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Lois Weber
1) The blot
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A downtrodden teacher's daughter is admired by a wealthy student. When the daughter becomes ill, the family's financial predicament causes the teacher's wife to be accused of stealing a chicken.
2) Hypocrites
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Hypocrites: Follows parallel stories of an early Christian ascetic and a modern minister. Gabriel is a medieval monk who devotes himself to completing a statue of "Truth," only to be murdered by a mob when his work turns out to be an image of a naked woman. The contemporary Gabriel is pastor of a large urban congregation for whom religion is a matter of appearances, not beliefs. The hypocrisy of the congregation is exposed by a series of vignettes...
Series
Publisher
National Film Preservation Foundation
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
48 films, produced between 1900-1934 and digitally mastered and restored by the National Film Preservation Foundation, the nonprofit organization created by the U.S. Congress to help save America's film heritage.
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
None
Description
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...
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"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...