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Women Pioneers of Silent CinemaFilm 6 of 22
Won in a Closet
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Mabel Normand, Keystone, January 1914: her second film as director, a one-reel comedy. Mabel's father, the country constable, courts the mother of the boy Mabel has decided is her ideal. Two rival cut-ups and a supposed tramp in a closet interrupt the romance. Moving Picture World called it a nonsense number. Long thought lost; a print turned up in New Zealand in 2010 as Won in a Cupboard and reached the Library of Congress through the New Zealand Project.
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Women Pioneers of Silent Cinema
Mabel Normand directed this Keystone one-reeler herself in January 1914, her second film as director, and she is also the girl who decides the constable's son is her ideal. Moving Picture World called it a nonsense number; the credit line is the news. Long thought lost, a print turned up in New Zealand in 2010 under the British title Won in a Cupboard and reached the Library of Congress through the New Zealand Project. Sennett's lot is usually told as a factory of men. This is one of the reels a woman signed, and it is the earliest of hers that survives from behind the camera.
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