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Among Weber's notable films are: the controversial Hypocrites, which featured the first non-pornography full-frontal female nude scene, in 1915; the 1916 film Where Are My Children?, which discussed abortion and birth control and was added to the National Film Registry in 1993; her adaptation of Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes novel ...
Lois Weber. Director: Suspense. Lois Weber, who had been a street-corner evangelist before entering motion pictures in 1905, became the first American woman movie director of note, and a major one at that.
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Chic, Mlle.“Greatest Woman Director in the World.” Moving Picture Weekly(20 May 1916): 24-25. Cooper, Mark Garrett. Universal Women: A Case of Institutional Change.Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2010. Koszarski, Richard.“The Years Have Not Been Kind to Lois Weber.” In Karyn Kay and Gerald Peary, eds.Women and the Cinema.New York: Dutt...
A. Archival Filmography: Extant Film Titles: 1. Lois Weber as Co-Director, Screenwriter, and/or Actor The Price. Dir.: Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley, sc.: Lois Weber (Rex Motion Picture Co. US 1911) cas.: Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley, si, b&w, 1 reel. 35mm. Archive: EYE Filmmuseum. The Colonel’s Daughter. Dir.: Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley, sc.: Loi...
Lois Weber’s filmography was compiled using information from film trade journals, as well as existing filmographies by Richard Braff and Anthony Slide and the AFI catalogue. FIAF does not always credit her on their database. While many examples of Lois Weber’s directing style are extant, a large percentage exist only as incomplete prints, including...
November 2022: Additional bibliographic resources Norden, Martin F., ed. Lois Weber: Interviews. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019.
Stamp, Shelley. "Lois Weber." In Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal, and Monica Dall’Asta, eds. Women Film Pioneers Project. New York, NY: Columbia University Libraries, 2013.
In the silent-movie era, Lois Weber’s films were shockingly ahead of their time – and also immensely popular. She wrote, directed, produced and sometimes starred in her films, and in 1916...
Jan 5, 2019 · Though her works have largely been lost, Lois Weber made at least 138 films before 1940 — many of which addressed social issues like capital punishment, urban poverty and birth control.
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Mar 14, 2019 · Lois Weber’s films have been long unknown, mostly lost; some of the few surviving ones only recently became available and are getting the attention that they deserve. But, a century ago,...
Dec 15, 2016 · Filmography. Milestone Films will release both Weber’s brilliant “Shoes” (1916), about an impoverished young woman led astray, and “The Dumb Girl of Portici” on DVD and Blu-ray in 2017 ...
