Movies: Alice Guy-Blaché

Ragna "Rags" Jansen has found local success and acclaim in her small town as an actress, but dreams of stardom on Broadway....

A re-telling of the classic tale of Faust in all of two minutes by French filmmaker Alice Guy....

After the success of his painting "The Empress," artist DeBaudry (William Morse) takes his model, Nedra (Doris Kenyon), to a roadhouse and, unbeknownst to her, registers them as Mr. and Mrs. The roadhouse proprietor, who is also a part-time blackmail...

Columbine resists Pierrette's courting in favour of Harlequin in this hand-coloured short by Alice Guy....

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

Armand Dranem performs The True Jiu-Jitsu ("Le Vrai Jiu-Jitsu", by P. Briollet & G. Fabri / C. D'Orviet) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early form of music video was created using a chronophone recording of Dranem, who was then filmed "lip sin...

A runaway barrel wreaks havoc all over the city....

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....

Dick, a young boy hears wondrous tales of London, where the streets are paced with gold. At night he dreams of the capital. The next day he leaves his country home to see his fortune in London. He fails to find work at first and is almost starving wh...

Georges Hatot and Gaston Bretaeau with Henri Vallouy, a Gaumont employee, acting as cinematographer. Breteau himself seems to have taken the main role in most of the films and here plays the woman in drag who is terrorized by the X-ray camera at a cu...

A spoof of Sherlock Holmes. Directed by Alice Guy-Blache for Solax Film Company....

A white girl, living with her father at the barracks near an Indian reservation, is very kind to a half-breed Indian. He falls in love with her but she does not encourage him. However, she one day is about to accept a trinket from him, when one of th...

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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...

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

Short film by Alice Guy about a Western love triangle....

An early Kinora demonstration film....

Madame Ondine performs a serpentine dance surrounded by big cats....

An abused young woman finds safety and love in the arms of a famous novelist....

Young Martha Redmond, a poor girl from a small town, leaves to find a singing career in New York City. She doesn't find success as a singer, but finds a job as a model for a prominent artist, and soon becomes his mistress. When her lover throws her o...