Movies: Alice Guy-Blaché

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

"This funny individual will make you laugh until your sides ache. He is funny in all his actions, yet when he puts on his shoes you can imagine the noise he can make when he dances an ordinary clog. The shoes referred to are made of some elastic mate...

During the Paris Commune, a boy runs across trouble at the barricade. The film is now attributed to Alice Guy-Blaché by the Gaumont company, although there is some debate about whether it was directed by Étienne Arnaud....

A young couple is trying to get together while the girl's father is trying to break them up....

The Spring Fairy gives a beautiful gift to a welcoming couple....

The film was taken the 27th of May, 1906 during the Gran Corrida organized by the Press Association of Nîmes. Although lost, it should not be confused with "Course de taureaux à Nîmes" (1910)....

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Dick, a young boy hears wondrous tales of London, where the streets are paced with gold. At night he dreams of the capital. The next day he leaves his country home to see his fortune in London. He fails to find work at first and is almost starving wh...

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A client has trouble listening to the photographer's instructions....

An heiress is saved from the predations of a gang of gentleman crooks by a female detective and her father....

Based on the opéra comique of the same name, the film follows the exploits of Italian brigand Fra Diavolo....

A spoof of Sherlock Holmes. Directed by Alice Guy-Blache for Solax Film Company....

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 suggested to Léon Gaumont that he abandon simple animated views to shoot small scripted stories. Authorizat...

Held at MoMA...

Several dogs copiously "water" a rose on a lawn. A young lover arrives, delicately picks the flower and offers it to his beloved....

Two mediocre detectives try and catch a notorious pickpocket. Meanwhile, an innocent man is mistaken for the pickpocket and is forced to put on a disguise to evade capture....

Vinnie, Colonel Beggs' daughter, complains to her father that Lieutenant Sterling is paying her unwelcome attentions. The Colonel assures his daughter that she has no cause for fear. He immediately forgets the incident, as important military developm...

Mrs. Hurley is a wealthy old lady who is rather proud of her antecedents. Her son, a young, clean-cut, college-bred man, like other gilded youths, makes the acquaintance of an actress and the inevitable follows. He marries her, much against the com...

A parson arrives in the midst of a bunch of wild cowboys. Expecting a male parson, the boys set out in full force to receive him, but on the road when they suddenly run into the one-horse shay of a female parson, they keel over in surprise. Right aft...