Movies: Alice Guy-Blaché

  • 1905
    Esmeralda

    Esmeralda (1905)

    Esmeralda

    31905HD

    It was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame....

    Esmeralda
  • 1905
    Saharet Performs the Bolero

    Saharet Performs the Bolero (1905)

    Saharet Performs the Bolero

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    Saharet performs the bolero for Alice Guy....

    Saharet Performs the Bolero
  • 1903
    Faust and Mephistopheles

    Faust and Mephistopheles (1903)

    Faust and Mephistopheles

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    A re-telling of the classic tale of Faust in all of two minutes by French filmmaker Alice Guy....

    Faust and Mephistopheles
  • 1900
    Turn-of-the-Century Surgery

    Turn-of-the-Century Surgery (1900)

    Turn-of-the-Century Surgery

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    George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin de Siecle (1900) is more widely available. And it’s not one to watch the night before an operation. In this clinic, a si...

    Turn-of-the-Century Surgery
  • 1902
    Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs

    Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs (1902)

    Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs

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    A woman shows off her trained dogs....

    Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs
  • 1912
    Algie, the Miner

    Algie, the Miner (1912)

    Algie, the Miner

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

    Algie, the Miner
  • 1902
    Midwife to the Upper Class

    Midwife to the Upper Class (1902)

    Midwife to the Upper Class

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

    Midwife to the Upper Class
  • 1917
    House of Cards

    House of Cards (1917)

    House of Cards

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    The Mannings are a professional couple--she is a doctor, he is a lawyer--who are so absorbed in their careers that they have little time for their young daughter Louise, who is left to be raised by their servants. They are shaken out of their single-...

    House of Cards
  • 1906
    Madame's Cravings

    Madame's Cravings (1906)

    Madame's Cravings

    5.71906HD

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

    Madame's Cravings
  • 1911
    When Marian was Married

    When Marian was Married (1911)

    When Marian was Married

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    Silent, b&w, 35 mm....

    When Marian was Married
  • 1911
    His Mother's Hymn

    His Mother's Hymn (1911)

    His Mother's Hymn

    01911HD

    Paul Wellard is leaving home for the city. He goes to say good-bye to his mother and finds her at the organ singing her favorite hymn. For a while he prospers very well in the city, but finally gets in bad company, gambles, steals and loses his posit...

    His Mother's Hymn
  • 1913
    Officer Henderson

    Officer Henderson (1913)

    Officer Henderson

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    Two policemen are required to dress as women to catch pickpockets....

    Officer Henderson
  • 1912
    The Girl in the Arm-Chair

    The Girl in the Arm-Chair (1912)

    The Girl in the Arm-Chair

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    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, which puts her very much in Mr. Waston’s favor. He would like his son, Frank, to marry Peggy, but Peggy “is not hi...

    The Girl in the Arm-Chair
  • 1907
    The Fur Hat

    The Fur Hat (1907)

    The Fur Hat

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    A grenadier had come to see his lover, a servant in the homes of wealthy bourgeois people. Hearing a noise, he is afraid of the masters and allows himself to be locked in a cupboard so as not to be seen. This is a hiding place that will spark many ad...

    The Fur Hat
  • 1898
    La cène

    La cène (1898)

    La cène

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    Scene of the last supper....

    La cène
  • 1904
    Electrocution

    Electrocution (1904)

    Electrocution

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    Electrocution
  • 1912
    Treasures on the Wing

    Treasures on the Wing (1912)

    Treasures on the Wing

    01912HD

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    Treasures on the Wing
  • 1913
    The Thief

    The Thief (1913)

    The Thief

    01913HD

    Three wartime friends, two wealthy, and one poor, reunite at an upscale dinner party. Things take a turn when the poor man is accused of stealing something....

    The Thief
  • 1910
    Bonsoir

    Bonsoir (1910)

    Bonsoir

    51910HD

    Early short film by Emile Cohl...

    Bonsoir
  • 1895
    Animated Portrait Shot by L and A Lumière

    Animated Portrait Shot by L and A Lumière (1895)

    Animated Portrait Shot by L and A Lumière

    01895HD

    An early Kinora demonstration film....

    Animated Portrait Shot by L and A Lumière