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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| Format: | Video VHS |
| Language: | English |
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[Washington, D.C.] :
Library of Congress,
[1993]
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| Series: | Library of Congress video collection ;
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| Summary: | 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 was both the most distinctive of auteurs and the highest salaried director in Hollywood. |
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| Item Description: | Videocassette releases of the 1913 motion pictures. Rare silent films with new piano scores. Pamphlet inserted in container. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videocassette (114 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in. + 1pamphlet ([4] pages ; 18 cm.) |
| Format: | VHS. |
| Production Credits: | Piano score composed and performed by Philip Carli ; Matrimony's speed limit (1913) ; A house divided (1913) : producer/director: Alice Guy-Blaché ; How men propose (1913): producer: Lois Weber ; Too wise wives (1921): producer/director/screenwriter: Lois Weber. |
| ISBN: | 1560984767 |