Women Film Pioneers Project is a freely accessible, collaborative, online-only database resource, produced with support from Columbia University. Women

"Maria P. Williams – Women Film Pioneers Project". wfpp.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-11. "Tressie Souders – Women Film Pioneers Project". wfpp.columbia

pub. Lewis Carroll Society, pages 146-7. "Dorothea Baird". Women Film Pioneers Project at Columbia University. Retrieved 25 May 2018. "The St Pancras

2015-11-28. Buck, Julie (September 27, 2013). "Jane Murfin". Women Film Pioneers Project. Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, Columbia University

cinema Black women film pioneers Pioneers of African-American Cinema Race film Afi, American Film; Gevinson, Alan; Institute, American Film (1997). Within

^Florence Lawrence, Women Film Pioneers Project. Accessed September 23, 2015. "Florence Lawrence intended her last Victor photoplay to be her second two-…

About the Project “One of these days men are going to get over the fool idea that women have no brains…and quit getting insulted at the thought that a sk…

Projections Projections is a new platform for posts and essays of varying lengths, multimedia content, and digital-friendly approaches to silent film res…

Resource Index The Resources section offers a broad range of useful tools and resources (digital, print, and audio-visual) for further research and engag…

From 1931 to 1937, Hu Ping was a well-known left-wing film star and film critic (“Progressive Star”). Her abrupt withdrawal from the film industry in 1937…

Eva Nil A delicate hand-colored photograph of Eva Nil’s face graces the cover of 50 Years of Film Archives, 1938-1988, edited by the International Federa…

How to Contribute Please note that our publication process will be moving at a much slower pace during the 2022-2023 academic year. We are not accepting …

If we merely looked at contemporary advertisements and reviews, it would appear that Musidora had directed only two films in the silent era: Vicenta (1919…

Aili Kari made a career for herself in the early Finnish film industry, but her name is very seldom remembered or mentioned. During the silent era, she w…

Pearl Ing, or Yin Mingzhu, was the first woman to play the leading role in a film made in Shanghai—the earliest center of Chinese filmmaking. Ing’s origi…

Iris Barry This particular pioneer had a transcontinental career. As a result, her profile will include multiple essays by different authors. Her America…

Tsuru Aoki is best remembered as the wife of Sessue Hayakawa, and certainly Aoki’s role as adoring wife on- and off-screen was extremely important to the…

In marking the death of Leah Baird, known chiefly as an actor in the silent period, Variety stated that she “was reputed to have written some of her own …

Herminia Pérez de León, who adopted the pseudonym of Mimí Derba when she made her debut as a singer in Mexican theatre at the age of seventeen, was one o…

Born in 1903 as Peng Jianqing, Helen Wang was raised in a traditional scholarly family within a confined compound in Wuhu, Anhui Province. She was the on…

In 1946, the Seattle Times described the visit of a young Chinese-American filmmaker: “Still in her teens, and with no background of such a venture, Esth…

Actress Mae Murray’s famous epithet, “The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips” describes far more than her cupid-bowed mouth; it evokes something unusual, distr…

Theatrical actress Vera McCord wrote, produced, and directed her one and only independent feature motion picture, the semi-scandalous The Good-Bad Wife , …

Commonly known as the Pathé Frère company’s “Peerless Fearless Girl,” or the “Heroine of a Thousand Stunts,” Pearl White’s undaunted and adventurous pers…

Alva Lundin The practice of rendering inter-title cards more decorative and expressive by means of creative typography, ornate borders or other types of …

Maude Adams was a hugely successful American stage actress of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She was perhaps most famous for her perf…

Leila Lewis In 1920, Leila Lewis gave a lecture to the Women’s Freedom League, a UK organization that campaigned for suffrage and sexual equality. The su…

Fan Xuepeng was a luminous Chinese film star through the silent era and into the sound era. She was perhaps most famous for her performance as knightly f…

Flora Finch, like many actresses from the period, tried to capitalize on her fame by starting her own self-titled film production company. Although Flora…

Bibliography The following is an in-progress list of helpful general academic and archival print resources that relate to early cinema more broadly, as w…

Women Film Pioneers Project Biographical Data The Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP) is a digital publication and resource that advances research on the …

The Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP), published October 2013, is an online scholarly resource several years in development that expands on the unherald…

Related to your search As vital partners in the University's research and learning ecosystem, Columbia University Libraries connects users with rich and …

Women Film Pioneers Project , a digital publication and resource that advances research on the hundreds of women who worked behind the scenes during the s…

