Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first...

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...

It's early autumn and Dr. Headley eagerly demonstrates what seems to be a miraculous cure for tuberculosis. Not far from where he is working, the...

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

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

A turn-of-the-last-century hand-tinted short, which features two women, Miss Lally and Miss Julyett, dancing at a ball. By the legendary French...

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

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...

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

A woman shows off her trained dogs.

A dog runs away with a length of sausage. Chaos erupts as the butcher chasing the dog collides with bystanders who angrily follow.

A compellation of many silent films from all over the world, given music and sound design.

The fairy at a cabbage patch hovers over the babies. This is a remake of Guy's 1896 film on the same subject, this time shot in 35 mm.

A pregnant woman steals things from others on account of her cravings.

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

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

A four-year-old saves the day.

George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin...

The stations of Christ's life are segmented into a series of performative tableaux.