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A Hundred Years Ago. Comic Actresses and Suffragettes 1910–1914

Italia| Cortometraje| 1910-1914|138 minutos
Título original: Cento anni fa. Attrici comiche e suffragette 1910–1914
Dirección: Georges Monca, Roméo Bosetti, Lewin Fitzhamon y otros
Idioma: Silente Subtítulos: Inglés [Intertitulos]
Formato: DVD-R
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Antología de cortometrajes cómicos primitivos protagonizados por mujeres, realizado por la Cinemateca de Bologna.

The first golden age of cinema comedy began in 1910, when the women’s rights movement was expanding and around the world people were re-thinking gender roles, love, social relationships and attitudes to domestic responsibilities.

In the vaults of international archives we discovered a unique legacy: films featuring the first generation of female comedy stars such as Tilly and Sally, Cunégonde, Mistinguett, Rosalie, Lea and Gigetta. Sixteen of these irresistible comedies were selected for the DVD, along with contemporary newsreel footage of suffragette action in the UK and USA.

Coming to us from a hundred years ago, the films are not only first-rate documents but strikingly relevant even today. Fresh, fun and surprisingly unbuttoned in their approach, they can liberate through laughter. They demonstrate how the new mass medium of cinema, a highly popular amusement in 1910, related crucially to its audience’s existential concerns, offering new role models and counter-models — and of course wonderful entertainment.

List of films:
La Doctoresse (Georges Monca, 1910)
Les Ficelles de Léontine (1910)
Les Timidités de Rigadin (Georges Monca, 1910)
Works and Workers of Denton Holme (1910)
Rosalie et Léontine vont au théâtre (Roméo Bosetti, 1911)
Tilly and the Fire Engines (Lewin Fitzhamon, 1911)
Tilly in a Boarding House (Lewin Fitzhamon, 1911)
Le Torchon brûle (Roméo Bosetti, 1911)
Cunégonde reçoit sa famille (1912)
Les Femmes députées (1912)
Lea si diverte (1912)
La nuova cameriere è troppo bella (1912)
Che paese allegro! (Alberto Degli Abbati, 1913)
A Lady and Her Maid (Bert Angeles, 1913)
Lea e il gomitolo (1913)
The Pickpocket (George D. Baker, 1913)
Le acque miracolose (Eleuterio Rodolfi, 1914)
Pathé News: Suffragettes (1909–1913)
Actualités Gaumont: Suffragettes (1913–1921)