Lois Weber

Do you know what I mean? I mean, that's one for me anyway.

Yeah, I mean, message movies, as you point out, I mean, really almost at the outset of moviemaking, right? Whether it's like Lois Weber's Shoes in 1916 or King Vidor's The Crowd, 1928, I wanna say.

And it continues through the 1930s.

The 1930s, of course, is probably the peak of the message movies.

I'll just go through all of these.

Lois Weber.

I have no idea.

Never heard of this woman before.

Lois Weber.

She was born in 1879, died in 1939.

She was a filmmaker.

What's crazy, so we're talking about a filmmaker in the early part of the 20th century, right? She was tackling controversial, interesting, deep social issues.

Got it.

Universal holdovers Maurice Pivar and Lois Weber then decided to edit the films themsel- the film themselves.

They edited the production down-

I'm surprised-