Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first...

During the Paris Commune, a boy runs across trouble at the barricade.

It's a society in which gender roles are switched. Will men stand to be unequal?

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...

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...

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...

A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other.

Soldiers ambush a house.

"This funny individual will make you laugh until your sides ache. He is funny in all his actions, yet when he puts on his shoes you can imagine the...

A pregnant woman steals things from others on account of her cravings.

Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe.

When Algie Allmore asks to marry Clarice, the young woman's father gives him one year to prove that he's a man.

Armand Dranem performs The True Jiu-Jitsu ("Le Vrai Jiu-Jitsu", by P. Briollet & G. Fabri / C. D'Orviet) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early...

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...

A blind man begging for change tries to outsmart a cop.

The stations of Christ's life are segmented into a series of performative tableaux.

A boy spreads glue all over town.

Madame Ondine performs a serpentine dance surrounded by big cats.

A dog runs away with a length of sausage. Chaos erupts as the butcher chasing the dog collides with bystanders who angrily follow.

Columbine resists Pierrette's courting in favour of Harlequin in this hand-coloured short by Alice Guy.