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A Tramp stalks a mother and her infant while the father, chased by the cops, rushes home to attempt the rescue. SUSPENSE, directed in 1913 by America's first woman filmmaker, LOIS WEBER.
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While prosecuting a physician for the death of a client after an illegal abortion, the district attorney (Tyrone Power) discovers that his wife helped her society friends and the daughter of her maid obtain and pay for abortions from the physician. Directed by Lois Weber, America's first female filmmaker.
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This is a scene from Lois Weber's Hypocrites (1915).
"The most important and prolific of all American women directors of the silent era, Lois Weber entered films in 1907 at Gaumont, working alongside Alice Guy-Blaché. In the ensuing years, she and her husband Phillips Smalley acted in, directed, wrote, and edited films for Gaumont, Rex, and Universal. By 1914 Weber was a well-known director when she went to work for the Bosworth Company to make Hypocrites.
Hypocrites is an amazingly complex film in both narrative and technique, following the parallel stories of an early Christian ascetic and a modern minister, with most actors in dual roles. Gabriel (Courtney Foote) 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 the 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 in which the Naked Truth, literally portrayed by a nude woman, reveals their appetites for money, sex, and power.
Hypocrites was a shocking and controversial film whose release was held up for many months by the difficulty of distributing a film with full nudity. Weber's sincerity and reputation allowed her to use something that in the hands of a male director would have been considered scandalous and immoral. Widely admired at the time for extraordinary use of multiple exposures and intricate editing, Hypocrites propelled Weber to the front ranks of silent directors."
- published: 15 Jul 2008
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“Suspense”, 1913, is the very first real thriller silent film, directed by Phillips Smalley and his wife Lois Weber and produced by Rex Motion Picture Company. In 1913, Weber and Smalley collaborated in directing a ten-minute thriller, “Suspense” , based on the play "Au Telephone" by André de Lorde, which had been filmed in 1908 as "Heard over the Phone" by Edwin S. Porter.
Adapted by Weber, it used multiple images and mirror shots to tell of a woman (Weber) threatened by a burglar (Douglas Gerrard). Weber has been credited as pioneering the use of the split screen technique to show simultaneous action in this film, but the "oft-mentioned triptych shots had already been used in the Danish 'The White Slave Trade' films (Den hvide slavehandel) (1910), also for telephone conversations." According to Tom Gunning, "No film made before WWI shows a stronger command of film style than Suspense [which] outdoes even Griffith for emotionally involved filmmaking". Suspense was released on July 6, 1913.
"Suspense" is well-acted, quite well-directed and brilliantly edited, with some impressive cross-cutting and even a triptych split-screen effect. Despite some plausibility issues, "Suspense" is most definitely suspenseful.
Lois Weber plays a woman with a baby left alone in the house after her maid leaves a notice of her quitting. A wandering tramp finds the key under the outside mat left over by the maid. When the mother realizes her situation she calls her husband at work who rushes in a stolen car with police and car's owner in pursuit...While melodramatic, this was quite an exciting thriller for the early days of cinema that still provides some moments today.
"Suspense" is a surprisingly advanced film for 1913, especially in regards to the camera angles. The shot of the tramp where he approaches and passes nearby the camera for a close-up while climbing the staircase was borrowed from Griffith's "The Musketeers of Pig Alley" (1912). More original perspectives in "Suspense" include the overhead angles and mirror reflections. Overhead angles are employed when the tramp enters the home, such as one point-of-view shot from the perspective of the housewife (played by the director) looking down from a window, which menacingly catches the tramp looking back at her and thus the camera. A mirror shot in the bedroom shows the wife's reflection in frame before she enters it. Rearview mirror reflections show the police approaching the stolen car of the husband as he races home.
Wendell Phillips Smalley (August 7, 1865 – May 2, 1939) was an American silent film director and actor.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Smalley began his career in vaudeville and acted in more than 200 films between 1910 until his death in 1939. He began directing in 1911 and they made more than 300 films between then and 1921. Smalley was married to actress, writer, director, and producer Lois Weber from April 29, 1904 to 1922. They met in 1904 when Weber was acting in a theater where Smalley was stage manager. In 1908 Smalley and Weber began working for the U.S. division of Gaumont Film Company, where Smalley was an actor, and later a director. He is sometimes listed as a co-director with Lois Weber, and the extent of his contribution to her work is unresolved.
Lois Weber (June 13, 1879 – November 13, 1939) was an American silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director, who is considered "the most important female director the American film industry has known", and "one of the most important and prolific film directors in the era of silent films". Film historian Anthony Slide asserts that: "Along with D.W. Griffith, Lois Weber was the American cinema's first genuine auteur, a filmmaker involved in all aspects of production and one who utilized the motion picture to put across her own ideas and philosophies."
Weber produced an oeuvre comparable to Griffith in both quantity and quality and was "one of the first directors to come to the attention of the censors in Hollywood's early years".
