[5][6] In December 2018, Kino Lorber released a six-disc box, Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers, made in cooperation with the Library of Congress, the British Film Institute and others.
The first disc of the set is devoted to the films of Guy-Blaché and includes Matrimony's Speed Limit (1913).
[7][8] The story concerns a young man (Fraunie Fraunholz) who refuses to accept financial assistance from his wealthy girlfriend (Marian Swayne) in favor of earning his fortune on the stock market.
With only minutes to go before the deadline expires, he gives up his search and intends to commit suicide under the wheels of the next passing car.
[9] In a brief essay written for a program at the Library of Congress, Professor Margaret Hennefeld remarks that the protagonist's encounter with the Black woman reveals that "the speed limit of matrimony is, in fact, racial miscegenation (in 1913 American culture)," and that the film "represents a crucial historical text that comically meditates upon the gendered, class, and racial fantasies and anxieties of early twentieth century American culture.