Rediscovering The Women Who Built The Early Film Industry

“In the early years of the twentieth century, women worked in virtually every aspect of silent-film-making, as directors, writers, producers, editors, and even camera operators. The industry — new, ad hoc, making up its own rules as it went along — had not yet locked in a strict division of labor by gender. … Now we are in the midst of a new round of rediscoveries — this time of women’s behind-the-camera roles well into the golden age of Hollywood.” – The New Yorker