Where Are My Children? (1916) Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley tackle the topics of birth control, eugenics, and abortion

u/NoResolution599 — 1 month ago

Sold For Marriage (1916) one of 5 surviving non-Griffith directed Lillian Gish films made prior to her departure from his studio in 1921. This is the only one I've been able to find online.

u/NoResolution599 — 2 months ago
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La Belle Au Bois Dormant (1908) the earliest surviving film adaptation of Sleeping Beauty

u/3d-ward — 2 months ago

Home, Sweet Home (1914) Angelic Lillian Gish saves Henry B. Walthall from Hell

in her autobiography, Lillian Gish said of this scene, "So we flew backward into eternal bliss. Seen today [1969], it is a very funny spectacle. The audiences of that period, however, wouldn't have dreamed of laughing."

u/NoResolution599 — 4 months ago