Looking Forward to 2010 (1910)
The 1910 film Looking Forward, directed by Theodore Marston, imagines a crazy dystopia where women rule the world. Because, as this film accurately predicted, women naturally became a political majority after getting the vote. The description below of Looking Forward is excerpted from Eric Dewberry’s paper, “A Happy Medium: Women’s Suffrage Portrayals in Thanhouser Films,…
