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Suffragettes In The Silent Cinema
Suffragettes In The Silent Cinema
USA, 2003, 36’, English
Director: Kay Sloan
In the early days of silent movies, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the new film industry found a wealth of entertainment in the Votes for Women Movement in Great Britain and the United States. Comedies, melodramas, and newsreels brought the woman suffrage movement onto the screens of the nation’s new nickelodeons. As politicians refused to give women the vote, film satires and comedies told their audiences that women belonged in the home, not in the voting booth. The films in Suffragettes in the Silent Cinema expose the crude stereotypes faced by the woman suffragists.
