Movies: Alice Guy-Blaché

A biodoc about the first female filmmaker and her relative disappearance from the history of cinema....

The kids of a game-keeper get into a chase with rifles....

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Actuality film of miners entering a mine....

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

Alice Guy's version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. This film is partially lost....

A lady uses her maid to lick her stamps, when an overtly excited man notices the maid, forcibly kisses her, and they wind up stuck to each other....

Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe....

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air....

Noble born Mignon is stolen by a band of gypsies as a child. Her mother dies from grief and her father, unhinged by the double blow, gives up his ancestral home for the roaming life of a minstrel wandering from place to place in search of his child. ...

Two policemen are required to dress as women to catch pickpockets....

A landlady is taunted by neighborhood kids....

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

A gentleman visits a hair consultant for his baldness problems. The latter recommends a new lotion. The gentleman lets himself be convinced and a bellboy is immediately dispatched for the delivery which arrives at the concierge's lodge. The concierge...

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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....

An heiress is saved from the predations of a gang of gentleman crooks by a female detective and her father....

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

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