Movies: Alice Guy-Blaché

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 of it online are actually the 1900 remake....

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 disease seems preparing to soon claim yet another life, a teenage girl named Winifred. Winifred's mother...

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

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

The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and ...

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...

A recent immigrant learns several hard lessons about how husbands in America are expected to behave....

A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other....

A boy spreads glue all over town....

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 filmmaker Alice Guy....

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

When Algie Allmore asks to marry Clarice, the young woman's father gives him one year to prove that he's a man....

A lady uses her maid to lick her stamps, when an overtly excited man notices the maid, forcibly kisses her, and they wind up stuck to each other....

A shot of a busy street in Paris is shown in reverse....

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

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

A married couple, suspecting one another of infidelity, decide to "live separately together."...

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

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....

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