Citation :
« The opening image [of Something New] shows a woman sitting under a tree. The decor, which includes Navajo rugs, a tent and a holstered gun, suggests that most masculine of genres, the western. The woman, positioned behind a table containing a typewriter, is staring into the distance. After a few seconds of silent contemplation, she begins typing, but breaks off almost immediately, glances miserably at the page before her, and places her elbows on the table, arranging her hands on either side of her head in a manner indicating frustration. The first intertitle appears at this point: 'A Lady in search of an Inspiration. ... Nell Shipman.' »
-- Brad Stevens

Source :
STEVENS, Brad. « Nell Shipman: an auteur in the wild; In the frame shots bracketing her 1920 western-with-an-automobile Something New, the silent-film pioneer wrote her own claims to cinematic authorship directly into the movie--decades before men coined the auteur theory », Sight & Sound, 1 mai 2019. [en anglais]