Grace Cunard, director, scenario writer, actress
Lois Weber, director, scenario writer, actress
Bertha Glennon, movie goer, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA 1918
Alice Guy-Blaché, director, Falling Leaves (1912) Solax. Guy-Blaché began writing and directing films in France for Gaumont in 1895. She founded the Solax film company in New Jersey in 1910. She produced, wrote, and directed films until 1920.
Margo Harkin, producer, director with James ‘Banty’ Nash. Bloody Sunday, A Derry Diary (2007) Besom Productions, photo by Lorcan Doherty
Jill Godmilow, independent film and video-maker
Lois Weber, director, scenario writer, actress
Gertrude Homan Thanhouser, actress, scenario writer, film editor, studio executive
Alice Guy-Blaché, director, Le matelas alcoolique (1906) Gaumont. Guy-Blaché began writing and directing films in France for Gaumont in 1895. She founded the Solax film company in New Jersey in 1910. She produced, wrote, and directed films until 1920.
Agnès Varda, director, Beaches of Agnès (2007 & 2008) ciné- tamaris
Alice Guy-Blaché, director, Adventures of a Girl Spy. Guy-Blaché began writing and directing films in France for Gaumont in 1895. She founded the Solax film company in New Jersey in 1910. She produced, wrote, and directed films until 1920.
Margo Harkin, director, with John T. Davies. Bloody Sunday, A Derry Diary (2007) Besom Productions, photo by Lorcan Doherty
Before and after frames from the restoration of Shoes, Lois Weber (1916) by the EYE Film Instituut Nederland. ” The restoration is based on three different source materials: Two tinted nitrate copies from the collection of EYE Film Institute Netherlands (1150m and 85m) and one safety print from a shortened sound version called UNSHOD MAIDEN from 1932 (280m), held by the Library of Congress. The nitrate prints are affected by bacteria resulting in many white spots all over the images and severe nitrate deterioration. In the short sound version, the left edge of the image cut off by the soundtrack. However, this print contains some short but important scenes, especially in the crucial last reel of the print. These are now reinserted to the film in order to reconstruct the most complete version.
The edited material is then scanned for digital restoration. The images are stabilized and most of the bacterial spots are removed to allow a calmer viewing experience. The only available intertitles were the ones in the Dutch print. These are translated and digitally recreated, using the font of the Dutch titles as a reference. Finally, a black and white negative is recorded back to film, from which the new color print is struck, using the Desmet method, simulating the tints of the nitrate print.” This description is courtesy of Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi, Silent Film Specialist, Film Collections, EYE Film Instituut Nederland.
Elinor Glyn, producer, director, screenwriter, actress
Mary Pickford, co-founder of United Artists, producer, director, screenwriter, actress
Frances Marion, producer, director, screenwriter, actress
