Movies: Alice Guy-Blaché

Early short film by Emile Cohl...

Melodrama with the trappings of a military firm...

A silent film, likely about someone leaving a bath...

Scene of the last supper....

A hypnotist tricks his patients....

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

A piano entices anyone who comes near....

An extremely clumsy man tries to clean a woman's house with disastrous results....

An early Kinora demonstration film....

A bunch of people run an obstacle course all around town....

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

An impecunious chap is unable to pay his rent, whereupon he is ejected, but all his furniture is retained and he is allowed to remove only his rolling bed. Pulling this a few blocks, he is exhausted and lies down on the bed to rest. He is soon the ce...

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

A group of kids play in a stream....

Starring 'Les Omers' as a bunch of bricklayers causing trouble for the local cops....

Unverified phonoscene (chronograph #7 in Gaumont catalogue?) showing a performance of the cake walk....

A man dancing at a party finds one of his socks has fallen down. Retreating where no one can see him, he removes the offending item. the consequences are not long in coming in this very short -- two minutes -- comedy from Alice Guy....

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 to enjoy a shopping spree, buying new clothes, jewelry and a car with a driver. Back home, Lindy flips...

Behind-the-scenes footage showing Alice Guy directing an early sound film....

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