Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

Impressionism and expression of a view, Mavy uses fragments of the ocean landscapes of Alice Guy's studies through fluctuations of bright nuances and...

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

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

The fairy at a cabbage patch hovers over the babies. This is a remake of Guy's 1896 film on the same subject, this time shot in 35 mm.

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

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

A man must marry by noon or lose his inheritance. It's 11:50 a.m. and he can't find his fiancée.

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

A wonderful midwife helps a rich couple pick out a baby from her cabbage patch.

A re-telling of the classic tale of Faust in all of two minutes by French filmmaker Alice Guy.

A woman shows off her trained dogs.

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

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 client has trouble listening to the photographer's instructions.

A hypnotist tricks his patients.

A gentleman visits a hair consultant for his baldness problems. The latter recommends a new lotion. The gentleman lets himself be convinced and a...

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

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