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Alice  Guy-Blaché
[1873-1968]

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The only woman filmmaker to this day who owned her own movie studio.

"Every bit as important as D.W. Griffith or Cecil B. DeMille." — film historian Anthony Slide

"I'd be over the moon with the Frenchman Georges Méliès. I was thrilled by the movies of D.W. Griffith
and the early French director Alice Guy." — Alfred Hitchcock [1899-1980]

"There is nothing connected with the staging of a motion picture that a woman cannot do as easily as a man."
— Alice Guy-Blaché

official Alice Guy Blaché-Bolton website (in French}
Alice Guy-Blaché entry at Wikipedia
Alice Guy-Blaché credits [1896-1920] at Internet Movie Database
official chronology of Alice Guy-Blaché's life

Movies  of  Alice Guy-Blaché
Blaché supervised 1,000 films at Gaumont in France, directing maybe 400; she produced or directed several hundred films in the United States;
130 films survive, but only 3 of her 40 features. Of those 1,000-plus films, only 440+ are listed on IMDb (2019).

Alice Guy-Blaché credits [1896-1920] at Internet Movie Database
search for Alice Guy-Blaché on DVD at Amazon

"Gaumont: Le Cinema Premier, Volume 1 - Alice Guy • Louis Feuillade • Léonce Perret" [2008] Region 2 Gaumont DVD [4/2008] 7 disks - import/used - PAL format Region 2 Gaumont DVD box set [4/2008] 7 disks for €51,88 via Amazon France PAL format - via Amazon.FR DISKS 1 & 2 Alice Guy [1873-1968]: many silent shorts including "La Vie du Christ" [1906], hour-long docu-mentary "Portrait", probably TV episode {not found on IMDb}; DISKS 3 & 4: Louis Feuillade [1873-1925]: 11 silent shorts and many elements from the film series "La Vie Telle qu’Elle Est (Life As It Is)" [1909-12]; DISKS 5-7: Léonce Perret [1880-1935]: 11 silent shorts, tinted silent feature "L’Enfant de Paris" [1913]; and silent feature "Le Roman d’Un Mousse" aka "The Curse of Greed" [1914] — plus a 98-page booklet

	"Alice Guy 8 Films: La Premiere Femme Cinéaste de L'Histoire du Cinéma" on DVD [2008] Region 2 Doriane Films b&w DVD [9/2008] for $33.68 in PAL format Doriane Films All-Region b&w DVD [7/2013] import/used Region 2 Doriane Films b&w DVD [9/2008] for €15,00 PAL format - via Amazon.FR Doriane Films All-Region b&w DVD [7/2013] for €36,40 via Amazon.FR contains 8 short films by Alice Guy-Blaché: "La Glu (The Glue Pot)" [1907], "Greater Love Hath No Man" [1911], "Falling Leaves" [1912], "The Detective's Dog" [June 1912], "The Girl In The Armchair" [Dec 1912], "A House Divided" [May 1913], "Matrimony's Speed Limit" [June 1913], "The Pit and The Pendulum" [July 1913] — plus the 2013 DVDs include documentary "Looking For Alice" by Claudia Collao
	"Gaumont Treasures: 1897-1913" DVD Box Set [2009] Kino Video b&w DVD set [9/2009] 85+ films on 3 disks for $42.00 DISK 1 contains 70+ silent short films produced and-or directed in France from 1897 to 1907 by Alice Guy-Blaché [1873-1968], including the 33-minute religious epic "La Vie du Christ" [1906]; also performances by Félix Mayol with 'Phono-Cinema' synchronous sound DISK 2 is films of Louis Feuillade [1873-1925] and DISK 3 is films of Léonce Perret [1880-1935]
	"Illuminating Moments: The Films of Alice Guy Blaché" [LWAGB #2 6/2017] by Janelle Dietrick not a filmography per se: 725 synopses of Alice's films inside the premise that they illustrate her private life over time - "or, at the very least, the times in which she lived" Kindle Edition from BookBaby [8/2017] for $7.99 BookBaby 9x6 pb [6/2017] for $20.32
	"Les Pionnières du Cinéma: Alice Guy-Blaché" [Lobster Films Feb 2018] contains 9 silent short films: "Greater Love Hath No Man" [1911], "Falling Leaves" [1912], "L’Américanisé" [1912], "The Girl In The Armchair" [1912], "A Fool and His Money" [1912], "For Love of The Flag" [1912], "Algie The Miner" [1912], "Matrimony’s Speed Limit" [1913], "The Ocean Waif" [1916] Region 2 Lobster Films DVD [2/2019] for €9,99 PAL format - via Amazon France also available as Disk 1 of the "Les Pionnières du Cinéma" DVD box set [2018] films of Dorothy Arzner, Mary Ellen Bute, Dorothy Davenport (Mrs. Wallace Reid), Germaine Dulac, Alice Guy-Blaché, Marie-Louise Iribe, Mabel Normand, Olga Preobrazhenskaya, Lois Weber Lobster Films DVD box set [5/2018] 9 hours on 4 disks - import/used Region 2 Lobster Films DVD box set [5/2018] 4 disks for €34,73 PAL format - via Amazon France

