Movies: Alice Guy-Blaché

Félix Mayol performs The Trottins Polka (La Polka des Trottins, by A. Trebitsch and H. Christine) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early form of music video was created using a chronophone recording of Mayol, who was then filmed "lip singing". G...

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

Held at MoMA...

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

An heiress is saved from the predations of a gang of gentleman crooks by a female detective and her father....

Program of 13 short films by Alice Guy made between 1898 and 1907. She is the first fiction filmmaker in the history of cinema. It was she who suggested to Léon Gaumont that he abandon simple animated views to shoot small scripted stories. Authorizat...

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Remake of the 1895 by the Lumière Brothers. A similar scene is filmed from a different angle, and a young man has replaced the prankster child....

Early short film by Emile Cohl...

A young couple is trying to get together while the girl's father is trying to break them up....

Butterfly dance....

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