Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

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

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

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

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

A dancer personifying Winter, dances in the snow.

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

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.

Mme. Bob Walter performs the serpentine dance.

George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin...

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

"Danse excentrique" (Gaumont #587) is part of the "Miss Lina Esbrard. Danseuse cosmopolite et serpentine" series of 4 films, and should not be...

A boy spreads glue all over town.

A hypnotist tricks his patients.

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 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 recent immigrant learns several hard lessons about how husbands in America are expected to behave.

A group of kids play in a stream.

When Algie Allmore asks to marry Clarice, the young woman's father gives him one year to prove that he's a man.