Gertrude Stein: Home Movie and Upcoming Exhibition

The Beinecke Library (Yale University) recently uploaded a Gertrude Stein Home Movie to YouTube. A portion of this short movie includes scenes of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas at the Hotel Pernollet in Belley, France. The Beinecke Library also offers online access to correspondence, manuscripts, and photographs in the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers.

Exhibition Catalog

Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories, an upcoming exhibition at the  Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, focuses on these themes:  Picturing Gertrude; Domestic Stein; the Art of Friendship; Celebrity Stein; and Legacies. The exhibition catalog is available from the University of California Press.

Another upcoming exhibition, The Steins Collect, will run at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from May 21 to September 6, 2011.

Pioneering Woman Directors (National Film Preservation Foundation)

Pioneering Woman Directors
This web exhibition from NFPF's Treasures from American Film Archives DVD showcases work by five women filmmakers:

• Falling Leaves (1912) Preserved by the Library of Congress
• The Hazards of Helen: Episode 13 (1915) Preserved by the Library of Congress
• Peyote Queen (1965) Preserved by Anthology Film Archives
• Rural Life in Maine (ca. 1930) Preserved by Northeast Historic Film
• Where Are My Children? (1916) Preserved by the Library of Congress

The Hazards of Helen: Episode 13 (1915), directed by Helen Holmes and Leo Maloney.

Preserving Historic Films

The National Film Preservation Foundation site offers online access to examples of its preservation work. Three of these films document the history of women:

Wohelo Camp (ca. 1919) (Northeast Historic Film), a promotional film about the pioneering all-girls summer camp in Maine, includes footage of the girls involved in a variety of activities: jewelry making, pottery, canoeing, cooking, gardening, and horseback riding.

Manhattan Trade School for Girls (1911) (George Eastman House) This  promotional documentary film (16 min., 10 sec) includes footage of students playing basketball, dancing, cooking, sewing, and making hats. Jennifer M. Bean's commentary provides historical context throughout the film.

A Trip through Japan with the YWCA (ca. 1919) includes footage of women in traditional occupations,  fleeting images of workers outside a textile factory, and scenes with Ainu women (pictured at left). For background on the Ainu, see Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People (Smithsonian Institution in Association with University of Washington Press, 1999).