Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

A short film about a dirigible.

Cute one-trick doggie show. The backdrop is beautifully detailed, yet the illusion of depth is humorously broken by the balloon bouncing off the set.

Held at MoMA

Program of 13 short films by Alice Guy made between 1898 and 1907. She is the first fiction filmmaker in the history of cinema. It was she who...

Alice Guy film.

A Parisian doctor, infatuated with the wife of his benefactor, drugs and kidnaps her, and tries to convince the husband that she is dead. This film...

A hapless man tries to get undressed only to find himself magically layered in even more clothes.

A silent film, likely about someone leaving a bath

Alice Guy experiment with visuals and sound by Félix Mayol.

The boy Is a bachelor of thirty who by diligence and perseverance is on the road to success. The boy's success gains him introduction into...

Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe.

"Danse fantaisiste" (Gaumont #589) is part of the "Miss Lina Esbrard. Danseuse cosmopolite et serpentine" series of 4 films, and should not be...

The husband of Mrs, Cranston is in tight quarters. He is caught both "short" in funds and in stock. In order that he may be able to cover up his...

Alice Guy directed a now lost phonoscene (film that relied on a chronophone sound recording that the actors in the film lip-synced with) version of...

Actuality film of miners entering a mine.

A pretty maid is out walking and encounters a series of military men, starting with a private, who lose her to higher ranks.

An early sound-synchronized short of a rooster crowing.