Weber was "one of the first directors to experiment with sound" and was also the first American woman to direct a full-length feature film. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, on February 8, 1960, Weber was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Cast:
Lois Weber….. The Wife
Val Paul… The Husbund
Douglas Gerrard ... The Pursuer
Sam Kaufman ... The Tramp
Ressources: Wikipedia.org, imdb.com
Soundtrack and dubbing: CinemaHistoryChannel
The soundtrack is a derivative work of
Tenebrous Brothers Carnival,Interloper,Zombie Hoodoo,Un Upsetting Theme,Nerves,Reign
by Kevin MacLeod (http://www.incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/ ), licensed under CC BY 3.0 licence, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. No changes were made to the original music.
- published: 01 Apr 2015
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SHOES (1916, USA, Universal Bluebird Photoplays) directed by Lois Weber.
Cast: Mary MacLaren, Harry Griffith, Jessie Arnold, William Mong
Social drama about the dime store clerk Eva Meyer, who desperately needs a new pair of shoes. However, because her father is unemployed, Eva's weekly earnings go into the household budget, bringing a new pair of shoes completely out of her reach.
The film circulated in Dutch theaters in 1920, under the title "Mislukte levens", following the successful release of WHERE ARE MY CHILDREN (1916) in 1919.
The nitrate print found in the Netherlands has Dutch intertitles, and starts with a prologue warning poor girls against the temptations that would bring them to moral decline.
EYE's restored version of SHOES (2010) not only cleans the visual effects of decay, it also uses short images from a later re-issued (and heavily abridged) version of the film found at the Library of Congress to make the plot more complete. However the re-issue version from 1932 (entitled THE UNSHOD MAIDEN) had removed all the intertitles, adding a mocking commentary voice and editing the film down to one reel, completely disregarding Weber's vision of politically-engaged cinema. Since the original titles could not be found, the English intertitles in the EYEs restored version are translations from the Dutch nitrate print.
After digital clean-up and editing, SHOES was written back onto 35mm film print, simulating the original tints as they can be seen on the Dutch nitrate print, using Desmet method. The restored version is silent and is 1191 meters, running 57 minutes (at 18f/s), including the brief before/after demo film attached to its tail.
Music for this clip is courtesy of Martin de Ruiter.
- published: 14 Nov 2012
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Original Title : How Men Propose
Genre : Comedy
Country : United States
Release Date : 20 July 1913
Directed by Lois Weber
Produced by Crystal Film Company
Starring : Lois Weber
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The Blot. Prod./dir./sc.: Lois Weber (Lois Weber Productions US 1921) cas.: Claire Windsor, Louis Calhern, Margaret McWade, Marie Walcamp
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Lois Weber (June 13, 1879 — November 13, 1939) was an American silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director, who is considered "the most important female director the American film industry has known", and "one of the most important and important and prolific film directors in the era of silent films". Film historian Anthony Slide asserts that: "Along with D.W. Griffith, Lois Weber was the American cinema’s first genuine auteur, a filmmaker involved in all aspects of production and one who utilized the motion picture to put across her own ideas and philosophies."
Weber produced an oeuvre comparable to Griffith in both quantity and quality, and brought to the screen her concerns for humanity and social justice in an estimated 200 to 400 films, of which as few as twenty have been preserved, and has been credited with directing 135 films, writing 114 films, and acting in 100 films. Weber was "one of the first directors to come to the attention of the censors in Hollywood's early years".
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10:11Suspense. (1913) - Lois Weber, America's 1st Female Filmmaker
Suspense. (1913) - Lois Weber, America's 1st Female FilmmakerSuspense. (1913) - Lois Weber, America's 1st Female Filmmaker
A Tramp stalks a mother and her infant while the father, chased by the cops, rushes home to attempt the rescue. SUSPENSE, directed in 1913 by America's first woman filmmaker, LOIS WEBER. Score by ROBBIE KAYE for CHANGE BEFORE GOING PRODUCTIONS: http://www.cbgp.com http://www.facebook.com/changebeforegoingproductions http://www.twitter.com/cbgproductions http://www.gplus.to/changebeforegoing http://www.pinterest.com/cbgproductions http://www.robbiekaye.com http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0003424/ More classic silent films added daily to the channel. We hope you enjoy these movies and cartoons, some of which contain new musical scores, from early cinema. -
63:55Where Are My Children? (1916) - Lois Weber, USA's 1st Woman Filmmaker
Where Are My Children? (1916) - Lois Weber, USA's 1st Woman FilmmakerWhere Are My Children? (1916) - Lois Weber, USA's 1st Woman Filmmaker
While prosecuting a physician for the death of a client after an illegal abortion, the district attorney (Tyrone Power) discovers that his wife helped her society friends and the daughter of her maid obtain and pay for abortions from the physician. Directed by Lois Weber, America's first female filmmaker. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007558 CHANGE BEFORE GOING PRODUCTIONS: http://www.cbgp.com http://www.facebook.com/changebeforegoingproductions http://www.twitter.com/cbgproductions http://www.gplus.to/changebeforegoing http://www.pinterest.com/cbgproductions More classic silent films added daily to the channel. We hope you enjoy these movies and cartoons, some of which contain new musical scores, from early cinema. -
64:58Where Are My Children (1916 film by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley)
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4:13Hypocrites (1915) - Directed by Lois Weber
Hypocrites (1915) - Directed by Lois WeberHypocrites (1915) - Directed by Lois Weber
