Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

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

When Algie Allmore asks to marry Clarice, the young woman's father gives him one year to prove that he's a man.

A woman wearing dragonfly wings performs a romantic dreamlike dance.

A biodoc about the first female filmmaker and her relative disappearance from the history of cinema.

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

A turn-of-the-last-century hand-tinted short, which features two women, Miss Lally and Miss Julyett, dancing at a ball. By the legendary French...

It was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Ragna "Rags" Jansen has found local success and acclaim in her small town as an actress, but dreams of stardom on Broadway.

Serpentine dance.

Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe.

Actuality film of miners entering a mine.

A blind man begging for change tries to outsmart a cop.

Charlotte Baker is drugged and taken to a brothel by Paul, her fiance, who in reality is a pimp. To find her, Charlotte's family contacts the...

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.

Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

Mme. Bob Walter performs the serpentine dance.

A boy is fishing in a stream when some others see an opportunity for mischief.

Armand Dranem performs The True Jiu-Jitsu ("Le Vrai Jiu-Jitsu", by P. Briollet & G. Fabri / C. D'Orviet) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early...