America's first women filmmakers : Alice Guy-Blaché and Lois Weber ; series producer, Scott Simpson.

Alice Guy-Blaché was probably the first person (of either sex) to direct a narrative film. Her first film as she remembered it as an 1896 minute-long tale called la Fée aux Choux (The cabbage fairy). Lois Weber made films that looked deeply into society and behavior. For a time in the mid-1910s, she...

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Corporate Author:	Library of Congress
Format:	Video VHS
Language:	English
Published:	[Washington, D.C.] : Library of Congress, [1993]
Series:	Library of Congress video collection ; 6.
Subjects:	Feature films. Silent films. Women in the motion picture industry. Guy, Alice, > 1873-1968. Weber, Lois, > 1879-1939. Motion picture producers and directors > Biography.