Movies: Alice Guy-Blaché

1906
The Consequences of Feminism (1906)
The Consequences of Feminism
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It's a society in which gender roles are switched. Will men stand to be unequal?...
2016
The Women Who Run Hollywood (2016)
The Women Who Run Hollywood
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The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more than 300 films over 10 years. Frances Marion wrote screenplays for the Hollywood Star Mary Pickford and won two Oscars, Dorothy Arzner was ...
1896
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy (1896)
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
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A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. This film is lost or never existed. Copies of it online are actually the 1900 remake....
1906
The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ (1906)
The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ
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The stations of Christ's life are segmented into a series of performative tableaux....
2018
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018)
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
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The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and ...
1907
On the Barricade (1907)
On the Barricade
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During the Paris Commune, a boy runs across trouble at the barricade....
1912
Falling Leaves (1912)
Falling Leaves
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It's early autumn and Dr. Headley eagerly demonstrates what seems to be a miraculous cure for tuberculosis. Not far from where he is working, the disease seems preparing to soon claim yet another life, a teenage girl named Winifred. Winifred's mother...
1897
Danse Fleur de Lotus (1897)
Danse Fleur de Lotus
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Serpentine dance....
1913
Matrimony's Speed Limit (1913)
Matrimony's Speed Limit
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A man must marry by noon or lose his inheritance. It's 11:50 a.m. and he can't find his fiancée....
1900
Turn-of-the-Century Surgery (1900)
Turn-of-the-Century Surgery
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George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin de Siecle (1900) is more widely available. And it’s not one to watch the night before an operation. In this clinic, a si...
1898
Surprise Attack on a House at Daybreak (1898)
Surprise Attack on a House at Daybreak
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Soldiers ambush a house....
1906
Madame's Cravings (1906)
Madame's Cravings
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A pregnant woman steals things from others on account of her cravings....
1916
The Ocean Waif (1916)
The Ocean Waif
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An abused young woman finds safety and love in the arms of a famous novelist....
1907
The Irresistible Piano (1907)
The Irresistible Piano
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A piano entices anyone who comes near....
1912
Making an American Citizen (1912)
Making an American Citizen
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A recent immigrant learns several hard lessons about how husbands in America are expected to behave....
1900
The Landlady (1900)
The Landlady
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A landlady is taunted by neighborhood kids....
1906
A Sticky Woman (1906)
A Sticky Woman
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A lady uses her maid to lick her stamps, when an overtly excited man notices the maid, forcibly kisses her, and they wind up stuck to each other....
1913
A House Divided (1913)
A House Divided
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A married couple, suspecting one another of infidelity, decide to "live separately together."...
1912
A Fool and His Money (1912)
A Fool and His Money
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Sam the white-washer pines for the affluent Lindy, but she has dumped him in favor of another. Sam finds a large sum of money, and goes to New York to enjoy a shopping spree, buying new clothes, jewelry and a car with a driver. Back home, Lindy flips...
1900
At the Floral Ball (1900)
At the Floral Ball
5.11900HD
A turn-of-the-last-century hand-tinted short, which features two women, Miss Lally and Miss Julyett, dancing at a ball. By the legendary French filmmaker Alice Guy....