This is a scene from Lois Weber's Hypocrites (1915). "The most important and prolific of all American women directors of the silent era, Lois Weber entered films in 1907 at Gaumont, working alongside Alice Guy-Blaché. In the ensuing years, she and her husband Phillips Smalley acted in, directed, wrote, and edited films for Gaumont, Rex, and Universal. By 1914 Weber was a well-known director when she went to work for the Bosworth Company to make Hypocrites. Hypocrites is an amazingly complex film in both narrative and technique, following the parallel stories of an early Christian ascetic and a modern minister, with most actors in dual roles. Gabriel (Courtney Foote) 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 the 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 in which the Naked Truth, literally portrayed by a nude woman, reveals their appetites for money, sex, and power. Hypocrites was a shocking and controversial film whose release was held up for many months by the difficulty of distributing a film with full nudity. Weber's sincerity and reputation allowed her to use something that in the hands of a male director would have been considered scandalous and immoral. Widely admired at the time for extraordinary use of multiple exposures and intricate editing, Hypocrites propelled Weber to the front ranks of silent directors." -
9:57Suspense – 1913 - Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber- First thriller silent film - Impressive editing
Suspense – 1913 - Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber- First thriller silent film - Impressive editingSuspense – 1913 - Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber- First thriller silent film - Impressive editing
“Suspense”, 1913, is the very first real thriller silent film, directed by Phillips Smalley and his wife Lois Weber and produced by Rex Motion Picture Company. In 1913, Weber and Smalley collaborated in directing a ten-minute thriller, “Suspense” , based on the play "Au Telephone" by André de Lorde, which had been filmed in 1908 as "Heard over the Phone" by Edwin S. Porter. Adapted by Weber, it used multiple images and mirror shots to tell of a woman (Weber) threatened by a burglar (Douglas Gerrard). Weber has been credited as pioneering the use of the split screen technique to show simultaneous action in this film, but the "oft-mentioned triptych shots had already been used in the Danish 'The White Slave Trade' films (Den hvide slavehandel) (1910), also for telephone conversations." According to Tom Gunning, "No film made before WWI shows a stronger command of film style than Suspense [which] outdoes even Griffith for emotionally involved filmmaking". Suspense was released on July 6, 1913. "Suspense" is well-acted, quite well-directed and brilliantly edited, with some impressive cross-cutting and even a triptych split-screen effect. Despite some plausibility issues, "Suspense" is most definitely suspenseful. Lois Weber plays a woman with a baby left alone in the house after her maid leaves a notice of her quitting. A wandering tramp finds the key under the outside mat left over by the maid. When the mother realizes her situation she calls her husband at work who rushes in a stolen car with police and car's owner in pursuit...While melodramatic, this was quite an exciting thriller for the early days of cinema that still provides some moments today. "Suspense" is a surprisingly advanced film for 1913, especially in regards to the camera angles. The shot of the tramp where he approaches and passes nearby the camera for a close-up while climbing the staircase was borrowed from Griffith's "The Musketeers of Pig Alley" (1912). More original perspectives in "Suspense" include the overhead angles and mirror reflections. Overhead angles are employed when the tramp enters the home, such as one point-of-view shot from the perspective of the housewife (played by the director) looking down from a window, which menacingly catches the tramp looking back at her and thus the camera. A mirror shot in the bedroom shows the wife's reflection in frame before she enters it. Rearview mirror reflections show the police approaching the stolen car of the husband as he races home. Wendell Phillips Smalley (August 7, 1865 – May 2, 1939) was an American silent film director and actor.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Smalley began his career in vaudeville and acted in more than 200 films between 1910 until his death in 1939. He began directing in 1911 and they made more than 300 films between then and 1921. Smalley was married to actress, writer, director, and producer Lois Weber from April 29, 1904 to 1922. They met in 1904 when Weber was acting in a theater where Smalley was stage manager. In 1908 Smalley and Weber began working for the U.S. division of Gaumont Film Company, where Smalley was an actor, and later a director. He is sometimes listed as a co-director with Lois Weber, and the extent of his contribution to her work is unresolved. Lois Weber (June 13, 1879 – November 13, 1939) was an American silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director, who is considered "the most important female director the American film industry has known", and "one of the most important and prolific film directors in the era of silent films". Film historian Anthony Slide asserts that: "Along with D.W. Griffith, Lois Weber was the American cinema's first genuine auteur, a filmmaker involved in all aspects of production and one who utilized the motion picture to put across her own ideas and philosophies." Weber produced an oeuvre comparable to Griffith in both quantity and quality and was "one of the first directors to come to the attention of the censors in Hollywood's early years". Weber was "one of the first directors to experiment with sound" and was also the first American woman to direct a full-length feature film. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, on February 8, 1960, Weber was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Cast: Lois Weber….. The Wife Val Paul… The Husbund Douglas Gerrard ... The Pursuer Sam Kaufman ... The Tramp Ressources: Wikipedia.org, imdb.com Soundtrack and dubbing: CinemaHistoryChannel The soundtrack is a derivative work of Tenebrous Brothers Carnival,Interloper,Zombie Hoodoo,Un Upsetting Theme,Nerves,Reign by Kevin MacLeod (http://www.incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/ ), licensed under CC BY 3.0 licence, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. No changes were made to the original music. -
