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Laura Horak

Hello everyone, I'm doing a digital restoration of the 1926 Hal Roach film What's the World Coming To? (1926), a comedy set 100 years in the future when "men are more like women and women are more like men." It stars Clyde Cook, Katherine Grant, and James Finlayson. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt027...

Laura Horak

Thanks, everyone, for these! Rodney, I would love to see the full version of Diana--do you know how I could get a copy?

Everyone else, keep 'em coming! Too bad that Danish film is lost, it looks like a doozy!

Laura Horak

I am most definitely interested in BOTH serious and comedic examples. In fact, the more diverse, the better. Ideally I'd like more examples before 1915, though...

Laura Horak

Yay, thanks, guys! Keep 'em coming!

Laura Horak

Hello friends! I am back, researching another topic, and I was hoping you might be able to help me. I am looking for films, ideally before 1915, that feature Isadora Duncan-style dancing, that is, women in Greecian-style dresses and bare feet prancing about in nature. Oftentimes the women are descri...

Laura Horak

Hi guys,
Don't worry, I'm still monitoring the post and appreciate any and all suggestions!

Laura

P.S. Det är jatte kult att få svenska exempel!

Laura Horak

Thanks everyone!

Laura Horak

Hi guys,

I'm looking for any kind of viewing copy of THE RED GIRL AND THE CHILD (US, Pathé: American Kinema, James Young Deer, 1910). I know MoMA has a copy but I can't afford to fly there at this point. Any leads appreciated!

Best,
Laura

Laura Horak

Awesome, thanks!

Laura Horak

Thanks guys! Sorry I didn't catch those previous threads, but thanks for bringing them to my attention. Thanks, too, for all the new suggestions! I am most interested in early representations of the picture palace, and particularly films that seem to reflexively display their own exhibition. (I want...

Laura Horak

Okay folks, you did so well with that last request, how about one more...!?

I am also on the hunt for silent films (ideally pre-1916) that depict film audiences. Bonus points if we get to watch the same movie that the on-screen audience is watching...

Laura Horak

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival just posted their line-up for July, as well...

http://www.silentfilm.org/" target="_blank

Laura Horak

Thank you guys! This is wonderful!

Laura Horak

An early classic is Hepworth's How it feels to be run over (1900).

Laura Horak

Hi everyone, I'm looking for examples of silent films that depict film directors at work. Particularly prior to 1916. Bonus points if the film claims to reveal its own director at work! Best, Laura -- Dr. Laura Horak Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Media Studies Stockholm University, Box 27062...

Laura Horak

One of the chapters of my dissertation is about girls and young women who played boy roles in American silent film, which was quite common (I have found almost 100 examples). This was a common practice between the 18th and early 20th century in theater, ballet, burlesque, and opera. But in the case ...

Laura Horak

Thanks guys!

And, I'm sure a whole other book could be written about gendering animals in American film...

Laura Horak

Thanks guys, these are great. Are there any other cases of film audiences genuinely mistaking female performers for men? And can you think of any other gender tricks on the audience involving crooks, like Railroad Raiders of '62? And -- what is the latest that this kind of thing went on, do you thin...

Laura Horak

Thanks, but in those cases the film viewer can tell right away what the real gender of the performer is. Right now I'm only looking for cases where the film viewer is totally fooled (until a last minute close up or something).

I appreciate the suggestions though!

Laura Horak

Thanks!

Laura Horak

Hi everyone, I'm writing a dissertation on cross-dressing in silent film and I'm looking for examples of silent films that effectively trick the film viewer about the gender of an actor and/or character. I'm thinking of films like PERSONAL (Lubin 1904) or THE BOY DETECTIVE (AMB 1908) where a close-u...

Laura Horak

Does anyone know the archival source for this Paramount Studio location-shooting map? (It is a map of California with the various geographic areas labeled "Swiss Alps," "Africa," Kentucky Mountains," etc.) It was published in Tino Balio's The American Film Industry , p. 202, but without archival att...

Laura Horak

Thanks, everyone! keep 'em coming!

Laura Horak

Hello! I am looking for titles of gender inversion comedies (often set in the future) made in the silent and early sound period (thru 1936). For example: “Just suppose this were the year 1950 – and the occupation of the sexes were reversed – the women earning the bacon while the men take care of the...

Laura Horak

Thanks! This is great!

Laura Horak

That Sweedie film sounds fascinating. I've been digging through files at the Margaret Herrick Library and found release sheets for many more fascinating-sounding films that also seem to be lost... Any one know the whereabouts of: The Female Highwayman (US, Selig Polyscope Co. , G. M. Anderson, 1906)...

Laura Horak

Thanks everyone. I have seen a few Elisabeth Bergner and Dolly Haas cross-dressing films in the Berlin film archives--they are really great. I also snagged a copy of She Goes to War from Nostalgia Family Video. I forgot to mention it earlier, but thanks for the lead on the two Blaché films! Any idea...

Laura Horak

Thanks, I have seen those too. As well as Asta's The ABCs. Keep 'em coming!

Laura Horak

Yes, I love Foster's performances as a boy. These definitely count. I would also love to get more examples of girls and women performing in male roles. (And pre-1908 examples of men performing in female roles.)

Laura Horak

Hello everyone, Thanks for your suggestions! Yes, I have definitely seen Ich Mochte Kein Mann Sein , A Florida Enchantment , Hamlet , and several Mary Pickford ( Poor Little Peppina , The Hoodlum , Little Lord Fauntleroy ) and Marion Davies films ( Little Old New York , Beverly of Graustark , When K...

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Looking for prints of WHAT'S THE WORLD COMING TO? (1926)

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Wanted: THE RED GIRL AND THE CHILD (1910)

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Pre-1916 films that depict film audiences?

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Pre-1916 silent films that depict film directors at work?

Looking for silents where we mis-read the gender of actor!

looking for source of Paramount location map

gender inversion comedies & explicit lesbianism in silen

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