Movies: Alice Guy-Blaché

A silent film, likely about someone leaving a bath...

The head of the family, in search of money, dons the clothes left by the village priest. He commits a terrible deed, and later, the priest learns of it; That it was committed in his frock. The priest looks to the Lord for guidance....

Silent, b&w, 35 mm....

Alice Guy-Blaché's third film for Gaumont....

Alice Guy-Blaché's second film for Gaumont....

Who, apart from moviegoers, knows Alice Guy (1873-1968) today? However, she was the first woman behind the camera and the first female director and producer of fiction films in history....

Early short film by Emile Cohl...

A white girl, living with her father at the barracks near an Indian reservation, is very kind to a half-breed Indian. He falls in love with her but she does not encourage him. However, she one day is about to accept a trinket from him, when one of th...

Mrs. Hurley is a wealthy old lady who is rather proud of her antecedents. Her son, a young, clean-cut, college-bred man, like other gilded youths, makes the acquaintance of an actress and the inevitable follows. He marries her, much against the com...

"Les Acrobats" is the second short film (out of 5) in the series "Les Malabares", which were filmed during the exhibition of the Malabari, an Indian tribe from the Malabar region, in the Jardin d'Acclimatation from August 15 to October 5, 1902. In t...

A short film about a dirigible....

Felix Mayol performs Théodore Botrel's 'Lilas-blanc'....

A woman performs the tango....

A magician transforms a tiny dinner table into a full meal for a homeless man....

A hapless man tries to get undressed only to find himself magically layered in even more clothes....

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Nouveau Cirque performs the cake-walk....