1:35Shoes
ShoesShoes
SHOES (1916, USA, Universal Bluebird Photoplays) directed by Lois Weber. Cast: Mary MacLaren, Harry Griffith, Jessie Arnold, William Mong Social drama about the dime store clerk Eva Meyer, who desperately needs a new pair of shoes. However, because her father is unemployed, Eva's weekly earnings go into the household budget, bringing a new pair of shoes completely out of her reach. The film circulated in Dutch theaters in 1920, under the title "Mislukte levens", following the successful release of WHERE ARE MY CHILDREN (1916) in 1919. The nitrate print found in the Netherlands has Dutch intertitles, and starts with a prologue warning poor girls against the temptations that would bring them to moral decline. EYE's restored version of SHOES (2010) not only cleans the visual effects of decay, it also uses short images from a later re-issued (and heavily abridged) version of the film found at the Library of Congress to make the plot more complete. However the re-issue version from 1932 (entitled THE UNSHOD MAIDEN) had removed all the intertitles, adding a mocking commentary voice and editing the film down to one reel, completely disregarding Weber's vision of politically-engaged cinema. Since the original titles could not be found, the English intertitles in the EYEs restored version are translations from the Dutch nitrate print. After digital clean-up and editing, SHOES was written back onto 35mm film print, simulating the original tints as they can be seen on the Dutch nitrate print, using Desmet method. The restored version is silent and is 1191 meters, running 57 minutes (at 18f/s), including the brief before/after demo film attached to its tail. Music for this clip is courtesy of Martin de Ruiter. -
5:18Weber - How Men Propose (1913)
Weber - How Men Propose (1913)Weber - How Men Propose (1913)
Original Title : How Men Propose Genre : Comedy Country : United States Release Date : 20 July 1913 Directed by Lois Weber Produced by Crystal Film Company Starring : Lois Weber -
3:32Lois Weber: A Rebel with a Camera
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4:03The Blot (Lois Weber Productions US 1921) (p/d/w)
The Blot (Lois Weber Productions US 1921) (p/d/w)The Blot (Lois Weber Productions US 1921) (p/d/w)
The Blot. Prod./dir./sc.: Lois Weber (Lois Weber Productions US 1921) cas.: Claire Windsor, Louis Calhern, Margaret McWade, Marie Walcamp -
2:431913 | "Suspense" by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley
1913 | "Suspense" by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley1913 | "Suspense" by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley
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Suspense. (1913) - Lois Weber, America's 1st Female Filmmaker
A Tramp stalks a mother and her infant while the father, chased by the cops, rushes home to attempt the rescue. SUSPENSE, directed in 1913 by America's first woman filmmaker, LOIS WEBER. Score by ROBBIE KAYE for CHANGE BEFORE GOING PRODUCTIONS: http://www.cbgp.com http://www.facebook.com/changebeforegoingproductions http://www.twitter.com/cbgproductions http://www.gplus.to/changebeforegoing http://www.pinterest.com/cbgproductions http://www.robbiekaye.com http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0003424/ More classic silent films added daily to the channel. We hope you enjoy these movies and cartoons, some of which contain new musical scores, from early cinema. -
Where Are My Children? (1916) - Lois Weber, USA's 1st Woman Filmmaker
While prosecuting a physician for the death of a client after an illegal abortion, the district attorney (Tyrone Power) discovers that his wife helped her society friends and the daughter of her maid obtain and pay for abortions from the physician. Directed by Lois Weber, America's first female filmmaker. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007558 CHANGE BEFORE GOING PRODUCTIONS: http://www.cbgp.com http://www.facebook.com/changebeforegoingproductions http://www.twitter.com/cbgproductions http://www.gplus.to/changebeforegoing http://www.pinterest.com/cbgproductions More classic silent films added daily to the channel. We hope you enjoy these movies and cartoons, some of which contain new musical scores, from early cinema. -
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Hypocrites (1915) - Directed by Lois Weber
This is a scene from Lois Weber's Hypocrites (1915). "The most important and prolific of all American women directors of the silent era, Lois Weber entered films in 1907 at Gaumont, working alongside Alice Guy-Blaché. In the ensuing years, she and her husband Phillips Smalley acted in, directed, wrote, and edited films for Gaumont, Rex, and Universal. By 1914 Weber was a well-known director when she went to work for the Bosworth Company to make Hypocrites. Hypocrites is an amazingly complex film in both narrative and technique, following the parallel stories of an early Christian ascetic and a modern minister, with most actors in dual roles. Gabriel (Courtney Foote) is a medieval monk who devotes himself to completing a statue of "Truth," only to be murdered by a mob when his work t... -
Suspense – 1913 - Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber- First thriller silent film - Impressive editing
“Suspense”, 1913, is the very first real thriller silent film, directed by Phillips Smalley and his wife Lois Weber and produced by Rex Motion Picture Company. In 1913, Weber and Smalley collaborated in directing a ten-minute thriller, “Suspense” , based on the play "Au Telephone" by André de Lorde, which had been filmed in 1908 as "Heard over the Phone" by Edwin S. Porter. Adapted by Weber, it used multiple images and mirror shots to tell of a woman (Weber) threatened by a burglar (Douglas Gerrard). Weber has been credited as pioneering the use of the split screen technique to show simultaneous action in this film, but the "oft-mentioned triptych shots had already been used in the Danish 'The White Slave Trade' films (Den hvide slavehandel) (1910), also for telephone conversations." ... -
