Women's Suffrage (stock footage / archival footage)

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Turn of the century footage of London city streets, horse-drawn carriages. Different footage of street scene, crowds of pedestrians, automobiles. Turn of century women emerge from stately house, climb into car. Turn of century women in front of building, crossing street. Turn of century women in park feeding pigeons with children. Lady in big hat feeds duck in pond. Group of ladies with parasols. Two ladies stroll down European street. Ext. Italian theater or Opera House. Clip from silent film featuring woman in elaborate dress. Nurses in hospital ward, rows of beds against the walls. Woman sits in front of large switchboard and pulls at the lines. Int. office, secretary sits at desk, man enters, woman rises and crosses to his desk where she takes dictation. Schoolteacher stands before classroom of children. Factory workers scrub cloth against boards, work on machines, pitting fruits, working on assembly line. Ext. factory, crowds of women walking. Ext. house, woman pumps well, carries bucket upstairs at back of house. Family gathers for "wash day", scrubbing, wringing, carrying clothes basket to clothesline, hanging them. Ext. stately house. Int. wealthy drawing room, a tea party for a group of ladies, one young lady looks at pictures through viewer while another plays piano while another does needlepoint in chair. Women sit on front stoop outside building. CU pamphlets ("No Vote No Tax.") Illustration of early suffragette. Group of women pose before a banner reading "National Union Of Women's Suffrage Societies" (1903). Emmeline Pankhurst seen. Suffragette gives speech. Group of well dressed women. Suffragettes march in London. Wealthy looking woman gets out of automobile. Sign: Votes - Women - Come to the House Of Commons. Still shots of suffragettes. Parade of suffragettes carrying banners. London street scene, cars, carriages, police. Series of stills, women being arrested and escorted by policemen. Still photo of suffragettes wearing sandwich signs. Drawing of woman writing in script on document. Still photo of Susan B. Anthony and Mrs. Stanton carrying banner reading "No Self Respecting Woman Should Wish Or Work For The Success Of A Party That Ignores Her Sex." Lots of nice suffragettes marches. Women and little girls march in parade. Still photo of banner reading "New York State Denies The Vote To Criminals, Lunatics, Idiots & Women." Newspaper item about suffragettes. Political cartoon of the era. Still photo of woman reading "Suffragette" magazine. A 1913 Running of the Epsom Derby horse race, crowds gather to the body of Emily Wilding Davison who was trampled by a horse. Funeral procession of the martyred suffragette. Huge speeches made to crowd. Graphic: 1914 (large across the screen). Men flock around large sign: England Expects That Every Man This Day Will Do His Duty. Woman in street stands on platform giving speech to passersby. A row of Red Cross trucks, women crank up the motor, then get into the driver's seat, drive off. Woman in 1914-era nurse's uniform stands by as other women carry a wounded man on a stretcher. Lots and lots of parades, women on the march for WWI. Montage of women working during the war, woman pack blocks of hay, rolling barrels in factory, lifting lumber, CU welding sparks, woman welder at work, polishing tanks, interior factory, a zeppelin, women polish airplane, maneuver airplane, place new tires on it. Women pitch in for WWI. Propeller is spun on nose of plane, it takes off. Woman in basic training scale walls, stand at attention, march. Women in mess hall eat at long table. Women emerge from army barracks (Dr. Anna Howard Shaw). Women pair up and dance outside of barracks. View of London Parliament. Women read aloud from newspapers, smiling. Women celebrate the vote by dancing in the street (1917). CU Mrs. Pankhurst. United States suffragettes picket with signs outside White House. Women read newspapers about suffrage. Women turn up to cast votes in variety of polling places (barber shop with spinning barber pole in front), give out pamphlets. Lady Astor in car. Russia, women walk along street, women sit in room with men listening to speaker. French suffragettes, protest signs in French. Women protest in crowded street. For licensing and rates, please visit: http://www.filmarchivesonline.com