Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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.

An alcoholic is inadvertently sewn into a mattress.

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

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

Mme. Bob Walter performs the serpentine dance.

A piano entices anyone who comes near.

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.

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

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

A boy spreads glue all over town.

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...