Shoes
SHOES (1916, USA, Universal Bluebird Photoplays) directed by Lois Weber. Cast: Mary MacLaren, Harry Griffith, Jessie Arnold, William Mong Social drama about the dime store clerk Eva Meyer, who desperately needs a new pair of shoes. However, because her father is unemployed, Eva's weekly earnings go into the household budget, bringing a new pair of shoes completely out of her reach. The film circulated in Dutch theaters in 1920, under the title "Mislukte levens", following the successful release of WHERE ARE MY CHILDREN (1916) in 1919. The nitrate print found in the Netherlands has Dutch intertitles, and starts with a prologue warning poor girls against the temptations that would bring them to moral decline. EYE's restored version of SHOES (2010) not only cleans the visual effects of d... -
Weber - How Men Propose (1913)
Original Title : How Men Propose Genre : Comedy Country : United States Release Date : 20 July 1913 Directed by Lois Weber Produced by Crystal Film Company Starring : Lois Weber -
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1913 | "Suspense" by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley
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A Tramp stalks a mother and her infant while the father, chased by the cops, rushes home to attempt the rescue. SUSPENSE, directed in 1913 by America's first w...
A Tramp stalks a mother and her infant while the father, chased by the cops, rushes home to attempt the rescue. SUSPENSE, directed in 1913 by America's first woman filmmaker, LOIS WEBER.
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A Tramp stalks a mother and her infant while the father, chased by the cops, rushes home to attempt the rescue. SUSPENSE, directed in 1913 by America's first woman filmmaker, LOIS WEBER.
Score by ROBBIE KAYE for CHANGE BEFORE GOING PRODUCTIONS:
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Where Are My Children? (1916) - Lois Weber, USA's 1st Woman Filmmaker
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While prosecuting a physician for the death of a client after an illegal abortion, the district attorney (Tyrone Power) discovers that his wife helped her socie...
While prosecuting a physician for the death of a client after an illegal abortion, the district attorney (Tyrone Power) discovers that his wife helped her society friends and the daughter of her maid obtain and pay for abortions from the physician. Directed by Lois Weber, America's first female filmmaker.
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While prosecuting a physician for the death of a client after an illegal abortion, the district attorney (Tyrone Power) discovers that his wife helped her society friends and the daughter of her maid obtain and pay for abortions from the physician. Directed by Lois Weber, America's first female filmmaker.
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Where Are My Children (1916 film by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley)
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Hypocrites (1915) - Directed by Lois Weber
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This is a scene from Lois Weber's Hypocrites (1915).
"The most important and prolific of all American women directors of the silent era, Lois Weber entered f...
This is a scene from Lois Weber's Hypocrites (1915).
"The most important and prolific of all American women directors of the silent era, Lois Weber entered films in 1907 at Gaumont, working alongside Alice Guy-Blaché. In the ensuing years, she and her husband Phillips Smalley acted in, directed, wrote, and edited films for Gaumont, Rex, and Universal. By 1914 Weber was a well-known director when she went to work for the Bosworth Company to make Hypocrites.
Hypocrites is an amazingly complex film in both narrative and technique, following the parallel stories of an early Christian ascetic and a modern minister, with most actors in dual roles. Gabriel (Courtney Foote) 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 the 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 in which the Naked Truth, literally portrayed by a nude woman, reveals their appetites for money, sex, and power.
Hypocrites was a shocking and controversial film whose release was held up for many months by the difficulty of distributing a film with full nudity. Weber's sincerity and reputation allowed her to use something that in the hands of a male director would have been considered scandalous and immoral. Widely admired at the time for extraordinary use of multiple exposures and intricate editing, Hypocrites propelled Weber to the front ranks of silent directors."
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This is a scene from Lois Weber's Hypocrites (1915).
"The most important and prolific of all American women directors of the silent era, Lois Weber entered films in 1907 at Gaumont, working alongside Alice Guy-Blaché. In the ensuing years, she and her husband Phillips Smalley acted in, directed, wrote, and edited films for Gaumont, Rex, and Universal. By 1914 Weber was a well-known director when she went to work for the Bosworth Company to make Hypocrites.
Hypocrites is an amazingly complex film in both narrative and technique, following the parallel stories of an early Christian ascetic and a modern minister, with most actors in dual roles. Gabriel (Courtney Foote) 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 the 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 in which the Naked Truth, literally portrayed by a nude woman, reveals their appetites for money, sex, and power.
Hypocrites was a shocking and controversial film whose release was held up for many months by the difficulty of distributing a film with full nudity. Weber's sincerity and reputation allowed her to use something that in the hands of a male director would have been considered scandalous and immoral. Widely admired at the time for extraordinary use of multiple exposures and intricate editing, Hypocrites propelled Weber to the front ranks of silent directors."
