| Summary: | INVERTED NARRATIVES is part of the retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. A 1913 advertisement for D.W. Griffith claimed credit for practically everything in the movies. With Suspense Weber and Smalley hijacked the plot of one of his Biograph's "A Woman Scorned" (1912) while showing Griffith a few things he hadn't thought of. However, the split-screens had been established earlier in Denmark. --KEVIN BROWNLOW Lois Weber, a former social worker, was a cinematic reformer, making films on social subjects in the teens with her husband Philips Smalley. The grandson of Oliver Wendall Holmes, Smalley was a veteran of theatre and opera. As one actress who worked with them said, "Lois Weber did the directing, Smalley did the shouting. -KEVIN BROWNLOW. 35mm 1.33:1 black and white silent with music 16fps 10:32 minutes. Production Rex Pictures.
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