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...

During the Paris Commune, a boy runs across trouble at the barricade.

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

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

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

Sam the white-washer pines for the affluent Lindy, but she has dumped him in favor of another. Sam finds a large sum of money, and goes to New York...

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.

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

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 boy is fishing in a stream when some others see an opportunity for mischief.

A boy spreads glue all over town.

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

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...

Serpentine dance.

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

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

A dancer personifying Winter, dances in the snow.

A landlady is taunted by neighborhood kids.