Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

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

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

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 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 pretty maid is out walking and encounters a series of military men, starting with a private, who lose her to higher ranks.

The Professor will not allow his daughter to marry a non-musician, but Billy, her would-be suitor, cannot play a single note. When he is about to...

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...

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

Peggy Wilson has recently become an orphan and a ward of the Waston family. She’s also inherited the late Robert Wilson’s vast fortune,...

The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more than 300 films over 10 years. Frances...

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

An abused young woman finds safety and love in the arms of a famous novelist.

A piano entices anyone who comes near.

A shot of a busy street in Paris is shown in reverse.

A group of kids play in a stream.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

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

A boy spreads glue all over town.

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