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Movies  Made  at  Gaumont  in  France,  1896-1907

"La Fée aux Choux (The Cabbage Fairy)" [Alice's historic first film 1896]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTd7r0VkgnQ silent [0.57]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_xvf-ZEH7I with string music [0.59]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d7FXY6veHk with piano [0.54]

"La Fée Aux Choux: Alice Guy's Garden of Dreams" [LWAGB #4 7/2018] by Janelle Dietrick, Foreword by Alice-Guy Blaché Peeters Mdm. Alice said that this film was made in 1896 and thus backed her claim for many firsts in cinema history; but the only print known to exist is dated 1900, allowing male critics to deny such claims; this recent book examines the existing evidence in great detail . . . Kindle Edition from BookBaby [7/2018] for $7.99

"Chez le Magnétiseur" [1898]

"Chez le Photographe" [France 1900]
comedy short directed by Alice Guy; restored from element found at Svenska Filminstitutet • bare credits at IMDb
watch fragment [2/2016 upload; 0:59] online at YouTube

"Langue Collante (Sticky Tongue)" [1900]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuvKUiUiEjw [3:15]

"Sage-Femme de Première Classe (Midwife To The Upper Classes)" [1902]

second and quite different version of "La Fée aux Choux" Produced & directed by Alice Guy; starring Germaine Serand & Yvonne Serand bare credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia France watch full short with piano music [4/2013 upload; 4:15] online at YouTube watch full silent short [4/2012 upload; 3:59] online at YouTube watch full short with string music [2/2016 upload; 4:02] online at YouTube

"Five O'Clock Tea" [1905] sound film with Dranem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSZ1BmobQ8g [2:55]

"Faust" [1906]

"La Vie du Christ" silent religious epic [Gaumont France Jan 1906]
aka "The Birth, The Life, and The Death of Christ" [USA Jan 1907]

	33-minute silent religious epic directed by Alice Guy-Blaché; cinematography by Anatole Thiberville; production design, costume design & assistant director by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset available on the "Gaumont Treasures" DVD box set above • full credits at IMDb watch full silent movie [9/2012 upload; 32:54] online at YouTube watch full movie with piano [8/2013 upload; 33:59] online at YouTube
	"The Silents of Jesus In The Cinema (1897-1927)" [2016] Edited by David Shepherd examines silent films made by Alice Guy, Ferdinand Zecca, Sidney Olcott, D.W. Griffith, Carl Dreyer, and Cecil B. DeMille Kindle Edition from Routledge [3/2016] for $50.99 {sic} Routledge 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2016] for $100.86

"Les Résultats du Féminisme (The Consequences of Feminism)" [1906]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MO-LgdE7hE [6:56]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R8J2BcHHaY [6:44]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIPMbkHQO3w [6:56]

"L'Emeute sur la Barricade" [1906]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KmrfWErFZc [4:51]

"La Glu" silent short [1907] the mischievous adventures of a boy with a bucket of glue
http://www.archive.org/details/LaGlu1907

"Madame a des Envies" [1907]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vnLLi-lE2w [4:20]

"Une Héroïne de Quatre Ans (A Four-Year-Old Heroine)" [1907] /tt0764909/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BOBQa7HGOE

"Le Piano Irresitible" [1907]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGj5CnPJ3QA [5:05]

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Solax  Company  Productions, 1910-1914
Solax filmography dated September 2009
NOTE: the ★ indicates that the film is available on the 2018 "Pioneers" six-DVD set below

"A Child's Sacrifice" first Solax film [Oct 1910]

"The Pawnshop" [Dec 1910]

★ "Mixed Pets" [1911] 14.1 min.

★ "Greater Love Hath No Man" [1911] 16.25 min.

★ "Tramp Strategy" silent short [1911]
directed by Alice Guy Blaché; being preserved by NYWIF (2014)

"The Girl and The Broncho Buster" Western movie [Solax July 1911]
lost film starring The Cheyenne Riders

"Outwitted By Horse and Lariat" Western movie [Solax July 1911] probably directed by Alice

★ "The Little Rangers" [1912] 11.5 min.

★ "The High Cost of Living" [1912] 14.5 min.

