| Languages | English |
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| Edition | Expanded Blu-ray edition. |
| Publisher | New York : Kino Lorber, [2018] |
| Copyright | ©2018 |
| Physical Description | 6 videodiscs (1,710 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 volume (76 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm). |
| Subjects | Women in the motion picture industry — United States. |
| Notes | Disc one : Alice Guy-Blaché. Documentary short : an introduction — Documentary short : 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) — The coming of sunbeam (1913) — Burstup Homes’ murder case (1913) — A house divided (1913) — Matrimony’s speed limit (1913) — The ocean waif (1916) — The colleen bawn (1911) — On the brink (1911) — The cricket (1917). Disc two : Louis Weber. From death to life (1911) — Fine feathers (1912) — The rosary (1913) — Suspense (1913) — Lost by a hair (1914) — Hypocrites (1915) — Sunshine Molly (1915) — Idle wives (1916) — Too wise wives (1921) — What do men want? (1921). Disc three : pioneers of genre. Documentary short : the serial queens — The hazards of Helen (1915) — The purple mask (1917) — A daughter of “the law” (1921) — Eleanor’s catch (1916) — ‘49-‘17 (1917) — Documentary short : Mabel Normand — Caught in a Cabaret (1914) — Mabel’s blunder (1914) — Mabel and Fatty’s wash day (1915) — Mabel lost and won (1915) — That ice ticket (1922) — Ethnographic films (1929). Disc four : social commentary 1. Documentary short : social commentary — Where are my children? (1916) — Her defiance (1916) — When little Lindy sang (1916) — The curse of Quon Gwon : when the far east mingles with the west (1917) — Scandal (1915) — The dream lady (1918) — Something new (1920). Disc five : social commentary 2. The risky road (1918) — Bread (1918) — Salomé (1923) — The red kimona (1925) — Motherhood : life’s greatest miracle (1925) — Linda (1929). Disc six : the feature film. The call of the cumberlands (1916) — Broadway love (1918) — Back to god’s country (1919) — The song of love (1923) — Documentary short : the end of an era. Liner notes. Foreword / Illeana Douglas — Women in early filmmaking : no finer calling / Shelley Stamp — About the restorations — Discovering The curse of Quon Gwon — The industrious Angela Murray Gibson — The Women’s Film Preservation Fund — Suggested reading — Film credits and notes — Acknowledgements. Contains Blu-ray discs. |
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