Movies: Alice Guy-Blaché

A father shoots his son dead because, lured by the offer of a watch, he revealed to the police where his father had hidden smugglers who had come to ask for his hospitality....

An early sound-synchronized short of a rooster crowing....

A shot of a busy street in Paris is shown in reverse....

Who, apart from moviegoers, knows Alice Guy (1873-1968) today? However, she was the first woman behind the camera and the first female director and producer of fiction films in history....

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 of it online are actually the 1900 remake....

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

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

Recording of the dance Mesdemoiselles Lally and Juliette from the Olympia....

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A rich man rewards a tramp for defending him from muggers with a large sum of money in the form of a single bank note. Nobody can cash the big bill the tramp is carrying and hilarity ensues....

"Les Acrobats" is the second short film (out of 5) in the series "Les Malabares", which were filmed during the exhibition of the Malabari, an Indian tribe from the Malabar region, in the Jardin d'Acclimatation from August 15 to October 5, 1902. In t...

At a large factory, the workers decide to strike. Although the leader of the workers believes his boss is treating them unfairly, the strike movement spirals out of control....

A suffragette gets her husband drunk, leading to an escalating parade of mishaps as more people get drunk on their "lime juice."...

When Kitty's family adopts a homeless dog they couldn't guess how much it would be of help in her fathers detective work....

A man mistakes a woman's blown kisses as being directed at him. When he comes over to call on her, she attempts to shoo him away, but must hide him when her husband comes home unexpectedly....

Norma, a dancer, receives many presents from admirers. Among them she finds a peculiar looking box, out of which spring several poisonous snakes. Nelson, a detective, is called upon to solve the mystery....

A pretty maid is out walking and encounters a series of military men, starting with a private, who lose her to higher ranks....

A woman performs the tango....