Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers
- Year
- 2018
- Description
- Collects films created 1911–29 with a focus on directors Alice Guy-Blaché and Lois Weber; works featuring social commentary by Francis Marion and Dorothy Davenport Reid; serials with women as action heroes; ethnographic films including one by Zora Neale Hurston; and overlooked artists such as director Marion E. Wong. Genres range from comedy shorts and romances to documentaries, westerns, and thrillers.
- Producer
- Wood, Bret
- Production Team
- Kino Lorber
- Genre
- Feature Film
Short Film
Comedy
Documentary
Drama - Content Notes
- Disc 1: Alice Guy-Blaché: Mixed Pets; Tramp Strategy; Greater Love Hath No Man; Algie the Miner; Falling Leaves; The Little Rangers (fragment); Canned Harmony; A Fool and His Money; The High Cost of Living; The Coming of Sunbeam; Matrimony's Speed Limit; The Ocean Waif; The Colleen Bawn; and On the Brink (fragment). Disc 2: Lois Weber: From Death to Life; Fine Feathers; The Rosary; Suspense; Lost by a Hair (fragment); Hypocrites; Sunshine Molly (fragment); Idle Wives (fragment); and What Do Men Want? (fragment). Disc 3: Pioneers of Genre: The Hazards of Helen; A Daughter of "The Law"; Eleanor's Catch; '49–'17; Caught in a Cabaret; Mable's Blunder; Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day; That Ice Ticket; and Ethnographic Films. Disc 4: Social Commentary 1: Where Are My Children?; Her Defiance; When Little Lindy Sang; The Curse of Quon Gwon: When the Far East Mingles with the West; Scandal; The Dream Lady; and Something New. Disc 5: Social Commentary 2: The Risky Road (fragment); Bread (fragment); Salomé; The Red Kimona; Linda. Disc 6: The Feature Film: The Call of The Cumberlands; Back to God's Country; and The Song of Love.
- Language
- Silent with English intertitles
- Media Format
- 6 DVDs (1320 min.) or 6 Blu-ray discs (1320 min.)
- Type
- Black and white with some color tinting
- Additional Content
- The DVD and Blu-ray sets include featurettes on the directors and restoration, interviews with historians and archivists, and a booklet (80 pp.) with essays and photos.
- Production Notes
- More than 50 films and fragments were restored for this compilation with the assistance of the Library of Congress.
- Updated
- 04-12-2022
Production Information
Film InformationReviews
Los Angeles Times, Dec. 7, 2018RogerEbert.com, Dec. 27, 2018
Video Librarian, Mar.–Apr. 2019, 34, 38