- Description:
- BluRay - Multi-Zone. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
24 fps
- Notes:
- Cinema’s First Nasty Women includes 99 European and American silent films, produced from 1898 to 1926, sourced from thirteen international film archives and libraries, with all-new musical scores, video introductions, commentary tracks, and a lavishly illustrated booklet. This four-disc set showcases more than fourteen hours of rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play.
Titles
+ Cunégonde trop Curieuse
- Alternate Title:
- Cunégonde is Too Curious
- Production Co:
- Lux Compagnie
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1912
- Language:
- Dutch intertitles with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Comedy, Short, Early Cinema
- Notes:
- Cunégonde, desperate for attention, modifies her window so it appears as though she is trapped.
+ Cunégonde ramoneur
- Alternate Title:
- Cunégonde the Chimney Sweep
- Production Co:
- Lux Compagnie
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1912
- Language:
- French intertitles with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles
- Genre:
- Comedy, Short, Early Cinema, Women
- Notes:
- Cunégonde finds employment in a kitchen, to devastating results.
+ Cunégonde femme cochère
- Production Co:
- Lux Compagnie
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1912
- Language:
- Dutch intertitles with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles
- Genre:
- Short, Comedy, Early Cinema, Women
- Notes:
- Cunégonde’s husband, a taxi driver, has injured his leg and can no longer drive. Cunégonde must take matters into her own hands to make ends meet.
Optional commentary available.
+ Cunégonde femme du monde
- Alternate Title:
- Cunégonde is a Woman of the World
- Production Co:
- Lux Compagnie
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1912
- Language:
- Silent, Dutch intertitles, English subtitles
- Genre:
- Comedy, Short, Early Cinema, Women
- Notes:
- When Cunégonde’s mistress goes out for the day, she takes it upon herself to dress in the mistress’s fineries. All gussied up, she sets off in search of love at the local park.
+ Cunégonde femme crampon
- Alternate Title:
- Cunégonde the Nasty Woman
- Production Co:
- Lux Compagnie
- Running Time:
- Short. 9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1912
- Language:
- Silent with Dutch intertitles, optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles
- Genre:
- short, comedy, Silent Cinema, Early Cinema, Women
- Notes:
- Cunégonde won’t allow her husband to leave the house without her.
+ Cunégonde aime son maitre
- Alternate Title:
- Cunégonde Loves Her Master
- Production Co:
- Lux Compagnie
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1911
- Language:
- Silent with Dutch intertitles, optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles
- Genre:
- Short, Comedy, Early Cinema, Silent Cinema, Women
- Notes:
- Cunégonde is hired as a household’s new maid, deemed too off-putting and hideous to attract the attention of the man of the house. However, upon witnessing a portrait of the house’s master, Cunégonde falls hopelessly in love.
+ Cunégonde jalouse
- Alternate Title:
- Cunégonde is Jealous
- Production Co:
- Lux Compagnie
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1912
- Language:
- Silent with Dutch intertitles, optional English, French or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Short, Comedy, Silent Cinema, Early Cinema, Women
- Notes:
- Cunégonde, suspicious that her husband is carrying out an extramarital affair, schemes up a way of dissuading him from outside engagements.
+ Cunégonde membre de la SPA
- Alternate Title:
- Cunégonde is a Member of the S.P.C.A.
- Production Co:
- Lux Compagnie
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1911
- Language:
- Silent, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Short, Comedy, Early Cinema, Silent Cinema, Women
- Notes:
- Cunégonde travels down the street, picking up a ragtag group of animals on her promenade.
+ Gisèle a manqué le train
- Alternate Title:
- Gisèle Missed Her Train
- Production Co:
- Lux Compagnie
- Running Time:
- Short. 10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1912
- Language:
- Silent with French intertitles, optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Short, Comedy, Early Cinema, Silent Cinema, Women
- Notes:
- Gisèle, off to visit her father, misses the train and decides to walk. Along the way, she meets a poor Gypsy family who offer her a lift.
+ Zoé à la main malhereuse
- Alternate Title:
- Zoé the Unfortunate Housemaid
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1913
- Language:
- Silent, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Short, Comedy, Silent Cinema, Early Cinema, Women
- Notes:
- Zoé is hired as household help by a mistress who berates her incessantly. Disaster ensues after a trip to the market.
With optional commentary.
