Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

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...

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...

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

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

A boy spreads glue all over town.

A piano entices anyone who comes near.

A hypnotist tricks his patients.

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

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...

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

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

"Danse excentrique" (Gaumont #587) is part of the "Miss Lina Esbrard. Danseuse cosmopolite et serpentine" series of 4 films, and should not be...

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

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

Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe.

Mme. Bob Walter performs the serpentine dance.

Polin performs a song.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.