★ "Canned Harmony" [1912]

"A Man's A Man" [Jan 1912]

"Parson Sue" comedy Western [Jan 1912]

★ "Algie, The Miner" [Feb 1912] produced & supervised by Alice Guy

★ "Falling Leaves" silent short [Solax March 1912]

Uncredited adaptation of an O. Henry story; a little girl hears that patients like her beloved older sister often die when the leaves fall from the trees, so she ties several leaves to the tree limb outside her sister's window . . . Directed by Alice Guy; starring Magda Foy (as The Solax Kid), Mace Greenleaf, Blanche Cornwall, Marian Swayne, Darwin Karr, Mary Foy Region 1 Blu-ray/DVD not available • full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch movie [7/2005 upload; 11:40] online at Internet Archive watch movie with piano score by Ben Model [6/2011 upload; 11:51] online at YouTube

"The Sewer" [April 1912]

"The Detective's Dog" [June 1912],

"The Love of The Flag" short [Solax/F.S.C. Sept 1912] /tt0339320/

"Making An American Citizen (L’Américanisé)" [Oct 1912]

★ "A Fool and His Money" [Solax/F.S.I. Oct 1912]

The first-known all-black-cast film; Sam finds some money and spends it on clothes and a car, then woos the expensive Lindy; at the engagement party, Sam plays cards with his former rival and another, who turns out to be a card shark: Sam loses everything, and Lindy runs away with the card shark; one-reel print archived at the National Center for Film & Video Preservation at the American Film Institute Produced & directed by Alice Guy-Blaché; starring James Russell VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • bare credits at IMDb Amazon Instant Video [undated] not available (2018) available with six other restored early silent one-reelers on the "Seven Silent Films: Lost For A Century" DVD American Media Intl. b&w silent DVD [8/2012] - SOLD OUT!

"New Love and The Old" [Nov 1912]

"The Girl In The Armchair" short [Dec 1912]

★ "The Burstrup Homes Murder Case" silent short [1913]
spoof of Sherlock Holmes
http://www.archive.org/details/TheBurstrupHomesMurderCase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYoo-81bF2A

"The Thief" [1913]

★ "Matrimony's Speed Limit" one-reel comedy [June 1913] /tt0210835/

"Beasts of The Jungle" [1913]

★ "A House Divided" one-reel comedy [1913] /tt0002983/

"Brennan of The Moor" [1913]

★ "The Coming of Sunbeam" [Jan 1913] /tt1234627/ print at Library of Congress

"The Roads That Lead Home" [Jan 1913]

"Dick Whittington and His Cat" [March 1913]

[July 1913]

"Fighting Death" [Solax/Fox 1914] staged by Herbert Blaché /tt0003959/

"Vampire" as Alice Blaché [Metro Pictures Aug 1915] bare credits /tt0146338/

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NOTE: the ★ indicates that the film is available on the 2018 "Pioneers" six-DVD set below

After  Solax

★ "The Ocean Waif"  [Solax/I.F.S. Nov 1916]

Typical romance from Hearst's I.F.S. movie mill; a parody of the Pygmalion story that skewers class conventions; release prints were color-tinted • Produced by Herbert Blaché; directed by Alice Guy; story by Frederick Chapin; starring Carlyle Blackwell, Doris Kenyon, Edgar Norton, Fraunie Fraunholz, William Morris, Augusta Burmeister, Lyn Donelson • credits at IMDb Kino Video b&w DVD [4/2008] for $19.95 double featured on THE DVD with "49-17" [Universal Oct 1917] early Western spoof co-written & directed by Ruth Ann Baldwin; starring Joseph W. Girard, Jean Hersholt & Donna Drew • credits at IMDb

"The Adventurer" [1917] /tt0007614/

"The Empress" [1917] as Alice Blaché /tt0007885/

"A Man and The Woman" [1917] as Alice Blaché /tt0008261/

"House of Cards" [1917] as Alice Blaché /tt0008123/

"When You and I Were Young" [1917] as Alice Blaché /tt0184013/

"Behind The Mask" [1917] as Alice Blaché /tt0007692/

"The Great Adventure" [Pathé Players March 1918] starring Bessie Love /tt0009128/

"The Brat" [Metro Pictures Corp. Sept 1919] /tt0009962/
Directed by Herbert Blaché; starring Alla Nazimova - possibly co-directed by Alice Blaché

"Stronger Than Death" [Jan 1920] /tt0011738/
Directed by Herbert Blaché & Robert Z. Leonard; assistant directors Charles Bryant & Alice Guy; starring Alla Nazimova

"Tarnished Reputations" [Alice's last film; March 1920] /tt0010721/
Directed by Herbert Blaché, Alice Guy & Léonce Perret

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Later  Works

A script for "The Italian Straw Hat" was written by Alice Guy-Blaché prior to 1920; when she offered it to Charlie Chaplin in Hollywood, he declined.
Confusion abounds on the internet, falsely conflating her script with the 1928 silent feature by René Clair.

