Treasures III : Social Issues in American Film, 1900-1934. Program 2, New Women

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Call Number: DVD Silent-Film Treasures Disc 2
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Accompanying book contains full credits, descriptions of the films, illustrations, and indexes.
Films are from five major film archives: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, George Eastman House, the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Kansas saloon smashers / directors, George S. Fleming, Edwin S. Porter (1901, 1 min.) -- Why Mr. Nation wants a divorce / directors, George S. Fleming, Edwin S. Porter (1901, 2 min.) -- Trial marriages / producer/director, Francis J. Marion (1907, 12 min.) -- Manhattan trade school for girls / George Eastman House (1911, 16 min.) -- The strong arm squad of the future /Mutual Film Corp. (ca. 1912, 1 min.) -- A lively affair / cast, Mabel Van Buren (ca. 1912, 7 min.) -- A suffragette in spite of himself / director/writer, Bannister Merwin (1912, 8 min.) -- On to Washington (1913, 80 sec.) -- Hazards of Helen: Episode 13: Escape on the fast freight / producer, Paul C. Hurst ; directors, Helen Holmes, Leo Maloney ; writer, Edward Matlack (1915,13 min.) -- Where are my children? / producers/directors, Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley ; writer, Lois Weber (1916, 65 min.) -- Courage of the commonplace / directors, Rollin S. Sturgeon ; writer, William E. Wing (1919, 13 min.) -- Poor Mrs. Jones! / director, Raymond Evans (1926, 46 min.) -- Offers herself as a bride for $10,000 [newsreel] / producer, William Randolph Hearst (1931, 2 min.).
The second program in a series of 48 movies that helped change America. During the first decades of the 20th century no issue was too controversial for movies ... from prohibition to abortion, unions, atheism, the vote for women, worker safety, juvenile justice, homelessness and immigration, these films became the catalyst for social change.
DVD, region 0; Dolby Digital stereo., dual layer, NTSC.

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