Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

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

Alice Guy-Blaché's third film for Gaumont.

A woman wearing dragonfly wings performs a romantic dreamlike dance.

A client has trouble listening to the photographer's instructions.

A rich man rewards a tramp for defending him from muggers with a large sum of money in the form of a single bank note. Nobody can cash the big bill...

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...

The stations of Christ's life are segmented into a series of performative tableaux.

Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe.

"This funny individual will make you laugh until your sides ache. He is funny in all his actions, yet when he puts on his shoes you can imagine the...

Dick, a young boy hears wondrous tales of London, where the streets are paced with gold. At night he dreams of the capital. The next day he leaves...

A four-year-old saves the day.

Félix Mayol performs The Trottins Polka (La Polka des Trottins, by A. Trebitsch and H. Christine) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early...

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

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

An early sound-synchronized short of a rooster crowing.

Old Joel Smith is charged with murder in the first degree. At the trial he pleads in opposition to his own lawyers. He explains that he is now too...

Polin performs a song.

Butterfly dance.

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