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Lois Weber, 1915: Gabriel the Ascetic (Courtenay Foote) carves a nude statue of Purity and is killed by the mob that asked for it. The same parish, years later, will not follow the Naked Truth when she walks through their drawing rooms. Weber uses traveling double exposures so Margaret Edwards, unclothed as Truth, appears in pulpits and parlors that refuse to look. The scandal sold tickets; the sermon is about who will not see.
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Women Pioneers of Silent Cinema
Lois Weber wrote and directed this 1915 sermon about people who will not look, using traveling double exposures so Margaret Edwards, unclothed as the Naked Truth, walks through pulpits and parlors that refuse her. Courtenay Foote's Gabriel carves a nude Purity and is killed by the mob that asked for it. The scandal sold tickets; Weber controlled both the sermon and the box office. A woman director put an unclothed allegory through American censors, kept her name above the title, and let the audience decide whether they would look at what she had cut.
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