"Un Chapeau de Paille d'Italie (The Italian Straw Hat)"
silent feature [France Jan 1928]

The tale is based on a XIXth Century French farce, updated by René Clair to 1895. A groom preparing for his marriage takes a shortcut thru the forest, where his horse eats the unique straw hat of a married woman who is dallying with her lover. The lover threatens to destroy the groom's house unless he replaces the hat, to preserve the woman's reputation • Adapted & directed by René Clair; based on the 1851 stageplay by Eugène Labiche & Marc Michel; starring Albert Préjean, Geymond Vital & Olga Tschechowa full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia 88-minute Grapevine Video b&w DVD [5/2012] for $11.99 116-minute Flicker Alley b&w DVD [4/2010] for $28.49 a half-hour version "The Horse Ate The Hat" was released on 9.5mm circa 1931 watch 9.5mm version [9/2018 upload; 31:11] online at YouTube {may require different browser}

Other Works by Alice Guy-Blaché

Alice 'wrote novels from film scripts', after moving back to France in 1922
neither amazon.com nor amazon.FR show any books by Alice Guy except her 1986 memoirs (2019)

Works  About  Alice Guy-Blaché
search for books about film pioneer Alice Guy-Blaché at Amazon

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	"Pour une Contre-Histoire du Cinéma: Essai" [1972] by Francis Lacassin [1931-2008] The first book to recognize Alice Guy's place in cinema history Coédition Institut Lumière/Actes Sud 9½x5 pb [10/94] import/used Editions 10 18 hardcover [1972] out of print/used via Amazon.FR
	"Women Filmmakers: A Critical Reception" [1984] by playwright Louise Heck-Rabi filmmakers examined include Leni Reifenstahl and Lois Weber, and possibly Alice Guy (based on this book appearing in searches on Mlle. Alice) Scarecrow Press 8¾x5¾ hardcover [6/84] out of print/used
	"The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blaché" [1986] Translated by Roberta & Simone Blaché, Edited by Anthony Slide Kindle Edition from Scarecrow Press [1996 edition] for $40.00 {sic} Scarecrow Press 8½x5½ hardcover [5/96] for $42.40 Scarecrow Press 8½x5½ hardcover [8/86] out of print/used
	"Alice Guy-Blaché, 1873-1968: La Première Femme Cinéaste du Monde" [1993] by Victor Bachy Institut Jean Vigo 8¼x5½ hardcover [2/93] for €21,73 via Amazon in France Institut Jean Vigo French-language 8¼x5½ hardcover [2/93] imported/scarce
	"Alice Guy Blaché: Lost Visionary of The Cinema" [2002] by Alison McMahan "A monumental job..." — Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times Continuum 9¼x5½ pb [10/2003] for $24.95 Continuum 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2002] out of print/used Plots Ediciones Spanish-language 9½x6¾ pb [6/2006] for $44.64 author's Alice Guy-Blaché website
	"Alice Guy: Memorie di Una Pioniera del Cinema" [2008] Curated by Prof. Monica Dall'Asta of University of Bologna Cineteca Di Bologna Italian-language 8¼x6 pb [7/2008] for $11.20
	"Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer" [2009] catalog for the exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; edited by {Whitney curator} Joan Simon Yale Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [11/2009] for $40.00 Whitney Museum Alice Guy-Blaché exhibition Nov 2009 - Jan 2010
	"Alice Guy: Autobiographie d'Une Pionniere du Cinema, 1873-1968" [2011] Audiobib French-language CD-ROM [2/2011] for $45.00
	"Alice Guy, Léon Gaumont et Les Débuts du Film Sonore (..and The Beginnings of The Sound Film)" [2012] by Léon Gaumont, [Compiled] under the direction of Laurent Mannoni {French Cinémathèque in Paris} & Maurice Gianati John Libbey Publng French-language 9¾x7½ pb [11/2012] for $36.57
	"Alice Guy: La Première Femme Cinéaste de L'Histoire" biography [2015] by Emmanuelle Gaume The life of Alice Guy in the form of a melodrama French-language Kindle Edition from Plon/Interforum [5/2015] for $16.99 Plon French-language 9x5½ pb [5/2015] for $23.02
	"Silent Women: Pioneers of Cinema" [2016] Edited by Melody Bridges & Cheryl Robson examines historical & artistic impact of filmmakers Dorothy Arzner (interview by Kevin Brownlow), Gene Gauntier, Alice Guy-Blaché, Zora Neale Hurston, Frances Marion, Eslanda Goode Robeson, Nell Shipman, Lois Weber, Maria P. Williams & Marion Wong Kindle Edition from Aurora Metro Press [1/2017] for $4.99 Aurora Metro Press 7¾x5 pb [4/2016] for $21.29
	"Alice & Eiffel: A New History of Early Cinema and The Love Story Kept Secret For A Century" [LWAGB #1 3/2016] by Janelle Dietrick Kindle Edition from BookBaby [2/2016] for $7.99 BookBaby 9x6 pb [3/2016] for $29.00
	"Illuminating Moments: The Films of Alice Guy Blaché" [LWAGB #2 6/2017] by Janelle Dietrick not a filmography per se: 725 synopses of Alice's films inside the premise that they illustrate her private life over time - "or, at the very least, the times in which she lived" Kindle Edition from BookBaby [8/2017] for $7.99 BookBaby 9x6 pb [6/2017] for $20.32
	"The Consequences of Feminism: Women Film Directors" for Kindle [2017] Essays by Noah Berlatsky contains 200 pages of essays, including 7,000-word essay on Alice Guy; other topics include Jennifer Phang's film "Advantageous", Cavani's sexy Nazi film "The Night Porter", and pieces on other film directors, from Lupino to DuVernay to Ono to Breillart - many first written for the arts blog Splice Today Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [6/2017] for $4.99
	"Mademoiselle Alice: A Novel" [LWAGB #3 9/2017] by Janelle Dietrick Novelized biography about Alice's teen years, her longtime love affair with Gustav Eiffel and his refusal to marry her because he was so much older, her marriage to the British Herbert Blaché, and their years together in America making movies . . . Kindle Edition from BookBaby [8/2017] for $7.99 BookBaby 9x6 pb [9/2017] for $20.32
	"Alice Guy: Memoires" autobiography [5/2018] Edited by Catherine Laboubée, Foreword by Martin Scorsese Very confused situation: The book exists, i.e. it was indeed published, but the ISBN on the back cover brings up a different book by the editor; no entry found on either Amazon.com or Amazon.FR (2019); that ISBN is 979-1091-323055 Catherine Laboubée's Facebook page {in French} the book also has a Facebook page {in French}
	"La Fée Aux Choux: Alice Guy's Garden of Dreams" [LWAGB #4 7/2018] by Janelle Dietrick, Foreword by Alice-Guy Blaché Peeters Mdm. Alice said that this film was made in 1896 and thus backed her claim for many firsts in cinema history; but the only print known to exist is dated 1900, allowing male critics to deny such claims; this recent book examines the existing evidence in great detail . . . Kindle Edition from BookBaby [7/2018] for $7.99
	"Mademoiselle Alice Qui Inventa Le Cinéma" children's book [2018] aka "Mademoiselle Alice et Le Cinéma" by Sandrine Beau, Illustrated by Cléo Germain French-language Kindle Edition from Belin/Boussole [3/2019] for $5.99 Belin/Boussole French-language 7½x5¾ pb [3/2018] for $5.09
	"Lights! Camera! Alice!: The Thrilling True Adventures of The First Woman Filmmaker" [ages 6-9; 2018] by Mara Rockliff, Illustrated by Simona Ciraolo Kindle Edition from Chronicle Books [9/2018] for $11.99 Chronicle Books 9½x11¼ hardcover [9/2018] for $14.37

