Movies: Alice Guy-Blaché

1902
Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs (1902)
Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs
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A woman shows off her trained dogs....
1902
La Gigue (1902)
La Gigue
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"La Gigue" (Gaumont #590) is part of the "Miss Lina Esbrard. Danseuse cosmopolite et serpentine" series of 4 films, and should not be confused with "Danse excentrique" (Gaumont #587), "Danse serpentine" (Gaumont #588, the only extant film in the seri...
1911
His Mother's Hymn (1911)
His Mother's Hymn
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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...
1912
The High Cost of Living (1912)
The High Cost of Living
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Old Joel Smith is charged with murder in the first degree. At the trial he pleads in opposition to his own lawyers. He explains that he is now too old to be of any assistance to his widowed daughter and his grand-children who are dependent on him for...
1905
Cake Walk, Performed by Nouveau Cirque (1905)
Cake Walk, Performed by Nouveau Cirque
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Nouveau Cirque performs the cake-walk....
1903
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....
1900
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...
1913
Officer Henderson (1913)
Officer Henderson
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Two policemen are required to dress as women to catch pickpockets....
1905
Faust (1905)
Faust
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Alice Guy directed a now lost phonoscene (film that relied on a chronophone sound recording that the actors in the film lip-synced with) version of Faust in 22 scenes(or short films) totaling 1245 meter of film. What remains are mostly postcards cont...
1904
The Crime on Temple Street (1904)
The Crime on Temple Street
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Alice Guy film....
1905
Saharet Performs the Bolero (1905)
Saharet Performs the Bolero
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Saharet performs the bolero for Alice Guy....
1912
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...
1898
La cène (1898)
La cène
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Scene of the last supper....
1913
The Pit and the Pendulum (1913)
The Pit and the Pendulum
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Alice Guy's version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. This film is partially lost....
1907
The Glue (1907)
The Glue
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A boy spreads glue all over town....
1903
How Monsieur Takes His Bath (1903)
How Monsieur Takes His Bath
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A hapless man tries to get undressed only to find himself magically layered in even more clothes....
1911
When Marian was Married (1911)
When Marian was Married
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Silent, b&w, 35 mm....
1906
The Consequences of Feminism (1906)
The Consequences of Feminism
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It's a society in which gender roles are switched. Will men stand to be unequal?...
1898
At the Hypnotist's (1898)
At the Hypnotist's
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A hypnotist tricks his patients....
1906
Madame's Cravings (1906)
Madame's Cravings
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A pregnant woman steals things from others on account of her cravings....