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Make More Noise! Suffragettes in Silent Film (1899-1917)

Contents: to come.

The films are accompanied by music scores composed and performed by Lillian Henley.

Supplemental material includes Suffragette Demonstration in London (1910), newsreel of an early suffragette mass march (3 minutes); Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor (1910), the Tilly girls star in this mischievous comedy (6 minutes); London Factory Girls on Strike in Camden Town (1911), newsreel footage of the strikers (27 seconds); Suffragette Pageant in London (1911), footage of the Women’s Coronation Procession (1 minute); London Church Completely Destroyed by Fire (1913), newsreel of an arson attack (1 minute); St. Leonard’s Outrage (1913), footage of an arson attack on a MP’s home (1 minute); Suffragette Derby of 1913 (1913), Gaumont’s footage of the derby (5 minutes); Law Abiding Suffragists in Hyde Park (1913), a mass NUWSS meeting (1 minute); Suffragettes Again (1913), newsreel of an arson attack in Plymouth (1 minute); Trafalgar Square Meeting (1916), Mrs. Pankhurst and Mrs. Dacre Fox address the crowd (1 minute); Labour’s First Woman MP (1922), short clip of Susan Lawrence (14 seconds); Lady Astor (Conservative) in Again for Plymouth (1923), the first female MP celebrates another win (13 seconds); and an insert booklet with essays by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Bryony Dixon and Lillian Henley, with film notes and credits.

This is our recommended home video edition of these films. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.

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