Votes for Women (1912)
- Directed by
- Hal Reid
- Genre
- silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 20 min
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This silent film was made by the National American Woman Suffrage Association. It follows a dramatic story that shows why women should have the right to vote. The movie also includes real footage of a suffrage parade in New York City.
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What happens
Votes for Women is a 1912 American silent melodrama film directed by Hal Reid. It was produced by Reliance Film Company in partnership with the National American Woman Suffrage Association and was written by suffragists Mary Ware Dennett, Harriet Laidlaw, and Frances Maule Bjorkman. The film starred Edgena De Lespine, and featured cameos by prominent suffragists, including Anna Howard Shaw, Jane Addams, and Inez Milholland, and incorporated documentary footage of a women's suffrage parade in New York City. It was named by historian Kevin Brownlow as “the first important suffrage film.” The film was released just 20 days after the first suffrage movement-produced film, Suffrage and the Man, a romantic comedy centering on a young man who goes from being troubled by his fiancée's interest in women's rights to supportive of her empowerment. As reported by Motion Picture News in 1911, "the suffragettes in this city...[recently] decided that motion picture films should be made showing the suffrage cause in the best light" since "this was the best way in which thousands of people might be instructed who otherwise would never hear of the suffrage cause." Similarly to Suffrage and the Man, Votes for Women features an engaged couple, Senator Herman and Jane Wadsworth, in order to show that "woman suffrage and romance could coexist." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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