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...

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

A day prior to embarking on a European trip with his cousin Artie. Greg, a recent college graduate receives a once in a lifetime opportunity granted...

A short film about a dirigible.

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 was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

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.

A hypnotist tricks his patients.

A dancer personifying Winter, dances in the snow.

A piano entices anyone who comes near.

The Professor will not allow his daughter to marry a non-musician, but Billy, her would-be suitor, cannot play a single note. When he is about to...

In this story the hero is haunted by a beautiful young woman who tries to stab him to death with a knife. This fantasy recurs on each of his...

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

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...

Peggy Wilson has recently become an orphan and a ward of the Waston family. She’s also inherited the late Robert Wilson’s vast fortune,...

The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more than 300 films over 10 years. Frances...

A woman shows off her trained dogs.