- published: 15 Jul 2008
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Suspense – 1913 - Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber- First thriller silent film - Impressive editing
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“Suspense”, 1913, is the very first real thriller silent film, directed by Phillips Smalley and his wife Lois Weber and produced by Rex Motion Picture Company. ...
“Suspense”, 1913, is the very first real thriller silent film, directed by Phillips Smalley and his wife Lois Weber and produced by Rex Motion Picture Company. In 1913, Weber and Smalley collaborated in directing a ten-minute thriller, “Suspense” , based on the play "Au Telephone" by André de Lorde, which had been filmed in 1908 as "Heard over the Phone" by Edwin S. Porter.
Adapted by Weber, it used multiple images and mirror shots to tell of a woman (Weber) threatened by a burglar (Douglas Gerrard). Weber has been credited as pioneering the use of the split screen technique to show simultaneous action in this film, but the "oft-mentioned triptych shots had already been used in the Danish 'The White Slave Trade' films (Den hvide slavehandel) (1910), also for telephone conversations." According to Tom Gunning, "No film made before WWI shows a stronger command of film style than Suspense [which] outdoes even Griffith for emotionally involved filmmaking". Suspense was released on July 6, 1913.
"Suspense" is well-acted, quite well-directed and brilliantly edited, with some impressive cross-cutting and even a triptych split-screen effect. Despite some plausibility issues, "Suspense" is most definitely suspenseful.
Lois Weber plays a woman with a baby left alone in the house after her maid leaves a notice of her quitting. A wandering tramp finds the key under the outside mat left over by the maid. When the mother realizes her situation she calls her husband at work who rushes in a stolen car with police and car's owner in pursuit...While melodramatic, this was quite an exciting thriller for the early days of cinema that still provides some moments today.
"Suspense" is a surprisingly advanced film for 1913, especially in regards to the camera angles. The shot of the tramp where he approaches and passes nearby the camera for a close-up while climbing the staircase was borrowed from Griffith's "The Musketeers of Pig Alley" (1912). More original perspectives in "Suspense" include the overhead angles and mirror reflections. Overhead angles are employed when the tramp enters the home, such as one point-of-view shot from the perspective of the housewife (played by the director) looking down from a window, which menacingly catches the tramp looking back at her and thus the camera. A mirror shot in the bedroom shows the wife's reflection in frame before she enters it. Rearview mirror reflections show the police approaching the stolen car of the husband as he races home.
Wendell Phillips Smalley (August 7, 1865 – May 2, 1939) was an American silent film director and actor.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Smalley began his career in vaudeville and acted in more than 200 films between 1910 until his death in 1939. He began directing in 1911 and they made more than 300 films between then and 1921. Smalley was married to actress, writer, director, and producer Lois Weber from April 29, 1904 to 1922. They met in 1904 when Weber was acting in a theater where Smalley was stage manager. In 1908 Smalley and Weber began working for the U.S. division of Gaumont Film Company, where Smalley was an actor, and later a director. He is sometimes listed as a co-director with Lois Weber, and the extent of his contribution to her work is unresolved.
Lois Weber (June 13, 1879 – November 13, 1939) was an American silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director, who is considered "the most important female director the American film industry has known", and "one of the most important and prolific film directors in the era of silent films". Film historian Anthony Slide asserts that: "Along with D.W. Griffith, Lois Weber was the American cinema's first genuine auteur, a filmmaker involved in all aspects of production and one who utilized the motion picture to put across her own ideas and philosophies."
Weber produced an oeuvre comparable to Griffith in both quantity and quality and was "one of the first directors to come to the attention of the censors in Hollywood's early years".
Weber was "one of the first directors to experiment with sound" and was also the first American woman to direct a full-length feature film. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, on February 8, 1960, Weber was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Cast:
Lois Weber….. The Wife
Val Paul… The Husbund
Douglas Gerrard ... The Pursuer
Sam Kaufman ... The Tramp
Ressources: Wikipedia.org, imdb.com
Soundtrack and dubbing: CinemaHistoryChannel
The soundtrack is a derivative work of
Tenebrous Brothers Carnival,Interloper,Zombie Hoodoo,Un Upsetting Theme,Nerves,Reign
by Kevin MacLeod (http://www.incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/ ), licensed under CC BY 3.0 licence, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. No changes were made to the original music.
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“Suspense”, 1913, is the very first real thriller silent film, directed by Phillips Smalley and his wife Lois Weber and produced by Rex Motion Picture Company. In 1913, Weber and Smalley collaborated in directing a ten-minute thriller, “Suspense” , based on the play "Au Telephone" by André de Lorde, which had been filmed in 1908 as "Heard over the Phone" by Edwin S. Porter.
Adapted by Weber, it used multiple images and mirror shots to tell of a woman (Weber) threatened by a burglar (Douglas Gerrard). Weber has been credited as pioneering the use of the split screen technique to show simultaneous action in this film, but the "oft-mentioned triptych shots had already been used in the Danish 'The White Slave Trade' films (Den hvide slavehandel) (1910), also for telephone conversations." According to Tom Gunning, "No film made before WWI shows a stronger command of film style than Suspense [which] outdoes even Griffith for emotionally involved filmmaking". Suspense was released on July 6, 1913.
