Movies: Alice Guy-Blaché

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A noted philanthropist is captured by a rowdy gang, but one of the children involved resists the gang's insistence that he turn to a life of crime....

Mme. Bob Walter performs the serpentine dance....

Daisy Jones had been married just a year when her husband failed to kiss her one morning, and she decided that he did not love her any more....

Serpentine dance....

Polin performs a song....

A government agent who buys horses runs into trouble in Mexico....

A bullfighter dances with a woman....

A magician transforms a tiny dinner table into a full meal for a homeless man....

Noble born Mignon is stolen by a band of gypsies as a child. Her mother dies from grief and her father, unhinged by the double blow, gives up his ancestral home for the roaming life of a minstrel wandering from place to place in search of his child. ...

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

Alice Guy films the sea....

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 birthdays, becoming more and more real as the years go on. He leaves home to secure a place as groom, but arr...

"Mireille" was filmed at the end of May, 1906, by a small team including Alice Guy, Herbert Blaché, Louis Feuillade and Yvonne Mugnier-Serand at the estate of the Marquis Folco de Baroncelli-Javon in Camargue, during their visit to Nîmes to attend th...

Bank official Hanlin Davis is ruined in the stock market. Desperate, he fails to rob the bank but kills someone in the attempt. His wife Thora goes to D.A. Hastings to plead for a light sentence which the corrupt Hastings agrees to only if Thora give...

The parish priest looks to create a Nativity scene for his church, but his congregation is too poor to afford the statuary dealer's price for a statue of baby Jesus. The miracle, then, is that the faithful's prayers are answered by the appearance of ...

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air....

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Impressionism and expression of a view, Mavy uses fragments of the ocean landscapes of Alice Guy's studies through fluctuations of bright nuances and an imitation of these tormented waves in the eyes of a modern camera...

Little May, the rose of the ranch, is kidnapped....