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Hypocrites / Bosworth, Inc. presents ; written and produced by Lois Weber.
LIBRA DVD 004 106
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- First ladies, early women filmmakers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hypocrisy--Religious aspects--Christianity--Drama.
- Hypocrisy.
- Nudity--Religious aspects--Drama.
- Nudity.
- Religion and ethics--Drama.
- Religion and ethics.
- Monks--Drama.
- Monks.
- Ascetics--Drama.
- Ascetics.
- Fanaticism--Drama.
- Fanaticism.
- City clergy--Drama.
- City clergy.
- City churches--Drama.
- City churches.
- Big churches--Drama.
- Big churches.
- Worldliness--Drama.
- Worldliness.
- Urban women--Drama.
- Urban women.
- Female offenders--Drama.
- Female offenders.
- Nudity--Religious aspects.
- Hypocrisy--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Genre:
- Melodramas (Motion pictures)
- Feature films.
- Silent films.
- Short films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (65 min.) : silent, color tinted and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition:
- Digitally remastered versions.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Kino International, [2008]
- Language Note:
- Silent films with English intertitles and musical score.
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Hypocrites: Follows parallel stories of an early Christian ascetic and a modern minister. Gabriel is a medieval monk who devotes himself to completing a statue of "Truth," only to be murdered by a mob when his work turns out to be an image of a naked woman. The contemporary Gabriel is pastor of a large urban congregation for whom religion is a matter of appearances, not beliefs. The hypocrisy of the congregation is exposed by a series of vignettes in which the Naked Truth is portrayed by a naked woman, revealing their appetites for money, sex and power.
- Eleanor's catch: A delightful short, directed by and starring Cleo Madison. In this two-reeler, she plays a young city girl dragged into a life of crime by a ne'er-do-well suitor. A terrific surpise ending gives Cleo an early claim to promoting women's equality in the workforce.
- Contents:
- Hypocrites (1915, col. tinted, 50 min.)
- Eleanor's catch / Universal ; written by William V. Mong ; produced and directed by Cleo Madison (1916, b&w, 15 min.)
- Participant:
- Hypocrites: Courtenay Foote, Myrtle Stedman, Herbert Standing, Adele Farrington.
- Eleanor's catch: Cleo Madison, William V. Mong, Lule Warrenton, Ed Hearn, Margaret Whistler, Ray Hanford, Harry Mann.
- Credits:
- Photography, Dal Clawson, George Hill ; produced for video by Jessica Rosner ; original piano score composed and performed by Jon Mirsalis.
- Notes:
- Videodisc version of digitally remastered edition originally released on videocassette in 2000 by Kino International.
- Contains:
- Eleanor's catch
- OCLC:
- 226034822
- Publisher Number:
- K602 Kino International
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