Lois Weber

Lois Weber was the leading female director-screenwriter in early Hollywood. She began her career alongside her husband, Phillips Smalley, after the two had worked together in the theatre. They began working in motion pictures around 1907, often billed under the collective title “The Smalleys.” In their early years at studios like Gaumont and Reliance, they acted alongside one another on-screen and codirected scripts written by Weber. Indeed, their status as a married, middle-class couple was often used to enhance their reputation for highbrow, quality pictures. In 1912, they were placed in charge of the Rex brand at the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, where they produced one or two one-reel films each week with a stock company of actors, quickly turning the brand into one of the studio’s most sophisticated. The couple increasingly turned their attention to multireel films, completing a four-reel production of The Merchant of Venice in 1914, the first American feature directed by a woman. Later that year they moved from Universal to Hobart Bosworth Productions where they were given more freedom to make feature-length films, among them Hypocrites (1915)

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Toronto's "Girl Workers." The Female Body and Industrial Efficiency in Her Own Fault

Her Own Fault est un film éducatif, produit en 1921 par le Conseil provincial de la santé de l’Ontario au sein de sa division de l’hygiène industrielle. Dans sa volonté d’influencer les femmes travailleuses de Toronto, le film fait état de certains défis posés aux travailleuses d’usine au début du siècle. Cet article situe Her Own Fault en rapport à un autre discours contemporain sur le travail des femmes et leurs habitudes de loisirs. L’auteure considère aussi le traitement que le film fait des travailleuses et les façons dont il circonscrit leur comportement et leur regard.Her Own Fault is an instructional film produced by Ontario's Provincial Board of Health through its Division of Industrial Hygiene in 1921. In its attempt to influence Toronto's working women, the film suggests some of the challenges posed by the female factory worker in the early part of the century. This article will situate Her Own Fault in relation to othet contemporary discourse on women's work and leisure habits. The author will also consider the film's treatment of female factory workers and the ways in which this film might circumscribe net behaviour and net gaze