"Alice Guy" episode [July 1963] of "Hieroglyphes" TV series from I.N.A. Paris 15-minute interview filmed by Paul Seban, introduced by Charles Ford (most of this footage is included in the 1995 documentary "The Lost Garden") series not listed at IMDb

"Qui est Alice Guy?" documentary [I.N.A. Paris 1975]

French-language documentary short produced & directed by Nicole-Lise Bernheim; cinema-tography by Maurice Perrimond; animation by Monique Renault; actress Hermine Karagheuz VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • bare credits at IMDb • watch full video [3/2014 upload; ends at 13:55] online at YouTube

"Elle Voulait Faire du Cinéma (She Wanted To Make Movies)"
TV biopic [I.N.A. Paris 1983]

91-minute color TV biopic written & directed by Caroline Huppert; starring Christine Pascal {as Alice Guy-Blaché}, André Dussollier {as Léon Gaumont}, Rosy Varte {as Madame Guy}, Roland Blanche, Philippe Lemaire {as Gustave Eiffel}, Robin Renucci {as Ferdi-nand Zecca}, Hubert Saint-Macary {as Louis Feuillade}, Jean Pignol, Roland Amstutz, Betty Assenza, François Berléand, Gérard Boucaron, Jean-Pierre Dougnac, Jean-Marie Galey, Camille Grandville, Jean-François Kopf, Alain Marcel {as Auguste Lumière}, Jean-Gabriel Nordmann {as Louis Lumière}, Pierre Plessis, Tonie Marshall, Rosette (Quere), Rosine Rochette, Brigitte Roüan {as Madame Gaumont}, Coralie Seyrig, Luc Béraud, Jean Cortot, Jean-Michel Ribes, Jacqueline Huppert, Denys Granier-Deferre, Marie Renoir, Robert Boner, Marc Andréoni, Fabienne Berthaud, Martine De Coninck, Françoise Goussard, Réginald Huguenin, Roger Gerard VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • credits at IMDb

"America's First Women Filmmakers: Alice Guy-Blache and Lois Weber" video set [1995]

four complete silent works from Library of Congress & Smithsonian Video, with new piano scores: Alice Guy-Blache's two 1913 one-reel comedies: "Matrimony's Speed Limit" {IMDb} & "A Home Divided" {IMDb}; and Lois Weber's comedy short "How Men Propose" [1913] {IMDb} & the feature-length "Too Wise Wives" [1921] {IMDb}; includes information booklet LoC/Smithsonian b&w VHS tape [8/95] for $49.95 {sic} Allumination Filmworks b&w VHS tape [8/95] out of prodn/used

