progressive picture ; directed by Mrs. Wallace Reid (1934) [64 min.]

• Tag der Freiheit = Day of freedom / / Leni Riefenstahl (1935) [16 min.]
• Parabola / Mary Ellen Bute (1937) [16 min.]
• Mary Ellen Bute's Spook sport : a graveyard gambol / animated by Norman McLaren ; Mary Ellen Bute (1939) [7 min.]
• Dance, girl, dance [excerpt] / Dorothy Arzner (1940) [3 min.]
• Meshes of the afternoon / a film by Maya Deren and A. Hackenschmied (1943) [13 min.]

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Author/Creator:

Various , film director

Contributors:

Guy, Alice, 1873-1968 , film director

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

Siegler, Allen , film director

Normand, Mabel, 1894-1930 , film director

Brandeis, Madeline, 1897-1937 , film director, screenwriter

Dulac, Germaine, 1882-1942 , film director

Obey, André, 1892-1975 , screenwriter

Preobrazhenskai︠a︡, O. (Olʹga), 1881-1971 , film director

Vishnevsk︠a︡ia, Olʹga, 1896- , screenwriter

Alʹtshuler, 1904-1994 , screenwriter

Iribe, Marie-Louise, 1894-1934 , film director

Reiniger, Lotte , film director

Parker, Claire, 1906-1981 , film director

Alexeieff, Alexandre, 1901-1982 , film director

Davenport, Dorothy, 1896-1977 , film director

Riefenstahl, Leni , film director

Bute, Mary Ellen , film director

Arzner, Dorothy, 1900-1979 , film director

Deren, Maya , film director

Hammid, Alexander , film director

Shepard, David , producer

Saccone, Kate

Flicker Alley (Firm) , film distributor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fds

Lobster Films , restorationist

Languages:

English
French
German

Language Notes:

English intertitles; French intertitles on La cigarette and La souriante Mme. Beudet ; Le roi des Aulnes in French ; The stolen heart, Papageno and Tag der Freiheit in German ; optional English subtitles.

Main Work:

Early women filmmakers, (1902-1943): an international anthology [by Various]

Included Works:

Camera of one's own: early women directors [by Saccone, K.]

Chiens savants (Motion picture)

Histoire roulante (Motion picture)

Barricade (Motion picture)

Falling leaves (Motion picture)

Making an American citizen (Motion picture)

Girl in the arm-chair (Motion picture)

Suspense (Motion picture)

Discontent (Motion picture)

Mabel's strange predicament (Motion picture)

Star prince (Motion picture)

Cigarette (Motion picture)

Souriante Mme. Beudet (Motion picture)

Baby ri︠az︡anskie (Motion picture)

Roi des Aulnes (Motion picture)

Harlequin (Motion picture)

Stolen heart (Motion picture)

Papageno (Motion picture)

Nuit sur la Mont Chauve (Motion picture)

Woman condemned (Motion picture)

Tag der Freiheit (Motion picture)

Parabola (Motion picture)

Mary Ellen Bute's spook sport (Motion picture)

Dance, girl dance (Motion picture)

Meshes of the afternoon (Motion picture)

Related Series:

Fakten, Argumente; [volume] 0052

Blackhawk Films collection; FA0052

Subjects:

Short films — United States

Short films — France

Short films — Germany

Short films — Soviet Union

Women in the motion picture industry — History

Women motion picture producers and directors — History

Short films

Women in the motion picture industry

Women motion picture producers and directors

Germany

Soviet Union

United States

France

Genres:

History

System Details:

Blu-ray Region A.
Black & white and colour. NTSC.

Performers:

Featuring: Mabel Normand, Charlie Chaplin, Maureen O'Hara, Lois Weber, Maya Deren, Blanche Cornwall, Andrée Brabant, Germaine Dermoz.

Production Credits:

Film/video editor, Bret Hampton ; annotated by, Kate Saccone ; film directors featured: Guy-Blaché, Weber, Normand, Brandeis, Dulac, Preobrazhenskaia, Iribe, Reiniger, Parker, Reid, Riefenstahl, Bute, Arzner, and Deren ; music by Frederick Hodges, Tamar Muskal, Judith Rosenberg, Rodney Sauer, the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, Sergei Dreznin, Eric Walter White, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, arranged by Nils Lieven ; Modest Mussorgsky, arranged by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakoff.

General Notes:

Dual layer. DVD-9.
Aspect ratio: N/A.
Original film: [U.S.A./France/Germany/Russia], 1902-1943.
Title from container.
Edition statements on disc labels: Deluxe blu-ray edition.
Mary Ellen Bute's Spook sport is in color; all other films in black and white.
Bonus materials include: audio commentary: for Lois Weber's The Blot by author, professor, and expert on women and early film culture Shelley Stamp.
Accompanying booklet titled: A camera of one's own: early women directors / by Kate Saccone.

Audience:

Cert. N/A [BBFC source].

Physical Description:

3 Blu-ray discs (652 min) : sound, black and white, and colour.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; polychrome; monochrome

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; stereo; Dolby

Video Characteristics:

NTSC

Digital Characteristics:

video file; Blu-ray; region 1

Call Numbers:

PN1995.9.W6 EAR 1902 BLU

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 617311685293
Publisher Number, Flicker Alley: FA0052

OCLC Numbers:

1053532956