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Make More Noise: Suffragettes in Silent Film
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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MAKE MORE NOISE: SUFFRAGETTES IN SILENT FlLM (DVD)
Complementing the release of Sarah Gavron's Suffragette, this selection of siIent films from the BFI National Archive shows how suffragettes were portrayed on the cinema screen whiIe their battles were stiII been waged on the streets outside.
The suffragettes tactic was to stand up at every public event and cry votes for women! As Ieader Emmeline Pankhurst said in her Iegendary speech of November 1913: You have to make more noise than anybody eIse, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else. ln fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under.
And that meant film too: cinema was born just as the campaign was gathering momentum and the suffragettes made it their business to get in front of the cameras! This fascinating compilation of short films with a speciaIly commissioned score by Lillian Henley combines newsreels and documentaries with earIy comedies. Some offer grotesque parodies of femaIe militants (often pIayed by men in drag), but others feature unruly femaIe chiIdren who wreak havoc and still have the last laugh... These gIoriously anarchic comedies reveal as much about young women's aspirations as do the newsreels of demonstrations, arson attacks and other dramatic provocations.
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