"The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché" documentary
aka "Le Jardin Oublié: La Vie et l'Oeuvre d'Alice Guy-Blaché"
[National Film Board of Canada 1995, USA April 1996]

53-minute documentary, French & English versions; produced by Josée Beaudet & National Film Board of Canada; co-written & directed by Marquise Lepage; co-written by Solange Collin; music by Robert Marcel Lepage; cinematography by Jean-Pierre Lachapelle; featuring Roberta Blaché (daughter-in-law of Alice Guy), Adrienne Blaché-Channing (granddaughter of Alice Guy), André Gaudreault, Alison McMahan, Nicolas Seydoux (of Gaumont), historian Anthony Slide, historian Alan Williams, archive footage of Alice Guy, and voice actors Claudine Chatel, Anne Dorval, Françoise Faucher, Kathleen Fee, Jean-René Ouellet, Kelly Ricard, Paul Savoie, Kim Yaroshevskaya; received Quebec's Gemeaux Award for Best Documentary VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb • official movie webpage watch full movie [5/2016 upload; 52:57] online at YouTube

"Alice Guy ou l'Enfance du Cinema" 52-minute TV documentary [1997] by Florida Sadki
http://www.passerelle.be/filmographie/alice-guy-ou-lenfance-du-cinema

	"Looking For Alice Guy" TV documentary [France Sept 2008] 52-minute TV documentary written & directed by Claudia Collao; featuring Bernard Bastide, Jonathan Broda, Claudia Collao, Maurice Gianati, Caroline Huppert, Éric Le Roy, Alain Riou & the voice of Isabel Otero • full credits at IMDb R.D.M. Editions b&w DVD [7/2013] for €7,22 PAL format - via Amazon.FR also available on the 2013 versions of the "Alice Guy 8 Films" DVD as above
	"Frame By Frame: Alice Guy-Blache" webisode [2010] short talking head overview of Alice's career, with several slides featuring Wheeler Winston Dixon, film studies professor at Univ Nebraska Lincoln not listed at IMDb • watch 9/2010 webisode [3:13] online at YouTube
	"Alice Guy, Léon Gaumont et Les Débuts du Film Sonore (..and The Beginnings of The Sound Film)" [2012] by Léon Gaumont, [Compiled] under the direction of Laurent Mannoni {French Cinémathèque in Paris} & Maurice Gianati John Libbey Publng French-language 9¾x7½ pb [11/2012] for $36.57
	"Charles Pathé et Léon Gaumont: Premiers Géants du Cinéma" TV documentary [Arte TV Aug 2016] • Un Film de Emmanuelle Nobécourt et Gaëlle Royer; featuring Ferdinand Zecca, and archive footage of Léon Gaumont, Alice Guy, Joë Hamman, Charles Pathé • The DVD is in French with English subtitles; bonus material includes 8 silent short films, 1901-1927 and 15 minutes of Gaumont newsreels, 1902-1915 • full credits at IMDb • no entry at Wikipedia Gaumont/Arte DVD [12/2018] import/scarce Gaumont/Arte DVD [12/2018] for €19,99 via Amazon France

"The First Woman Filmmaker Nobody's Heard Of" [Fandor 2017]
video essay by Catherine Stratton • watch 9/2017 video [4:00] online at YouTube

"Les Pionnières du Cinéma" DVD Box Set [Lobster Films May 2018]