"Suspense" is well-acted, quite well-directed and brilliantly edited, with some impressive cross-cutting and even a triptych split-screen effect. Despite some plausibility issues, "Suspense" is most definitely suspenseful.
Lois Weber plays a woman with a baby left alone in the house after her maid leaves a notice of her quitting. A wandering tramp finds the key under the outside mat left over by the maid. When the mother realizes her situation she calls her husband at work who rushes in a stolen car with police and car's owner in pursuit...While melodramatic, this was quite an exciting thriller for the early days of cinema that still provides some moments today.
"Suspense" is a surprisingly advanced film for 1913, especially in regards to the camera angles. The shot of the tramp where he approaches and passes nearby the camera for a close-up while climbing the staircase was borrowed from Griffith's "The Musketeers of Pig Alley" (1912). More original perspectives in "Suspense" include the overhead angles and mirror reflections. Overhead angles are employed when the tramp enters the home, such as one point-of-view shot from the perspective of the housewife (played by the director) looking down from a window, which menacingly catches the tramp looking back at her and thus the camera. A mirror shot in the bedroom shows the wife's reflection in frame before she enters it. Rearview mirror reflections show the police approaching the stolen car of the husband as he races home.
Wendell Phillips Smalley (August 7, 1865 – May 2, 1939) was an American silent film director and actor.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Smalley began his career in vaudeville and acted in more than 200 films between 1910 until his death in 1939. He began directing in 1911 and they made more than 300 films between then and 1921. Smalley was married to actress, writer, director, and producer Lois Weber from April 29, 1904 to 1922. They met in 1904 when Weber was acting in a theater where Smalley was stage manager. In 1908 Smalley and Weber began working for the U.S. division of Gaumont Film Company, where Smalley was an actor, and later a director. He is sometimes listed as a co-director with Lois Weber, and the extent of his contribution to her work is unresolved.
Lois Weber (June 13, 1879 – November 13, 1939) was an American silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director, who is considered "the most important female director the American film industry has known", and "one of the most important and prolific film directors in the era of silent films". Film historian Anthony Slide asserts that: "Along with D.W. Griffith, Lois Weber was the American cinema's first genuine auteur, a filmmaker involved in all aspects of production and one who utilized the motion picture to put across her own ideas and philosophies."
Weber produced an oeuvre comparable to Griffith in both quantity and quality and was "one of the first directors to come to the attention of the censors in Hollywood's early years".
Weber was "one of the first directors to experiment with sound" and was also the first American woman to direct a full-length feature film. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, on February 8, 1960, Weber was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Cast:
Lois Weber….. The Wife
Val Paul… The Husbund
Douglas Gerrard ... The Pursuer
Sam Kaufman ... The Tramp
Ressources: Wikipedia.org, imdb.com
Soundtrack and dubbing: CinemaHistoryChannel
The soundtrack is a derivative work of
Tenebrous Brothers Carnival,Interloper,Zombie Hoodoo,Un Upsetting Theme,Nerves,Reign
by Kevin MacLeod (http://www.incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/ ), licensed under CC BY 3.0 licence, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. No changes were made to the original music.
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Shoes
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SHOES (1916, USA, Universal Bluebird Photoplays) directed by Lois Weber.
Cast: Mary MacLaren, Harry Griffith, Jessie Arnold, William Mong
Social drama about t...
SHOES (1916, USA, Universal Bluebird Photoplays) directed by Lois Weber.
Cast: Mary MacLaren, Harry Griffith, Jessie Arnold, William Mong
Social drama about the dime store clerk Eva Meyer, who desperately needs a new pair of shoes. However, because her father is unemployed, Eva's weekly earnings go into the household budget, bringing a new pair of shoes completely out of her reach.
The film circulated in Dutch theaters in 1920, under the title "Mislukte levens", following the successful release of WHERE ARE MY CHILDREN (1916) in 1919.
The nitrate print found in the Netherlands has Dutch intertitles, and starts with a prologue warning poor girls against the temptations that would bring them to moral decline.
EYE's restored version of SHOES (2010) not only cleans the visual effects of decay, it also uses short images from a later re-issued (and heavily abridged) version of the film found at the Library of Congress to make the plot more complete. However the re-issue version from 1932 (entitled THE UNSHOD MAIDEN) had removed all the intertitles, adding a mocking commentary voice and editing the film down to one reel, completely disregarding Weber's vision of politically-engaged cinema. Since the original titles could not be found, the English intertitles in the EYEs restored version are translations from the Dutch nitrate print.
After digital clean-up and editing, SHOES was written back onto 35mm film print, simulating the original tints as they can be seen on the Dutch nitrate print, using Desmet method. The restored version is silent and is 1191 meters, running 57 minutes (at 18f/s), including the brief before/after demo film attached to its tail.
Music for this clip is courtesy of Martin de Ruiter.
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SHOES (1916, USA, Universal Bluebird Photoplays) directed by Lois Weber.
