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Women Film Pioneers Project
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A digital publication & resource that advances research on silent-era women filmmakers. Published by the Columbia University Libraries. https://wfpp.columbia.edu/
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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · 7d
𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐖𝐅𝐏𝐏: Bart G. Moens's overview essay "Casting Shadows: Women’s Work at the Projection Department of Maison de la Bonne Presse (1895-1920)."
Casting Shadows: Women’s Work at the Projection Department of Maison de la Bonne Presse (1895-1920) – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · 9d
Happy Birthday to Danish actress/stuntwoman/screenwriter Emilie Sannom!
Emilie Sannom – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · 9d
"For Lillian Chester, who wrote under the name Mrs. George Randolph Chester, the experience of 'collaboration' guided not only her encounter with the Hollywood industry, but almost every facet of her professional and personal life." wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-...

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Mrs. George Randolph Chester – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · 10d
"Acting in hundreds of early comic films, writing six and directing ten of these, Ruth Stonehouse was involved in film production from a very early date." wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-... #BOTD
Ruth Stonehouse – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · 10d
With her sister, Adriana Ehlers (b. Sept. 28, 1894) worked in film labs, sold projection equipment, shot documentaries and more.
Adriana and Dolores Ehlers – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
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Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social · 11d
We actively are seeking hosts for future Women and the Silent Screen conferences, including WSS 2027!

A helpful potential host info sheet & the application form can be found here: www.wfhi.org/about-wss.

If you are interested in hosting WSS 2027, please submit a proposal by 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟕, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓.
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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · 11d
Beatrice Maude Tildesley "was one of very few Australian intellectuals to write seriously on the cinema and can lay claim to being the country’s foremost independent film critic and commentator for a decade beginning in the mid-1920s."
Beatrice Maude Tildesley – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · 12d
New to WFPP: Mercedes Álvarez San Román on animator, film actress, and trick specialist Julienne Mathieu!
Julienne Mathieu – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · 14d
"Josephine Rector’s career in cinema as a scenario writer and actress is closely associated with Essanay." wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-... #BOTD
Josephine Rector – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · 14d
#Bornonthisday in 1914: filmmaker Esther Eng!
Esther Eng – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · 18d
Happy Birthday to Italian screenwriter Renée Deliot!
Renée Deliot – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
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Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social · 18d
Word is out!!! The curators of Cinema's First Nasty Women -- Elif Kaynakci, @hennefem.bsky.social, @laurah.bsky.social -- will co-deliver the UCLA Copley on Silent Cinema & Costume Design at the Giornate del Cinema Muto this year. 👒☔🌪️

📍 Thursday 9th October, Teatro Verdi in Pordenone
Save the date!
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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 20d
Iris Barry on Radio 4! silentlondon.co.uk/2025/09/18/i...
Iris Barry on Radio 4
Where would we be without Iris Barry? Where would all the films be, more to the point? Iris Barry was a pioneering film critic and film preservationist whose life is every bit as interesting as the…
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Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social · 19d
We've reactivated WFHI's listserv!!

You can join here:
lists.simplelists.com/WFHINetwork/...

We look forward to exchanging feminist film historiographical research (and research questions), relevant scholarly and archival news and events, resources, and more with you all!
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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · 26d
"Hazel Burnett, as she was primarily known, was a theater accompanist who performed in Texas’s biggest motion picture palaces in the 1910s and 1920s." wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/haze... #bornonthisday
Hazel Burnett – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · 27d
Happy Birthday to Asta Nielsen!
Asta Nielsen – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · 29d
𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐖𝐅𝐏𝐏: Z. Rubi S. Lozoya on Indian director, screenwriter, and producer Fatma Begum!
Fatma Begum – Women Film Pioneers Project
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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · 29d
Happy Birthday to Tsuru Aoki (born September 9, 1892)!
Tsuru Aoki – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · Sep 8
Happy Birthday to Hollywood screenwriter Sada Cowan!
Sada Cowan – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · Sep 6
Happy Birthday to actress and producer Clara Kimball Young!
Clara Kimball Young – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · Sep 5
Elizaveta Svilova's career, "which spanned far beyond her collaborations with her husband [Dziga Vertov], significantly advanced the early principles of cinematic montage."
Elizaveta Svilova – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · Sep 2
Happy Birthday to Stefanía Socha! Socha, who was Polish by birth, arrived in Lima around 1926, and established an acting academy for the cinema with the promising name Perú Film.

She produced one film starring her students, Los abismos de la vida (1929)
Stefanía Socha – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · Sep 2
Happy Birthday to American actress, screenwriter, director, and producer Helen Gardner!
Helen Gardner – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · Sep 2
Happy Birthday to screenwriter Elizabeth R. Carpenter (aka Emily S. McCain)!
Elizabeth R. Carpenter – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · Sep 1
"Ruth Ann Baldwin was one of many female directors working at Universal during the silent era. A keen awareness of narrative convention as well as a wry perspective on the motion picture business comes across in [her] surviving feature, ’49-’17 (1917)."
Ruth Ann Baldwin – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
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