films of nine influential directors: Dorothy Arzner, Mary Ellen Bute, Dorothy Davenport (Mrs. Wallace Reid), Germaine Dulac, Alice Guy-Blaché, Marie-Louise Iribe, Mabel Normand, Olga Preobrazhenskaya, Lois Weber on 4 disks Lobster Films DVD box set [5/2018] 9 hours on 4 disks - import/used Region 2 Lobster Films DVD box set [5/2018] 4 disks for €34,73 PAL format - via Amazon France DISK 1 contains 9 silent short films by Alice Guy-Blaché: "Greater Love Hath No Man" [1911], "Falling Leaves" [1912], "L’Américanisé" [1912], "The Girl In The Armchair" [1912], "A Fool and His Money" [1912], "For Love of The Flag" [1912], "Algie The Miner" [1912], "Matrimony’s Speed Limit" [1913], "The Ocean Waif" [1916] DISK 1: Region 2 Lobster Films DVD [2/2019] for €9,99 PAL format - via Amazon France DISK 2 contains four silent films: "Suspense" short [July 1913], "Discontent" short [Jan 1916], "The Blot" silent feature [Sept 1921] by Lois Weber, and "Mabel’s Strange Predicament" short [Feb 1914] by Mabel Normand, with Charlie Chaplin & Chester Conklin DISK 3 contains 3 films: "La Cigarette" silent feature [1919] and "La Souriante Mme Beudet (The Smiling Madame Beudet)" silent short [1923] by Germaine Dulac, and "The Woman Condemned" sound feature [April 1934] by Dorothy Davenport (Mrs. Wallace Reid) DISK 4 contains 4 films: "The Village of Sin" aka "Women of Ryazan" silent feature [1927] by Soviet feature film director Olga Preobra- zhenskaya [1881-1971] with the original music of Sergei Dresnin, using recordings of Russian choirs of the time; "The King of The Alders" aka "Der Erlkönig" silent feature [1931] by Marie-Louise Iribe [1894-1934]: a new restoration of a 'unique, beautiful, and long-lost work, revealing the film in its visual and musical splendor'; "Parabola" silent short [1937] by avant-garde filmmaker Mary Ellen Bute [1906-83], co-directed by Rutherford Boyd, Bill Nemeth & Ted Nemeth; "Dance, Girl, Dance" sound feature [Aug 1940] is the most famous film of Dorothy Arzner [1897-1979], the first woman director at the major studios in Hollywood DISK 4: Region 2 Lobster Films DVD [2/2019] for €9,99 PAL format - via Amazon France

"Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers" [Library of Congress Nov 2018]

featured women directors include Ruth Ann Baldwin, Grace Cunard, Gene Gauntier, Alice Guy, Helen Holmes, Zora Neale Hurston, Julia Crawford Ivers, Cleo Madison, Frances Marion, Mabel Normand, Ida May Park, Dorothy Davenport Reid, Nell Shipman, Lois Weber, Elsie Jane Wilson & Marian E. Wong Kino Lorber b&w Blu-ray box set [11/2018] 6 disks for $65.69 Kino Lorber b&w DVD box set [11/2018] 6 disks for $47.90 contains 55 films (11 of them features) and 7 short documentaries: DISK 1 features 14 Solax silent films by Alice Guy { ‡ below }, Gene Gauntier's "The Colleen Bawn" [1911], Elsie Jane Wilson's "The Cricket" [1917], and Lois Weber's "On The Brink" [1911]; DISK 2 is devoted to Lois Weber: 7 shorts & 3 features; DISK 3 focuses on genre pioneers Ruth Ann Baldwin (Western feature "49-17" [1917]) and Cleo Madison and serial queens Helen Holmes (3 chapters of "The Hazards of Helen" [1915]) and Grace Cunard (3 chapters of "The Purple Mask" [1917]), five Keystone shorts by comedienne Mabel Normand including one of Charlie Chaplin's early appearances in "Caught In A Cabaret" [1914], and 3 shorts by Grace Cunard, Cleo Madison, and Zora Neale Hurston; DISK 4 has Lois Weber's featurette "Scandal" [1916] & her abortion/birth control drama feature "Where Are My Children?" [1916], Cleo Madison's two-reeler "Her Defiance" [1916], anti-racist short film "When Little Lindy Sang" [1916], Elsie Jane Wilson's feature "The Dream Lady" [1918], Nell Shipman's feature "Something New" [1920], and Marian E. Wong's "The Curse of Quon Gwon" [1916], the first film made by and featuring Chinese-Americans; DISK 5 includes Ida May Park's 2-minute clip "The Risky Road" [1918] & two-reeler "Bread" [1918], Alla Nazimova's feature "Salomé" [1923], Dorothy Davenport Reid's features "Red Kimona" [1925] & "Linda" [1929], and Lita Lawrence's feature "Motherhood: Life's Greatest Miracle" [1925]; DISK 6 includes 4 features: "The Call of The Cumberlands" [1916] by Julia Crawford Ivers, "Broadway Love" [1918] by Ida May Park, "Back To God's Country" [1919] by Nell Shipman, and "The Song of Love" [1923] by Frances Marion ‡: Alice Guy shorts "Mixed Pets" [1911], "Tramp Strategy" [1911], "Greater Love Hath No Man" [1911], "Algie The Miner" [1912], "Falling Leaves" [1912], "The Little Rangers" [1912], "Canned Harmony" [1912], "A Fool and His Money" [1912], "The High Cost of Living" [1912], "The Coming of Sunbeam" [1913], "Burstup Homes' Murder Case" [1913], "A House Divided" [1913], "Matrimony's Speed Limit" [1913], and the 3-reeler "The Ocean Waif" [1916]

"Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché" docufilm [Zeitgeist Films Dec 2018]  
Kickstarter page: funded 8/2013 • Quicktime video from Kickstarter page [8:14] at Vimeo
The Kickstarter video includes mostly-short clips of Marc Abraham, Stephanie Allain, John Bailey, Peter Billingsley, James Bobin, Diablo Cody, Howard Cohen, John Chu,
Julie Delpy, Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Dino Everett, Anne Fletcher, Catherine Hardwicke, Cheryl Hines, Chris Horak (UCLA), Neil Hunt (Netflix), Sir Ben Kingsley,
Kevin MacDonald, Anastasia Masaro, Alison McMahan, Vadim Perelman, Robert Redford, Julie Anne Robinson, Martin Scorsese, Floria Sigismondi, Joan Simon
(Whitney Museum), Anthony Slide, Valerie Steel, Mark Stetson, Kevin Stitt, Julie Taymor, Anand Tucker, Marc Wanamaker, Loretta Weinberg & Alan Williams

"She saw the future thru the camera lens" • Executive produced by Robert Redford; co-produced by Abigail Disney, Hugh M. Hefner, historian Anthony Slide, and others; co-produced, co-written & directed by Pamela B. Green; co-produced & co-written by Joan Simon; co-produced & narrated by Jodie Foster; featuring Richard Abel, Marc Abraham, Stephanie Allain, Gillian Armstrong, John Bailey, filmmaker Cari Beauchamp, Lake Bell, Peter Billingsley, James Bobin, Serge Bromberg, historian Kevin Brownlow, Jon M. Chu, writer Diablo Cody, Bobby Cohen, Howard Cohen, Susan Constantine, Julie Corman, Robert Dassanowsky, Geena Davis, Peter Decherney, Julie Delpy, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Bryony Dixon, Frederik Du Chau, Ava DuVernay, Dino Everett, Peter Farrelly, Elsie Fisher, Anne Fletcher, Anne Fontaine, Jean-Michel Frodon, Jane Gaines, Janeane Garofalo, Pierre-William Glenn, Maxine Haleff, Catherine Hardwicke, Rob Haworth, Michel Hazana-vicius, Cheryl Hines, Jan-Christopher Horak, Neil Hunt, Gale Anne Hurd, Patty Jenkins, Ben Kingsley, Wayne Kramer, Roland-François Lack, filmmaker Marquise Lepage, Kevin Macdonald, Anastasia Masaro, Alison McMahan, Tom Meyers, film editor Walter Murch, Deborah Nadoolman, Chloe Page-Relo, Tatiana Page-Relo, Vadim Perelman, Pierre Rissient, Julie Anne Robinson, Mark Romanek, Andy Samberg, animator Marjane Satrapi, Cathy Schulman, Vanessa Schwartz, Floria Sigismondi, Joan Simon, historian Anthony Slide, Cecile Starr, Mark Stetson, Kevin Stitt, Drake Stutesman, Julie Taymor, Anand Tucker, Agnès Varda, historian Marc Wanamaker, Loretta Weinberg, Alan Williams & Evan Rachel Wood, with archive footage of Alice Guy-Blaché, Simone Guy & Bessie Love DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official website • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 7/2013 official trailer [2:25] online at Vimeo • watch 3/2019 official trailer [2:35] online at YouTube

"Jodie Foster & Pamela B. Green on the Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché" [2018]
panel/interview by Lesli Klainberg, Executive Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center at the 56th New York Film Festival 2018
watch interview [23:40] online at YouTube Internet Archive

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Family & Friends
Alice Ida Antoinette Guy was born near Paris, France in 1873; her film career lasted from 1896 to 1922; she lived in France
from 1922 to 1964 and died in New Jersey in 1968 at age 94.

husband Herbert Blaché-Bolton [1882-1953] - married 1907, divorced 1922  
credits [1912-29] at Internet Movie Database

daughter Simone Blaché [1908-??]

son Reginald Blaché [1912-??]
Roberta Blaché (daughter-in-law of Alice Guy)
Adrienne Blaché-Channing (granddaughter of Alice Guy)

granddaughter Regine Blaché-Bolton [d. 2016]
was president of "Société des Amis d'Alice Guy"; somebody else continues its official blog

great-great-granddaughter Alice-Guy Blanche Peeters  

lover & friend Gustave Eiffel [1832-1923]

scholar Alison McMahan
seems to operate this Alice Guy Facebook page {last update 2013}
and maybe this Solax Film Facebook page {last update 2014}

L i n k s
official Alice Guy Blaché-Bolton website (in French}
Alice Guy-Blaché entry at Wikipedia
search for books about film pioneer Alice Guy-Blaché at Amazon
Alice Guy-Blaché credits [1896-1920] at Internet Movie Database

Whitney Museum (NYC) Alice Guy-Blaché exhibition Nov 2009 - Jan 2010 • { poster in new window }

Académie de Lyon built the Collége Alice Guy in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, circa 2015
Alice Guy-Blaché page on the Who's Who in Victorian Cinema website

The Prix Alice Guy (Alice Guy Prize) was established in 2018 by France's French-language CineWoman online webmagazine [est. 2011] 'Qui est Alice Guy?' page at French-language Prix Alice Guy website

Alice Guy-Blaché [1873-1968] Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

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