Movies: Alice Guy-Blaché

A father who is determined his daughter should marry a count leading the boyfriend to dress up as the count to thwart his plans....

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...

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

A beautiful young girl spontaneously grows flowers outside her window, with the help of a magic watering can....

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

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Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe....

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

An early sound-synchronized short of a rooster crowing....

Serpentine dance....

Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city....

"Danse excentrique" (Gaumont #587) is part of the "Miss Lina Esbrard. Danseuse cosmopolite et serpentine" series of 4 films, and should not be confused with "Danse serpentine" (Gaumont #588, the only extant film in the series), "Danse fantaisiste" (G...

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...

Bob Burton is a misogynist who spends time with other men who share his views, but Bob's friends play a role when he shows that he's not completely disgusted by his friend Harry's sister....

Young Martha Redmond, a poor girl from a small town, leaves to find a singing career in New York City. She doesn't find success as a singer, but finds a job as a model for a prominent artist, and soon becomes his mistress. When her lover throws her o...

Paul Wellard is leaving home for the city. He goes to say good-bye to his mother and finds her at the organ singing her favorite hymn. For a while he prospers very well in the city, but finally gets in bad company, gambles, steals and loses his posit...

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

A poor boy is mistreated by his stepmother when his father isn't present....

Columbine resists Pierrette's courting in favour of Harlequin in this hand-coloured short by Alice Guy....

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