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Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché (née Guy; French pronunciation: [alis gi blɑʃe] ; 1 July 1873 – 24 March 1968) was a French pioneer film director. [2] She was one of the first filmmakers to make a narrative fiction film, [3] as well as the first woman to direct a film. From 1896 to 1906, she was probably the only female filmmaker in the ...
Alice Guy reported that the backdrop for her 1896 original La Fée aux Choux was painted by a ladies’ fan-painter. Pamela Green’s research for Be Natural, The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché, turned up a hand-painted ladies’ fan that was given to Alice Guy as a gift. It was signed by René Sérand (Yvonne Mugnier-Sérand’s older brother).
A Fool and His Money is an American silent comedy film from 1912. It is either the first film [1] or one of the earliest films [2] [3] with an African-American cast. It was directed by Alice Guy-Blaché, who is widely considered the first female film director.
EXCLUSIVE: The filmmakers behind acclaimed Cannes 2018 documentary Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché are re-teaming on a narrative biopic about their subject, the little-known but ...
Guy "skillfully managed to incorporate scores of extras to give added depth to her work, the same way that (...) D.W. Griffith did a decade later in Birth of a Nation and Intolerance." For her, the film highlights Guy's "role in the development of a hybrid cinema that questions notions of 'realism' and 'artifice' in gendered performativity ...
Herbert and Alice Guy-Blaché. Solax Studios was an American motion-picture studio founded in 1910 by executives from the Gaumont Film Company of France. Alice Guy-Blaché, her husband Herbert, and a third partner, George A. Magie, established the Solax Company.
The gruesome quality of the film proved to be a challenge for not only Guy-Blachè, but the entire cast and crew. There was a large number of rats used throughout filming and they proved to be an ongoing burden throughout the shoot. In Guy Blachè's memoir she recalls Darwin Karr's difficulty with working with the rats.
Falling Leaves is a 1912 American silent short film by Alice Guy-Blaché, produced at Solax Studios.Starring Solax stock actors, the story concerns a child's earnest effort to keep her dying sister alive by naive means.