Originally produced as a motion pictures 1911-1929.

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A monumental six-disc collection ; 2K and 4K restorations of more than 50 films ; features, shorts, fragments ; 80-page booklet with essays and photos ; interviews with historians and archivists ; musical scores by Renée C. Baker, The Berklee Silent Film Orchestra, Makia Matsumura, Maud Nelissen, Dana Reason, Aleksandra Vrebalov, and others.

Special feature include interviews with historians and featurettes on the directors and restoration.

Includes bibliographical references.

Disc one: Alice Guy-Blaché: Mixed pets (1911, 14 min.) ; Tramp strategy (1911, 12 min.) ; Greater love hath no man (1911, 16 min.) ; Algie the miner (1912, 10 min.) ; Falling leaves (1912, 12 min.) ; Little rangers (fragment) (aka Two little rangers) (1912, 11 min.) ; Canned harmony (1912, 16 min.) ; A fool and his money (1912, 11 min.) ; High cost of living (1912, 14 min.) ; Coming of sunbeam (1913, 11 min.) ; Burstup Homes' murder case (1913, 15 min.) ; A house divided (1913, 13 min.) ; Matrimony's speed limit (1913, 14 min.) ; Ocean waif (1916, 36 min.) -- Colleen bawn / directed by Gene Gauntier and Sidney Olcott (1911, 35 min.) -- On the brink (fragment) / directed by Edwin S. Porter and Lois Weber (1911, 12 min.) -- Cricket (fragment) / directed by Elsie Jane Wilson (1917, 12 min.) --

Disc two: Lois Weber: From death to life / directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1911, 13 min.) ; Fine feathers (1912, 15 min.) ; Rosary / directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1913, 14 min.) ; Suspense / directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1913, 11 min.) ; Lost by a hair (fragment) / directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1914, 4 min.) ; Hypocrites (1915, 51 min.) ; Sunshine Molly (fragment) / directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1915, 31 min.) ; Idle wives (fragment) / directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1916, 23 min.) ; Too wise wives (1921, 69 min.) ; What do men want? (fragment) (1921, 40 min.) --

Disc three: Pioneers of genre: Hazards of Helen (1915) -- Purple mask / written and directed by Grace Cunard and Francis Ford (1917) -- A daughter of "The law" / written and directed by Grace Cunard (1921, 22 min.) -- Eleanor's catch / directed by Cleo Madison (1916, 13 min.) -- '49 - '17 / written and directed by Ruth Ann Baldwin (1917, 70 min.) -- Caught in a cabaret / directed by Mabel Normand (1914, 23 min.) -- Mabel's blunder / directed by Mabel Normand (1914, 16 min.) -- Mabel and Fatty's wash day / directed by Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle (1915, 13 min.) -- Mabel lost and won / directed by Mabel Normand (1915, 13 min.) -- That ice ticket / directed by Angela Murray Gibson (1922, 10 min.) -- Ethnographic films / directed by Zora Neale Hurston (1929, 12 min.) --

Disc four: Social commentary 1: Where are my children? / directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1916, 65 min.) -- Her defiance / directed by Cleo Madison and Joe King (1916, 21 min.) -- When little Lindy sang / directed by Lule Warrenton (1916, 10 min.) -- Curse of Quon Gwon : when the Far East mingles with the West / written and directed by Marion E. Wong (1917, 35 min.) -- Scandal / directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (1915, 35 min.) -- Dream lady / directed by Elsie Jane Wilson (1918, 54 min.) -- Something new / written and directed by Nell Shipman and Bert Van Tuyle (1920, 57 min.) --

Disc five: Social commentary 2: Risky road (fragment) / written and directed by Ida May Park (1918, 2 min.) -- Bread (fragment) / written and directed by Ida May Park (1918, 16 min.) -- Salomé / directed by Charles Bryant and Alla Nazimova [uncredited] (1923, 71 min.) -- Red Kimona / directed by Walter Lang and Dorothy Davenport Reid [uncredited] (1925, 77 min.) -- Motherhood: life's greatest miracle / written and directed by Lita Lawrence (1925, 59 min.) -- Linda / directed by Dorothy Davenport Reid (1929, 73 min.) --

Disc six: Feature film: Call of the Cumberlands / Julia Crawford Ivers 1916, 64 min.) -- Broadway love / directed by Ida May Park (1918, 61 min.) -- Back to God's country / directed by David Hartford and Nell Shipman [uncredited] (1919, 73 min.) -- Song of love / directed by Frances Marion and Chester M. Franklin (1923, 81 min.).

Blu-ray; NTSC, region A; aspect ratio (1.33:1); stereo; requires Blu-ray player.

Home use only.

Silent with English intertitles and added music.