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...

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

Cute one-trick doggie show. The backdrop is beautifully detailed, yet the illusion of depth is humorously broken by the balloon bouncing off the set.

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...

An extremely clumsy man tries to clean a woman's house with disastrous results.

The Professor will not allow his daughter to marry a non-musician, but Billy, her would-be suitor, cannot play a single note. When he is about to...

A married couple, suspecting one another of infidelity, decide to "live separately together."

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

"Danse excentrique" (Gaumont #587) is part of the "Miss Lina Esbrard. Danseuse cosmopolite et serpentine" series of 4 films, and should not be...

A boy spreads glue all over town.

Behind-the-scenes footage showing Alice Guy directing an early sound film.

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

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...

A piano entices anyone who comes near.

Félix Mayol performs The Trottins Polka (La Polka des Trottins, by A. Trebitsch and H. Christine) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early...

A woman shows off her trained dogs.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

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...

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

A spoof of Sherlock Holmes. Directed by Alice Guy-Blache for Solax Film Company.