Matrimony's Speed Limit

Matrimony's Speed Limit
Directed byAlice Guy-Blaché
Produced byAlice Guy-Blaché
StarringFraunie Fraunholz
Marian Swayne
Production
company
Distributed byExclusive Supply Corporation
Release date
  • 1913 (1913)
Running time
14 minutes
CountryUnited States

Matrimony's Speed Limit is a 1913 silent short film produced and directed by pioneering female film maker Alice Guy-Blaché. It was produced by Solax Studios when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey, at the beginning of the 20th century.[1][2][3] It is one of only about 150 films surviving out of the more than one thousand produced and/or directed by Guy-Blaché.

The film's preservation, along with a few others by Guy-Blaché, was initially financed by the Women's Film Preservation Fund upon its inauguration in 1995.[4] It was selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2003.[5][6]

In December 2018, Kino Lorber released a six-disc box, Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers, made in cooperation with the Library of Congress, the British Film Institute and others. The first disc of the set is devoted to the films of Guy-Blaché and includes Matrimony's Speed Limit (1913).[7][8]

  1. ^ Koszarski, Richard (2004), Fort Lee: The Film Town, Rome, Italy: John Libbey Publishing -CIC srl, ISBN 0-86196-653-8
  2. ^ "Studios and Films". Fort Lee Film Commission. Archived from the original on 2011-04-25. Retrieved 2011-05-30.
  3. ^ Fort Lee Film Commission (2006), Fort Lee Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 0-7385-4501-5
  4. ^ "Women's Film Preservation Fund". Retrieved November 27, 2020.
  5. ^ "Films selected to the 2003 National Film Registry". Associated Press. December 16, 2003.
  6. ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
  7. ^ Castillo, Monica (26 December 2018). "Kino Lorber's Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers Box Set is a Treasure Trove of Silent Film History | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert". www.rogerebert.com. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
  8. ^ "'Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers' Brings Forth a Time When, Unlike Today, Women Made Lots of Movies". PopMatters. 2019-01-25. Retrieved 2020-05-05.