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Early Women Filmmakers: An International Anthology

Making an American Citizen

14m

Directed by Alice Guy Blaché • 1912 • United States
Starring Lee Beggs, Blanche Cornwall

Alice Guy Blaché depicts the pressures to assimilate faced by immigrants in this tale of an Eastern European couple who come to the United States, where the husband learns four lessons in “Americanism.”

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