Movies: Alice Guy-Blaché

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....

Impressionism and expression of a view, Mavy uses fragments of the ocean landscapes of Alice Guy's studies through fluctuations of bright nuances and an imitation of these tormented waves in the eyes of a modern camera...

A silent film, likely about someone leaving a bath...

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)....

M. Dona appears in this Alice Guy film where he performs the title song....

Old Joel Smith is charged with murder in the first degree. At the trial he pleads in opposition to his own lawyers. He explains that he is now too old to be of any assistance to his widowed daughter and his grand-children who are dependent on him for...

A youth, the only survivor of a shipwreck, is rescued by two old fishermen. One of the fishermen, who has a little girl the boy's age, decides to adopt him. Ten years later a New York lawyer comes to the fishing town and wants to adopt the child who ...

An impecunious chap is unable to pay his rent, whereupon he is ejected, but all his furniture is retained and he is allowed to remove only his rolling bed. Pulling this a few blocks, he is exhausted and lies down on the bed to rest. He is soon the ce...

Unverified phonoscene (chronograph #7 in Gaumont catalogue?) showing a performance of the cake walk....

A bullfighter dances with a woman....

A magician transforms a tiny dinner table into a full meal for a homeless man....

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

Held at MoMA...

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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 is lost....

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A married couple, suspecting one another of infidelity, decide to "live separately together."...

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Madame Ondine performs a serpentine dance surrounded by big cats....

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