Movies: Alice Guy-Blaché

  • 1898
    The Turn-of-the-Century Blind Man

    The Turn-of-the-Century Blind Man (1898)

    The Turn-of-the-Century Blind Man

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

    The Turn-of-the-Century Blind Man
  • 1907
    The Fur Hat

    The Fur Hat (1907)

    The Fur Hat

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    A grenadier had come to see his lover, a servant in the homes of wealthy bourgeois people. Hearing a noise, he is afraid of the masters and allows himself to be locked in a cupboard so as not to be seen. This is a hiding place that will spark many ad...

    The Fur Hat
  • 1914
    The Dream Woman

    The Dream Woman (1914)

    The Dream Woman

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    In this story the hero is haunted by a beautiful young woman who tries to stab him to death with a knife. This fantasy recurs on each of his birthdays, becoming more and more real as the years go on. He leaves home to secure a place as groom, but arr...

    The Dream Woman
  • 1911
    Greater Love Hath No Man

    Greater Love Hath No Man (1911)

    Greater Love Hath No Man

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    Short film by Alice Guy about a Western love triangle....

    Greater Love Hath No Man
  • 1912
    The Love of the Flag

    The Love of the Flag (1912)

    The Love of the Flag

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    The Love of the Flag
  • 1900
    At the Floral Ball

    At the Floral Ball (1900)

    At the Floral Ball

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    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....

    At the Floral Ball
  • 1912
    Child of the Tenements

    Child of the Tenements (1912)

    Child of the Tenements

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    Child of the Tenements
  • 1913
    A House Divided

    A House Divided (1913)

    A House Divided

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

    A House Divided
  • 1917
    House of Cards

    House of Cards (1917)

    House of Cards

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    The Mannings are a professional couple--she is a doctor, he is a lawyer--who are so absorbed in their careers that they have little time for their young daughter Louise, who is left to be raised by their servants. They are shaken out of their single-...

    House of Cards
  • 1912
    The Equine Spy

    The Equine Spy (1912)

    The Equine Spy

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    The Equine Spy
  • 1913
    Cousins of Sherlocko

    Cousins of Sherlocko (1913)

    Cousins of Sherlocko

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    Two mediocre detectives try and catch a notorious pickpocket. Meanwhile, an innocent man is mistaken for the pickpocket and is forced to put on a disguise to evade capture....

    Cousins of Sherlocko
  • 1912
    Two Little Rangers

    Two Little Rangers (1912)

    Two Little Rangers

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    "Wild Bill" Gray is a renegade and a wife-beater. He is about to start on some expedition of crime and his wife implores him to stay at home. She receives a beating for her trouble. Jim, a cowboy, rides past the shack, hears Mrs. Gray's screams and i...

    Two Little Rangers
  • 1917
    The Adventurer

    The Adventurer (1917)

    The Adventurer

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    A young girl is trying to live an honest life in a crooked city. Caught up with a crook that might be the son of a millionaire and other crooked people, she must attempt to reform things, or at least one person....

    The Adventurer
  • 1905
    Félix Mayol Performs

    Félix Mayol Performs "The Trottins' Polka" (1905)

    Félix Mayol Performs "The Trottins' Polka"

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    Félix Mayol performs The Trottins Polka (La Polka des Trottins, by A. Trebitsch and H. Christine) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early form of music video was created using a chronophone recording of Mayol, who was then filmed "lip singing". G...

    Félix Mayol Performs
  • 1914
    The Tigress

    The Tigress (1914)

    The Tigress

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    Heroine Stella is not a "tigress" at all, but instead a loving wife and mother. All this changes when the despotic and rapacious Governor of Euturia, whose sexual overtures have been spurned by Stella, orders that her husband be executed and her chil...

    The Tigress
  • 1898
    L'utilité des rayons x

    L'utilité des rayons x (1898)

    L'utilité des rayons x

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    Georges Hatot and Gaston Bretaeau with Henri Vallouy, a Gaumont employee, acting as cinematographer. Breteau himself seems to have taken the main role in most of the films and here plays the woman in drag who is terrorized by the X-ray camera at a cu...

    L'utilité des rayons x
  • 1912
    The Reformation of Mary

    The Reformation of Mary (1912)

    The Reformation of Mary

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    The Reformation of Mary
  • 1912
    A Terrible Lesson

    A Terrible Lesson (1912)

    A Terrible Lesson

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    The story involves a man who goes to a gambling den regardless of the protestations of his wife. He is extremely lucky and his luck attracts attention. Strangers become friendly with him and he being a "good feller," "sets up" the crowd. After the ni...

    A Terrible Lesson
  • 1900
    Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder

    Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder (1900)

    Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder

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

    Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder
  • 1900
    Turn-of-the-Century Surgery

    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...

    Turn-of-the-Century Surgery