Pioneers, first women filmmakers. Disc three, Genre pioneers [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 three of six disc set.

General Note:

Title from disc label.

Special features: Serial Queens (documentary) -- Mabel Normand (documentary).

Performers:

A daughter of "the law": Grace Cunard, Cole Hebert.

Eleanor's catch: Cleo Madison, Lule Warrenton, William V. Mong, Edward Hearn.

'49 - '17: Joseph W. Girard, Donna Drew, Jean Hersholt

Caught in a cabaret: Mabel Normand, Charles Chaplin, Chester Conklin, Billy Gilbert, Alice Howell.

Mabel's Blunder: Mabel Normand, Harry McCoy, Charley Chase.

Mabel and Fatty's wash day: mabel Normand, Roscoe "Fatty Arbuckle, Harry McCoy, Alice Davenport.

Contents:

Disc three : Pioneers of genre: The hazards of Helen. Episode 13, The escape on the fast freight / The Kalem Company (1915) (11 min.) -- The hazards of Helen. Episode 26, The wild engine / The Kalem Company (1915) (10 min.) -- The purple mask. Episode 12, The vault of mystery / Universal Film Manufacturing Company ; written and directed by Grace Cunard and Francis Ford (1917) (19 min.) -- The purple mask. Episode 13 reel 1, The leap / Universal Film Manufacturing Company ; written and directed by Grace Cunard and Francis Ford (1917) (10 min.) -- A daughter of "the law" / Star Ranch Productions ; written and directed by Grace Cunard (1921) (22 min.) -- Eleanor's catch / Rex Motion Picture Company ; directed by Cleo Madison ; written by William V. Mong (1916) (13 min.) -- '49 - '17 / Universal Film Manufacturing Company ; written and directed by Ruth Ann Baldwin (1917) (70 min.) -- Caught in a cabaret / Keystone Film Company ; directed by Mabel Normand (1914) (23 min.) -- Mabel's blunder / Keystone Film Company ; directed by Mabel Normand (1914) (16 min.) -- Mabel and Fatty's wash day / Keystone Film Company ; directed by Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle (1915) (13 min.) -- That ice ticket / Gibson Studios ; directed by Angela Murray Gibson (1922) (10 min.) -- Ethnographic films / directed by Zora Neale Hurston (1929) (12 min.).

Technical Details:

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

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.

Women -- Social conditions -- 20th century.

Genre:

Silent films.

Documentary films.

Short films.