Pioneers, first women filmmakers. Disc one, Alice Guy-Blaché [DVD video]

"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."--Set Container. Disc one of six disc set.

General Note:

Title from disc label.

Originally released as motion pictures 1911-1916.

Special features: An introduction (documentary) -- Alice Guy-Blaché (documentary) -- About the restorations (documentary).

Performers:

The colleen bawn: Gene Gauntier, Jack Clark, Sidney Olcott.

On the brink: Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber, Charles De Forrest.

Contents:

Disc one : Alice Guy-Blaché: Mixed pets / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1911) (14 min.) -- Tramp strategy / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1911) (12 min.) -- Greater love hath no man / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1911) (16 min.) -- Algie the miner / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1912) (10 min.) -- Falling leaves / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1912) (12 min.) -- The little rangers (fragment) (aka Two little rangers) / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1912) (11 min.) -- Canned harmony / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1912) (16 min.) -- A fool and his money / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1912) (11 min.) -- The high cost of living / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1912) (14 min.) -- Matrimony's speed limit / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1913) (14 min.) -- The ocean waif / Solax Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (1916) (36 min.) -- The colleen bawn / The Kalem Company ; directed by Gene Gauntier and Sidney Olcott (1911) (35 min.) -- On the brink (fragment) / Rex Motion Picture Company ; directed by Edwin S. Porter and Lois Weber (1911) (12 min.).

Technical Details:

DVD, NTSC, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation

Personal Subject:

Guy, Alice, 1873-1968.

Subject Term:

Women motion picture producers and directors -- United States.

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

Silent films -- Production and direction.

Short films -- Production and direction.

Genre:

Silent films.

Documentary films.