+ Zoé et le parapluie miraculeux
- Alternate Title:
- Zoé and the Miraculous Umbrella
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1913
- Language:
- Silent, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Short, Comedy, Silent Cinema, Early Cinema, Women
- Notes:
- Zoé attends the theater, where she witnesses a magician perform with an umbrella that can provoke the downpour of unlikely objects. Desiring this power for herself, she steals the umbrella and wreaks havoc across town.
With optional commentary.
+ Rosalie et son phonographe
- Alternate Title:
- Rosalie and her Phonograph
- Director:
- Bosetti, Romeo
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1911
- Language:
- Silent with Dutch intertitles, optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles
- Genre:
- Silent Cinema, Early Cinema, Comedy
- Notes:
- Rosalie’s new phonograph proves to have special powers, propelling and misdirecting people and furniture across her home.
+ Rosalie emménage
- Alternate Title:
- Rosalie Moves In
- Director:
- Bosetti, Romeo
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1911
- Language:
- Silent, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Silent Cinema, Early Cinema, Comedy
- Notes:
- With her usual lack of tact, Rosalie moves into a new home and attempts to decorate to disastrous results.
+ Rosalie a la maladie du sommeil
- Alternate Title:
- Rosalie Has Sleeping Sickness
- Director:
- Bosetti, Romeo
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1911
- Language:
- Silent with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Short, Comedy, Silent Cinema, Early Cinema
- Notes:
- Rosalie attempts to keep up with her housekeeping responsibilities while repeatedly falling asleep on the job.
+ Rosalie et ses meubles fidèles
- Alternate Title:
- Rosalie and Her Faithful Furniture
- Director:
- Bosetti, Romeo
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1911
- Language:
- Silent with Dutch intertitles, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Short, Comedy, Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Rosalie’s furniture is repossessed, and she is thrown from her living quarters. When she passes the secondhand store, her late possessions, recognizing their former mistress, dance for joy and follow her back home.
+ Little Moritz demande Rosalie en mariage
- Alternate Title:
- Little Moritz Wants to Marry Rosalie
- Director:
- Bosetti, Romeo
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1911
- Language:
- Silent with Dutch intertitles, optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Short, Comedy, Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Little Moritz visits Rosalie’s father to ask for her hand in marriage.
+ Little Moritz enlève Rosalie
- Alternate Title:
- Little Moritz Runs Away With Rosalie
- Director:
- Gambart, Henri
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1911
- Language:
- Silent with French intertitles, optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Short, Comedy, Silent Cinema, Early Cinema
- Notes:
- Failing to procure her father’s blessing, Little Moritz runs away with Rosalie.
+ C’est la faute à Rosalie
- Alternate Title:
- It’s Rosalie’s Fault!
- Director:
- Bosetti, Romeo
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1912
- Language:
- Silent with Dutch intertitles, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Short, Comedy, Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Rosalie mistakenly lets a burglar into her mistress’s home.
+ singe de Pétronille, Le
- Alternate Title:
- Pétronille’s Monkey
- Director:
- Bosetti, Romeo; Rémond, Georges
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1913
- Language:
- Silent with Dutch intertitles, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Short, Comedy, Silent Cinema, Early Cinema
- Notes:
- Rosalie’s boyfriend offers her a monkey as a gift. The monkey quickly begins to cause trouble.
+ Pétronille gagne le grand steeple
- Alternate Title:
- Pétronille Wins the Grand Steeplechase
- Director:
- Bosetti, Romeo; Rémond, Georges
- Production Co:
- Société Française des Films Éclair
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1913
- Language:
- Silent with Dutch intertitles, optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Short, Comedy, Silent Cinema, Early Cinema
- Notes:
- Rosalie, refusing to give up when her husband is disqualified from the big horse race, opts to hop in the saddle herself.
+ Patouillard a une femme jalouse
- Alternate Title:
- Patouillard has a Jealous Wife
- Director:
- Bosetti, Romeo
- Production Co:
- Lux Compagnie
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1912
- Language:
- Silent with Dutch intertitles, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Short, Comedy, Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Patouillard’s wife begins to suspect he is having an extramarital affair; taking matters into her own hands, she begins to follow her husband and the woman whom she believes to be the object of his affections.
+ Gavroche à Luna-Park
- Alternate Title:
- Gavroche at Luna Park
- Director:
- Bosetti, Romeo
- Production Co:
-
Société Française des Films Éclair
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1912
- Language:
- Silent with Dutch intertitles, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Short, Comedy, Silent Cinema, Early Cinema
- Notes:
- Causing offense to the fortune-telling woman in the park, Gavroche finds himself chased by the woman and a squadron of police.
