Filmstill Sufragette in Spite

A Suffragette in Spite of Himself

Director: Bannister Merwin | United Kingdom, USA 1912 | 8 min | 16mm | silent | with Marc McDermott, Ethel Browning, Miriam Nesbitt

A gentleman who's opposed to and mocks women's suffrage goes for a walk and unknowingly becomes an advertisement for it. The film makes a direct reference to the actions of the English suffragette movement at the beginning of the 20th century. A suffragette opponent involuntarily becomes a propagandist for the movement through the prank of two young boys. However, the maid has the last word.

Loan of the film print with kind support of Metropolis Archiv - Kinemathek Hamburg.METROPOLIS+_1920_neg