Cast: Mary MacLaren, Harry Griffith, Jessie Arnold, William Mong
Social drama about the dime store clerk Eva Meyer, who desperately needs a new pair of shoes. However, because her father is unemployed, Eva's weekly earnings go into the household budget, bringing a new pair of shoes completely out of her reach.
The film circulated in Dutch theaters in 1920, under the title "Mislukte levens", following the successful release of WHERE ARE MY CHILDREN (1916) in 1919.
The nitrate print found in the Netherlands has Dutch intertitles, and starts with a prologue warning poor girls against the temptations that would bring them to moral decline.
EYE's restored version of SHOES (2010) not only cleans the visual effects of decay, it also uses short images from a later re-issued (and heavily abridged) version of the film found at the Library of Congress to make the plot more complete. However the re-issue version from 1932 (entitled THE UNSHOD MAIDEN) had removed all the intertitles, adding a mocking commentary voice and editing the film down to one reel, completely disregarding Weber's vision of politically-engaged cinema. Since the original titles could not be found, the English intertitles in the EYEs restored version are translations from the Dutch nitrate print.
After digital clean-up and editing, SHOES was written back onto 35mm film print, simulating the original tints as they can be seen on the Dutch nitrate print, using Desmet method. The restored version is silent and is 1191 meters, running 57 minutes (at 18f/s), including the brief before/after demo film attached to its tail.
Music for this clip is courtesy of Martin de Ruiter.
- published: 14 Nov 2012
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Weber - How Men Propose (1913)
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Original Title : How Men Propose
Genre : Comedy
Country : United States
Release Date : 20 July 1913
Directed by Lois Weber
Produced by Crystal Film Company
Star...
Original Title : How Men Propose
Genre : Comedy
Country : United States
Release Date : 20 July 1913
Directed by Lois Weber
Produced by Crystal Film Company
Starring : Lois Weber
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Original Title : How Men Propose
Genre : Comedy
Country : United States
Release Date : 20 July 1913
Directed by Lois Weber
Produced by Crystal Film Company
Starring : Lois Weber
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Lois Weber: A Rebel with a Camera
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The Blot (Lois Weber Productions US 1921) (p/d/w)
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The Blot. Prod./dir./sc.: Lois Weber (Lois Weber Productions US 1921) cas.: Claire Windsor, Louis Calhern, Margaret McWade, Marie Walcamp
The Blot. Prod./dir./sc.: Lois Weber (Lois Weber Productions US 1921) cas.: Claire Windsor, Louis Calhern, Margaret McWade, Marie Walcamp
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The Blot. Prod./dir./sc.: Lois Weber (Lois Weber Productions US 1921) cas.: Claire Windsor, Louis Calhern, Margaret McWade, Marie Walcamp
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1913 | "Suspense" by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley
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Suspense. (1913) - Lois Weber, America's 1st Female Filmmaker
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Where Are My Children? (1916) - Lois Weber, USA's 1st Woman Filmmaker
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Where Are My Children (1916 film by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley)
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Hypocrites (1915) - Directed by Lois Weber
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Suspense – 1913 - Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber- First thriller silent film - Impressive editing
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Shoes
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Suspense. (1913) - Lois Weber, America's 1st Femal...
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Hypocrites (1915) - Directed by Lois Weber...
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Shoes...
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The Blot (Lois Weber Productions US 1921) (p/d/w)...
1913 | "Suspense" by Lois Weber and Phillips Small...
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Lucy
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Lisa Swiper
Lucy
Yeah, yeah, oh whoa, yeah, yeah, yes
Lucy drinks and Lucy talks
Love to watch, oh Lucy lose her thoughts
Well, don't nobody talk to Lucy, yeah
Seen her at the hotel bar
But don't ask Lucy how come she don't drive a car
There's too many deuce for Lucy, yeah
'Cuz after a while my Lucy falls down
And all them smiles, yeah they turned to a frown, yes
'Cuz after a while
Yeah, yeah, oh whoa
Seven o'clock and the sun is up
Well, here comes Lucy in the back of a pick up truck, truck
Ooh yeah, ooh yeah, ooh yeah
Now it's time to pull up cash from the street
Lucy wants a nickel or a dime but a quarter'd be sweet
No Lucy, don't spend your money now, now, now, now, no
'Cuz after a while my Lucy falls down
And all them smiles, yeah they turned to a frown, yes
'Cuz after a while
Seems almost like yesterday
They tried to take poor Lucy so far away
Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh
And it seems like almost yesterday
Why would they ever
Ever want to mess with Lu-Lu-Lucy doll?
'Cuz after a while my Lucy falls down
And all them smiles, yeah they turned to a frown, yes
'Cuz after a while
And all them smiles, after a while
It keeps on playin'
Yeah, yeah, oh whoa, yeah, yeah, yes
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Edit The Guardian 07 Mar 2016
Other celebrated female directors of the silent era include Lois Weber, who started out working for Guy-Blaché (the older director recalled that Weber “watched me direct … and doubtless thought it not difficult”) and became a ... By the coming of sound in 1927, Lois Weber’s advice to young women considering a career as a director was starkly prescient....
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Edit The Examiner 01 Oct 2015
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