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America's First Women Filmmakers
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Before the consolidation of Hollywood's studio system, women were among the most prominent film directors in America. This videotape collects four complete works from the silent era's two most accomplished and successful women directors, both of whom ran their own production companies. Lois Weber's ...
This collection showcases the best of the Library of Congress's animated cartoons from the first decades of the last century, an era full of surprises and experimentation. Among the 21 complete films (and two fragments) are samples of early live-action animation from J. Stuart Blackton (THE ...
Origins of the Fantasy Feature
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These two rare features from 1914 (the first year that feature-length filmmaking became the norm) bring to the screen an imaginative freedom and comic verve rarely duplicated since. Novelist L. Frank Baum himself produced THE PATCHWORK GIRL OF OZ twenty-five years before MGM's THE WIZARD OF OZ. ...
Origins of the Gangster Film
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Long before the James Cagney/Edward G. Robinson era, American directors and audiences were finding suspense and thrills in the gangster film. ALIAS JIMMY VALENTINE, lost for 75 years, is a major rediscovery. Hailed at its 1915 release as 'remarkably realistic,' this tale of bank heists and prison ...
The African American Cinema I
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Oscar Micheauz's WITHIN OUR GATES is the earliest surviving feature directed by an African American. However, this startling film, unseen for 75 years, is far more than a historic curiosity. The 1993 Library of Congress intertitle restoration reveals it as passionate social history, confronting ...
The African American Cinema II
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THE SCAR OF SHAME (1926) is a rare surviving silent example of what the film industry once labeled 'race movies': films with African American casts intended for African American audiences. An aspiring middle-class black composer marries a woman to rescue her from ghetto crime and harassment but ...