Women Film Pioneers Project is a freely accessible, collaborative, online-only database resource, produced with support from Columbia University. Women

"Maria P. Williams – Women Film Pioneers Project". wfpp.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-11. "Tressie Souders – Women Film Pioneers Project". wfpp.columbia

pub. Lewis Carroll Society, pages 146-7. "Dorothea Baird". Women Film Pioneers Project at Columbia University. Retrieved 25 May 2018. "The St Pancras

2015-11-28. Buck, Julie (September 27, 2013). "Jane Murfin". Women Film Pioneers Project. Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, Columbia University

cinema Black women film pioneers Pioneers of African-American Cinema Race film Afi, American Film; Gevinson, Alan; Institute, American Film (1997). Within

^Florence Lawrence, Women Film Pioneers Project. Accessed September 23, 2015. "Florence Lawrence intended her last Victor photoplay to be her second two-…

About the Project “One of these days men are going to get over the fool idea that women have no brains…and quit getting insulted at the thought that a sk…

Projections Projections is a new platform for posts and essays of varying lengths, multimedia content, and digital-friendly approaches to silent film res…

Resource Index The Resources section offers a broad range of useful tools and resources (digital, print, and audio-visual) for further research and engag…

From 1931 to 1937, Hu Ping was a well-known left-wing film star and film critic (“Progressive Star”). Her abrupt withdrawal from the film industry in 1937…

Eva Nil A delicate hand-colored photograph of Eva Nil’s face graces the cover of 50 Years of Film Archives, 1938-1988, edited by the International Federa…

How to Contribute Please note that our publication process will be moving at a much slower pace during the 2022-2023 academic year. We are not accepting …

If we merely looked at contemporary advertisements and reviews, it would appear that Musidora had directed only two films in the silent era: Vicenta (1919…

Aili Kari made a career for herself in the early Finnish film industry, but her name is very seldom remembered or mentioned. During the silent era, she w…

Pearl Ing, or Yin Mingzhu, was the first woman to play the leading role in a film made in Shanghai—the earliest center of Chinese filmmaking. Ing’s origi…

Iris Barry This particular pioneer had a transcontinental career. As a result, her profile will include multiple essays by different authors. Her America…

Tsuru Aoki is best remembered as the wife of Sessue Hayakawa, and certainly Aoki’s role as adoring wife on- and off-screen was extremely important to the…

In marking the death of Leah Baird, known chiefly as an actor in the silent period, Variety stated that she “was reputed to have written some of her own …

Herminia Pérez de León, who adopted the pseudonym of Mimí Derba when she made her debut as a singer in Mexican theatre at the age of seventeen, was one o…

Born in 1903 as Peng Jianqing, Helen Wang was raised in a traditional scholarly family within a confined compound in Wuhu, Anhui Province. She was the on…

In 1946, the Seattle Times described the visit of a young Chinese-American filmmaker: “Still in her teens, and with no background of such a venture, Esth…

Actress Mae Murray’s famous epithet, “The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips” describes far more than her cupid-bowed mouth; it evokes something unusual, distr…

Theatrical actress Vera McCord wrote, produced, and directed her one and only independent feature motion picture, the semi-scandalous The Good-Bad Wife , …

Commonly known as the Pathé Frère company’s “Peerless Fearless Girl,” or the “Heroine of a Thousand Stunts,” Pearl White’s undaunted and adventurous pers…

Alva Lundin The practice of rendering inter-title cards more decorative and expressive by means of creative typography, ornate borders or other types of …

Maude Adams was a hugely successful American stage actress of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She was perhaps most famous for her perf…

Leila Lewis In 1920, Leila Lewis gave a lecture to the Women’s Freedom League, a UK organization that campaigned for suffrage and sexual equality. The su…

Fan Xuepeng was a luminous Chinese film star through the silent era and into the sound era. She was perhaps most famous for her performance as knightly f…

Flora Finch, like many actresses from the period, tried to capitalize on her fame by starting her own self-titled film production company. Although Flora…

Bibliography The following is an in-progress list of helpful general academic and archival print resources that relate to early cinema more broadly, as w…

Women Film Pioneers Project Biographical Data The Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP) is a digital publication and resource that advances research on the …

The Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP), published October 2013, is an online scholarly resource several years in development that expands on the unherald…

Related to your search As vital partners in the University's research and learning ecosystem, Columbia University Libraries connects users with rich and …

Women Film Pioneers Project , a digital publication and resource that advances research on the hundreds of women who worked behind the scenes during the s…