page_title: Women's suffrage in film
section_title: Films by suffragist organizations
hierarchical_section_title: Women's suffrage in film / General / Early silent films, 1898–1915 / Films by suffragist organizations
caption_attribution_description: English: Still from Your Girl and Mine, a 1914 pro-suffrage film.
context_page_description: Women's suffrage, the legal right of women to vote, has been depicted in film in a variety of ways since the invention of narrative film in the late nineteenth century. Some early films satirized and mocked suffragists and Suffragettes as "unwomanly" "man-haters," or sensationalized documentary footage. Suffragists countered these depictions by releasing narrative films and newsreels that argued for their cause. After women won the vote in countries with a national cinema, women's suffrage became a historical event depicted in both fiction and nonfiction films.
context_section_description: Inspired by Suffrage drama and other public performances, the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and the Women's Political Union (WPU) both produced films featuring suffragist heroines as social reformers who take on corrupt politicians. High-profile suffragists from their respective organizations made appearances in two of these films: Jane Addams and Anna Howard Shaw appeared in NAWSA's Votes for Women (1912), while Emmeline Pankhurst and Harriot Stanton Blatch appeared in WPU's 80 Million Women Want–? (1913).
  Chicago suffragists shot and screened footage to show first-time voters how to cast a ballot. 
  
  In 1914, NAWSA member Ruth Hanna McCormick released the pro-suffrage melodrama Your Girl and Mine. But suffragists found filmmaking too expensive to be sustainable and thus stopped making films after this.
caption: Image and caption from a New York Tribune article about the pro-suffrage film Your Girl and Mine (1914)
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