Word: filming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Burns showed six clips totaling under a fourth of the film, adding historical background and commentary about the women's suffrage movement and its two pivotal leaders, Stanton and Anthony. The three-hour documentary, fourth in series of five biographical films, will be shown...
...Other film segments investigated the relationship between Anthony and Stanton and documented Stanton's emotional final speech, "The Solitude of Self," which Burns said is on a literary par with Emerson's "Self-Reliance...
...film] is focused initially on where [Stanton and Anthony] came from, their psychology and their friendship, but also on the political movement they founded," Burns said in an interview...
...said researching the film was difficult because the topic has not been scrutinized as much as other subjects in American history. But he said that he found many of his sources in the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, the presentation's sponsor and part of the newly formed Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study...
Susan W. Ware, editor of Notable AmericanWomen, a journal produced at Schlesinger Library, said Burns' film helps make Stanton and Anthony seem more real...