+ désespoir de Pétronille, Le
- Alternate Title:
- Pétronille’s Despair
- Director:
- Bosetti, Romeo; Rémond, Georges
- Production Co:
- Cinéma Éclair
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1914
- Language:
- Silent with Dutch intertitles, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Short, Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Pétronille, despondent after being apparently jilted by her fiancé, attempts, unsuccessfully, to commit suicide.
+ fureur de Mme Plumette, Le
- Alternate Title:
- Madame Plumette’s Fury
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1912
- Language:
- Silent with Dutch intertitles, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Short, Comedy, Silent Cinema, Early Cinema
- Notes:
- Madame Plumette takes out her ire against her husband upon her fellow townsfolk.
With optional commentary.
+ Intro to Fatty and Minnie-He-Haw
- Production Co:
- Kino Lorber
- Running Time:
- Short. 9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 2022
- Language:
- English, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Documentary, Interview
- Notes:
- An introduction to silent film stars Fatty and Minnie-He-Haw by Arigon Starr.
+ Fatty and Minnie-He-Haw
- Director:
- Arbuckle, Roscoe “Fatty”
- Production Co:
- Keystone Film Company
- Running Time:
- Short. 22 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1914
- Language:
- Silent with English intertitles, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Short, Comedy, Western, Early Cinema, Silent Cinema, Indigenous History, Native-American Interest
- Notes:
- Fatty, who steals a ride on a train, is left in the middle of nowhere. He wanders through the desert and passes out, where he is found by an Indigenous woman who attempts to win his affection.
+ Daisy Doodad’s Dial
- Director:
- Trimble, Laurence
- Production Co:
- Florence Turner Productions
- Running Time:
- Short. 9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1914
- Language:
- Silent with English intertitles, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Short, Comedy, Silent Cinema, Early Cinema
- Notes:
- Daisy and her husband both go in for a face-pulling contest, but when the big day comes she is unable to attend the competition, and her husband wins instead. When the next opportunity comes around, she is determined to win -- but gets a little over-enthusiastic on the way to the contest and finds herself in trouble!
Secondary musical score available.
+ Hypnotizing the Hypnotist
- Director:
- Trimble, Laurence
- Production Co:
- Vitagraph Company
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1911
- Language:
- Silent with English intertitles, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Short, Comedy, Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- As a woman consults a professional hypnotist, her father goes to another hypnotist and picks up a few tricks of his own.
With optional commentary.
+ Tilly’s Party
- Director:
- Fitzhamon, Lewin
- Production Co:
- Hepworth
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1911
- Language:
- Silent with English intertitles, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Short, Comedy, Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Midshipmen help unruly schoolgirls escape on cycles.
+ Marie est trop obéissante
- Alternate Title:
- Marie is Too Obedient
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1912
- Language:
- Silent with Dutch intertitles, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Short, Comedy, Silent Cinema, Early Cinema
- Notes:
- The introduction of a new dog in the house causes Marie to have trouble discerning which animals are her responsibility to feed.
+ Onésime et la toilette de mademoiselle Badinois
- Alternate Title:
- Onésime and Mademoiselle Badinois’ Outfit
- Director:
- Durand, Jean
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1912
- Language:
- Silent with Dutch intertitles, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Short, Comedy, Silent Cinema, Early Cinema
- Notes:
- Pétronille, a Maid, borrows one of her employer's dress to go out with her boyfriend, Onésime; but the outfit is ruined during the meeting.
+ Non! Tu ne sortiras pas sans moi
- Alternate Title:
- No! You’re Not Going Anywhere Without Me
- Director:
- Durand, Jean; Guy, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1911
- Language:
- Silent with French intertitles, with optional Spanish, French, or English subtitles.
- Genre:
- Short, Comedy, Silent Cinema, Early Cinema
- Notes:
- A couple bickers over the wife’s desire to go shopping alone.
+ Lucky Jim
- Director:
- Griffith, D.W.
- Production Co:
- American Mutoscope & Biograph
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1909
- Language:
- Silent with English intertitles, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Short, Drama, Silent Cinema, Early Cinema
- Notes:
- Gertrude chooses Jim over Jack, which makes Jack very jealous. Later Jim dies, and Jack marries Gertrude. He finds himself once again very jealous of the late Lucky Jim.
With optional commentary.
+ Nellie, the Beautiful Housemaid [Fragment]
- Production Co:
- Vitagraph Company of America
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1908
- Language:
- Silent with English intertitles, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Genre:
- Comedy, Short, Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Three elderly bachelors place an advertisement in the paper for a housemaid.