In that sense I think there was a great difference between the two, Anthony being a better and more willing politician and Stanton really chafing in that role to the point that she wouldn’t even attend conventions often just because she couldn’t stand all the politicking that had to go on.There are big personality differences between the two in that I think Stanton in many ways enjoyed a different side of life than Anthony did.

Another still photographer—Elaine Mayes—was extremely instrumental. These ancient Shaker women in their 90s gave us and imparted so much of the beauty of their discipline and aesthetic life.

They seemed to me all to have been notions that were born of the women’s movement in the [19]60s and 70s.That can be turned around and put in a much more positive light. So that to have a history denied to a whole group of people (and I mean men and women) is to essentially deny us a part of our future, because it denies us the kind of education that we need to satisfy all of our parts. Not until their deaths was their shared vision of women’s suffrage realized. Explore More.

Trying always to how exactly to what happened, but to try to find ways—in the way I shoot old photographs, in the way I do the interviews, in the way I pick the music, in the way I structure the films—that I think will be a delivery system that the most ignorant but curious of us can handle.

What one didn’t have, the other seemed to supply and vice versa. Buck O’Neill who is a true mentor for the Baseball series. I just love the irony that here is the nation celebrating its first hundredth year birthday and Stanton and Anthony and the women are being denied any kind of participation in it. Once the video passes the Civil War era (to the requisite tune of "Rally Round the Flag"), Not for Ourselves Alone focuses almost solely on suffrage.

Shelby Foote with the Civil War series. So both those things are covered and I think quite well, in the book.It’s a bit of a disappointment to me, but it’s hard with television. But again I think that they were wonderful goads to each other through their entire lives. But I’ve had many, many teachers. The final language might be primarily Stanton’s, but I do think a lot of the ideas and facts and the desire for change in women’s lives is something that Anthony probably had a major contribution in terms of those speeches that were being presented in the public.Later in their lives, a big difference between the two was that Anthony really did become a politician. Again, it was a sequence we had in for awhile and never seemed to quite get right and made the hard decision to exclude it. Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony A Great Partnership Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton made for a formidable partnership. And Anthony’s wonderful relationship with her sister Mary, I would have loved to had a little more time to do something with that.

Robert Penn Warren, who helped me in my film on Huey Long. Anthony plans this radical action of taking over the stage and presenting the newly-written Declaration of Sentiments as a media event, which she always had wanted to do. With Antoinette Cellier, Niall MacGinnis, Maire O'Neill, John Lodge. The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony: Not For Ourselves Alone is a co-production of Florentine Films and WETA. I’d say it’s possible to add to extraordinary content a formal aspect that makes it more exciting, digestible to a wide audience, and that’s what I try to do. She enjoyed sexual pleasures and relaxation and Anthony seems to be much more monomaniacal in her obsession with her work and willing to give up home life or friends or family in order to pursue these goals that she was after.

PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.Suffragettes fought for voting rights for American women, but some people struggled with the social changes that this brouSusan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton may have been very different people, but together they formed a great – and coWhen Susan B. Anthony introduced the Declaration of Sentiments at the first convention on women's rights, she prompted a pSuffragettes fought tirelessly for a woman's right to vote, but it was a difficult endeavor. Very often when we have to make these decisions that for reasons of time or for reasons of dramatic shape we just can’t tell the story, if there is a book that accompanies it, those sequences will go into the book.

I think Stanton found herself a difficult role as a politician.