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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."--Container.

Table of Contents:

• Disc one: Alice Guy-Blaché: Mixed pets (1911, 14 min.) ; Tramp strategy (1911, 12 min.) ; Greater love hath no man (1911, 16 min.) ; Algie the miner (1912, 10 min.) ; Falling leaves (1912, 12 min.) ; The little rangers (fragment) (aka Two little rangers) (1912, 11 min.) ; Canned harmony (1912, 16 min.) ; A fool and his money (1912, 11 min.) ; The high cost of living (1912, 14 min.) ; The coming of sunbeam (1913, 11 min.) ; Burstup Homes' murder case (1913, 15 min.) ; A house divided (1913, 13 min.) ; Matrimony's speed limit (1913, 14 min.) ; The ocean waif (1916, 36 min.)
• The colleen bawn / directed by Gene Gauntier and Sidney Olcott (1911, 35 min.)
• On the brink (fragment) / directed by Edwin S. Porter and Lois Weber (1911, 12 min.)
• The cricket (fragment) / directed by Elsie Jane Wilson (1917, 12 min.)
• Disc two: Lois Weber: From death to life / directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1911, 13 min.) ; Fine feathers (1912, 15 min.) ; The rosary / directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1913, 14 min.) ; Suspense / directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1913, 11 min.) ; Lost by a hair (fragment) / directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1914, 4 min.) ; Hypocrites (1915, 51 min.) ; Sunshine Molly (fragment) / directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1915, 31 min.) ; Idle wives (fragment) / directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1916, 23 min.) ; Too wise wives (1921, 69 min.) ; What do men want? (fragment) (1921, 40 min.)
• Disc three: Pioneers of genre: The hazards of Helen (1915)
• The purple mask / written and directed by Grace Cunard and Francis Ford (1917)
• A daughter of "The law" / written and directed by Grace Cunard (1921, 22 min.)
• Eleanor's catch / directed by Cleo Madison (1916, 13 min.)
• '49 - '17 / written and directed by Ruth Ann Baldwin (1917, 70 min.)
• Caught in a cabaret / directed by Mabel Normand (1914, 23 min.)
• Mabel's blunder / directed by Mabel Normand (1914, 16 min.)
• Mabel and Fatty's wash day / directed by Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle (1915, 13 min.)
• Mabel lost and won / directed by Mabel Normand (1915, 13 min.)
• That ice ticket / 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? / directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1916, 65 min.)

• Her defiance / directed by Cleo Madison and Joe King (1916, 21 min.)
• When little Lindy sang / directed by Lule Warrenton (1916, 10 min.)
• The curse of Quon Gwon : when the Far East mingles with the West / written and directed by Marion E. Wong (1917, 35 min.)
• Scandal / directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1915, 35 min.)
• The dream lady / directed by Elsie Jane Wilson (1918, 54 min.)
• Something new / written and directed by Nell Shipman and Bert Van Tuyle (1920, 57 min.)
• Disc five: Social commentary 2: The risky road (fragment) / written and directed by Ida May Park (1918, 2 min.)
• Bread (fragment) / written and directed by Ida May Park (1918, 16 min.)
• Salomé / directed by Charles Bryant and Alla Nazimova [uncredited] (1923, 71 min.)
• The red Kimona / directed by Walter Lang and Dorothy Davenport Reid [uncredited] (1925, 77 min.)
• Motherhood: life's greatest miracle / written and directed by Lita Lawrence (1925, 59 min.)
• Linda / directed by Dorothy Davenport Reid (1929, 73 min.)
• Disc six: The feature film: The call of the Cumberlands / Julia Crawford Ivers 1916, 64 min.)
• Broadway love / directed by Ida May Park (1918, 61 min.)
• Back to God's country / directed by David Hartford and Nell Shipman [uncredited] (1919, 73 min.)
• The song of love / directed by Frances Marion and Chester M. Franklin (1923, 81 min.).

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Contributors:

Baldwin, Ruth Ann , film director

Cunard, Grace, 1893-1967 , film director

Davenport, Dorothy, 1896-1977 , film director

Gauntier, Gene, 1885-1966 , film director

Gibson, Angela Murray, 1878-1953 , film director

Guy, Alice, 1873-1968 , film director

Hurston, Zora Neale , film director

Ivers, Julia Crawford , film director

Lawrence, Lita , film director

Madison, Cleo, 1883-1964 , film director

Marion, Frances, 1888-1973 , film director

Nazimova, 1879-1945 , film director

Normand, Mabel, 1894-1930 , film director

Park, Ida May , film director

Shipman, Nell, 1892-1970 , film director

Warrenton, Lule, 1863-1932 , film director

Weber, Lois, 1879-1939 , film director

Wilson, Elsie Jane, 1885-1965 , film director

Wong, Marion E., 1895-1969 , film director

Stamp, Shelley, 1963- , curator

Wood, Bret , film producer

Douglas, Illeana, 1965- , film producer

Kino Classics (Firm) , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Silent with English intertitles and added music.

Subjects:

Women motion picture producers and directors

Genres:

Motion pictures

Silent films

Documentary films

Fiction films

Nonfiction films

Short films

Feature films

System Details:

Blu-ray; NTSC, region A; aspect ratio (1.33:1); stereo; requires Blu-ray player.

Production Credits:

Includes works by directors: Ruth Ann Baldwin, Grace Cunard, Dorothy Davenport Reid, Alice Guy-Blaché, Zora Neale Hurston, 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.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Originally produced as a 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
Home use only.
Special feature include interviews with historians and featurettes on the directors and restoration.

Physical Description:

6 videodiscs (approximately 1,710 mins) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (76 pages : illustration ; 18 cm)

Physical Characteristics:

4 3/4 in.; stamping

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; stereo

Video Characteristics:

NTSC

Digital Characteristics:

video file; Blu-ray; region A

Call Numbers:

PN1995.9.W6 1911 BLU

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 738329234119
Publisher Number, Kino classics: K23411

OCLC Numbers:

1077206039