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...

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...

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

The fairy at a cabbage patch hovers over the babies. This is a remake of Guy's 1896 film on the same subject, this time shot in 35 mm.

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

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.

"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...

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

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

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

A hypnotist tricks his patients.

A group of kids play in a stream.

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.

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

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...

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,...

A pregnant woman steals things from others on account of her cravings.

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...