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Matrimony's Speed Limit
''Matrimony's Speed Limit'' is a 1913 silent film, silent short film produced and directed by pioneering female film maker Alice Guy-Blaché. It was produced by Solax Studios when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey, at the beginning of the 20th century. It is one of only about 150 films surviving out of the more than one thousand produced and/or directed by Guy-Blaché. The film's preservation, along with a few others by Guy-Blaché, was initially financed by the Women's Film Preservation Fund upon its inauguration in 1995. It was selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2003. In December 2018, Kino Lorber released a six-disc box, ''Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers'', made in cooperation with the Library of Congress, the British Film Institute and others. The first disc of the set is devoted to the films of Guy-Blaché and includes ''Matrimony's Speed Limit'' (1913). Plo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Guy-Blaché
Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché ( Guy; ; 1 July 1873 – 24 March 1968) was a French pioneer film director. She was one of the first filmmakers to make a Narrative film, narrative fiction film, as well as the first woman to direct a film. From 1896 to 1906, she was probably the only female filmmaker in the world. She experimented with Gaumont Film Company, Gaumont's Chronophone Sync sound, sync-sound system, and with color-tinting, interracial casting, and special effects. She was artistic director and a co-founder of Solax Studios in Flushing, New York. In 1912, Solax invested $100,000 for a new studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey, the center of American filmmaking prior to the establishment of Hollywood. That year, she made the film ''A Fool and His Money (1912 film), A Fool and His Money'', probably the first to have an all-African Americans, African-American cast. The film is now preserved at the National Center for Film and Video Preservation at the American Film Institute for i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |