Lois Weber, or the exigency of writing Part six William D. Routt     Uploaded 1 March 2001 9335 words  Abstract | Printer version Table of contents 1 The exigency of writing 2 On writing and directing 3 Lois Weber, writer of cinema 4 Lois Weber, writing exigence 5 Lois Weber and the mirror of cinema 6 Appendix: Lois Weber's surviving films
6 Appendix: Lois Weber's surviving films This essay has been based on a very few films - those three features which I could view and review during its writing: Hypocrites (available in a restored version through Kino on Video [http://www.kino.com/newstuff/firstladies.html] and in a 16mm print taken from the Australian original print held by Cinemedia Australia [http://www.cinemedia.net/]), The blot (available through Mediabay [http://www.mediabay.com/]) and Too wise wives (available in a tape called "America's First Women Filmmakers" for purchase in the Library of Congress Video Collection distributed by Smithsonian Video [gopher://marvel.loc.gov/00/research/reading.rooms/motion.picture/sales/vidsale]). I understand that a print of Where are my children? has been screened on the Turner network in the United States. Anthony Slide suggests that at least some material from 17 Lois Weber titles has survived. Some he mentions as having been preserved in the Library of Congress: A Japanese idyll (1912); False colours (1914 incomplete); Hypocrites (1915); It's no laughing matter (1915 incomplete); Sunshine Molly (1916 incomplete); Shoes (1916 incomplete); Discontent (1916); Where are my children? (1916); To please one woman (1920); What's worth while? (1921); The blot (1921); Too wise wives (1921); A chapter in her life (1923); The marriage clause (1926 incomplete). He lists Suspense (1913) as having been preserved in the British National Film Archive. Two others he describes as though he has seen them, and I assume they exist somewhere: The dumb girl of Portici (1916) and Sensation seekers (1926). Kevin Brownlow says that a variant, "European version" of Where are my children? also exists.[32]	[32] Brownlow, 50.
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