#loisweber

My classic film family will love this. Yesterday I did a lengthy on camera interview for a proof of concept for a docu-series called THE HISTORY OF WOMEN IN HOLLYWOOD. I discussed film pioneers and trailblazers like #AliceGuyBlache, #LoisWeber, #DorothyArzner, and #IdaLupino. The team behind AMERICAN STYLE is behind this production as well. I know we would all love for it to be picked up! #oldhollywood #classichollywood https://www.instagram.com/p/B74uq-qnCZ2/?igshid=dg95z5wpqnx

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Great post via our short film, #TomorrowShort Are you following their page yet!? #Repost @tomorrow_the_movie ・・・ This #fbf we dedicate our post to Lois Weber, one of the very first #femalefilmmakers in Hollywood. Learn more about this extraordinary powerhouse of early cinema by following the link to the NPR program featuring her inspiring story. https://www.npr.org/2019/01/05/682372051/lois-weber-hollywoods-forgotten-early-pioneer-has-2-films-restored #loisweber #loisweberinearlyhollywood #loisweberprodutions #femalefilmmakerfriday #femalefilmmaker #femalefilmmaker #oldhollywood #storyteller #femaledirectors #femaleproducer #womeninfilm #npr https://www.instagram.com/whatsthealternativeproductions/p/BvM7pOJAzTT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1hznef3ku40go

#bluebird was a division of #universalstudios and was considered to be of high quality! This #film was shown in the 1920’s Attending a 1920’s #silentfilm talk on the silent films and related ephemera of #loisweber Talk by #martinnorden at #esa38 @ephemerausa annual conference! 👨🏻‍🎨 @theboxsf and @reflectur_com are learning a lot at #esa38 More to come as the @ephemerausa conference continues here in #greenwich #connecticut 👨🏻‍🎨 #ephemera #history #graphicdesign #designer #rarity #antiquarian #lettering #illustration #printing #letterpress #stonelithography #allthingsprinted #printinghistory #entertainers #performers #tour #touring #troupe #vaudeville (at Hyatt Regency Greenwich)

#rolemodel, #hero #loisweber One of the most influential pioneer filmmakers of all time She pioneered the split-screen technique, the first woman to make a feature film, and the first woman to own her own movie studio in 1917 She wasn't just the best 'female' director of the time, she was The Best the most technologically innovative, commercially succesful, concious and moral storyteller pushing progressive ideologies that even TODAY are still controversial In 1916 she made a film championing birth control and reproductive rights and the entire plot centers around the trial of a doctor who provides abortions, justifying the many circumstances in which they were required in 19motherfucking16 Also made a film calling out anti-semitism, Jew Christmas, about an inter-faith marriage and overcoming prejudices Also made Hypocrites (1915) a blatantly anti-clerical film that featured full-frontal female nudity in the form of a character named Truth (the naked truth) exposes the greedy and powerful men who hide behind high horse morality for their corruptions. I mean. There's being ahead of your time and then there's being Lois fucking Weber.

💀 #loisweber 💀 #annapavlova 💀 #shrunkenheads 💀 "Lois Weber, Eloquent Filmmaker of the Silent Screen" by #manohladargis #nytimes 12-15-2016. Photo: Ballerina Anna Pavlova on the set of “The Dumb Girl of Portici” in 1916. Once upon a Hollywood time, one of filmdom’s biggest directors was Lois Weber. Woodrow Wilson was president, and women couldn’t have voted for him even if they had wanted to, but inside the movie industry, women thrived, and Weber thrived above all others. An auteur before that word entered the cinematic lexicon, she wrote, directed and edited films and was admired for her sensitive work with actors, her on-set meticulousness and her stories about women. Her name was invoked alongside the likes of D. W. Griffith, yet, like most female directors of that era, she faded into obscurity. This weekend, the Anthology Film Archives is giving New Yorkers a chance to discover Weber again with the premiere of a beautiful restoration of her 1916 film “The Dumb Girl of Portici.” A lavish historical drama from Universal — with pictorial sweep, revolutionary conflagrations and severed heads bobbing atop spikes — the film was considered to be that studio’s most ambitious production to date. It’s also notable for being the high-profile Hollywood debut of the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova (“the Incomparable”), though Weber finally seems to have received better reviews than her star did. Some critics deemed Pavlova not camera-ready, but Weber was seen as a titan. @air_rat @mllebishop

💀 #loisweber 💀 #annapavlova 💀 #shrunkenheads 💀 "Lois Weber, Eloquent Filmmaker of the Silent Screen" by #manohladargis #nytimes 12-15-2016. Photo: Ballerina Anna Pavlova on the set of “The Dumb Girl of Portici” in 1916. Once upon a Hollywood time, one of filmdom’s biggest directors was Lois Weber. Woodrow Wilson was president, and women couldn’t have voted for him even if they had wanted to, but inside the movie industry, women thrived, and Weber thrived above all others. An auteur before that word entered the cinematic lexicon, she wrote, directed and edited films and was admired for her sensitive work with actors, her on-set meticulousness and her stories about women. Her name was invoked alongside the likes of D. W. Griffith, yet, like most female directors of that era, she faded into obscurity. This weekend, the Anthology Film Archives is giving New Yorkers a chance to discover Weber again with the premiere of a beautiful restoration of her 1916 film “The Dumb Girl of Portici.” A lavish historical drama from Universal — with pictorial sweep, revolutionary conflagrations and severed heads bobbing atop spikes — the film was considered to be that studio’s most ambitious production to date. It’s also notable for being the high-profile Hollywood debut of the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova (“the Incomparable”), though Weber finally seems to have received better reviews than her star did. Some critics deemed Pavlova not camera-ready, but Weber was seen as a titan. @air_rat @mllebishop