- Description:
- BluRay - Zone A. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
24 fps
Titles
+ At the Hypnotist’s
- Alternate Title:
- Chez le magnétiseur
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1898
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Comedy
- Notes:
- A hypnotist tricks his patients.
+ Wonderful Absinthe
- Alternate Title:
- La bonne absinthe
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1899
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Comedy
- Notes:
- Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe.
+ At the Photographer’s
- Alternate Title:
- Chez le photographe
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1900
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Comedy
- Notes:
- A client has trouble listening to the photographer’s instructions.
+ Cabbage-Patch Fairy, The
- Alternate Title:
- La fée aux choux
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1900
- Language:
- French and English intertitles
- Genre:
- Fantasy
- Notes:
- The fairy at a cabbage patch hovers over the babies. This is a remake of Guy’s 1896 film on the same subject, this time shot in 35 mm.
+ Turn-of-the-Century Surgery
- Alternate Title:
- Chirurgie fin de siècle
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1900
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Horror
+ Midwife to the Upper Class
- Alternate Title:
- Sage femme de première classe
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1902
- Language:
- French and English intertitles
- Genre:
- Fantasy
- Notes:
- A wonderful midwife helps a rich couple pick out a baby from her cabbage patch.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Alice Guy Films a “Phonoscène”
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1905
- Language:
- French and English intertitles
+ Results of Feminism, The
- Alternate Title:
- Les résultats du féminisme, The Consequences of Feminism
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1906
- Language:
- French and English intertitles
- Genre:
- Comedy
- Notes:
- It’s a society in which gender roles are switched. Will men stand to be unequal?
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Drunken Mattress, The
- Alternate Title:
- Le matelas alcolique
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 10 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1906
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Comedy
- Notes:
- An alcoholic is inadvertently sewn into a mattress.
+ Hierarchy of Love, The
- Alternate Title:
- La hiérarchie dans l’amour, The Maid and The Officers, The Hierarchies of Love
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1906
- Language:
- French and English intertitles
- Genre:
- Comedy
- Notes:
- A pretty maid is out walking and encounters a series of military men, starting with a private, who lose her to higher ranks.
+ Madame Has Her Cravings
- Alternate Title:
- Madame a des envies
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1906
- Language:
- French and English intertitles
- Genre:
- Comedy
+ Sticky Woman, A
- Alternate Title:
- Une femme collante
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1906
- Language:
- French and English intertitles
- Genre:
- Comedy
- Notes:
- A lady uses her maid to lick her stamps, when an overtly excited man notices the maid, forcibly kisses her, and they wind up stuck to each other.
+ Rolling Bed, The
- Alternate Title:
- Le lit à roulettes
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1907
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Comedy
+ Glue, The
- Alternate Title:
- La glu
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short.
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1907
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Comedy
- Notes:
- A boy spreads glue all over town.
+ Coming of Sunbeam, The
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Solax
- Running Time:
- Short. 12 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1913
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Comedy
- Notes:
- Proud old Major Neal disowns his only child, a beautiful girl, because he considers her marriage a misalliance. Years pass. The old major becomes a recluse feared by all. One morning, a hamper is found beneath the Major’s covered driveway.The hamper contains a baby girl.
+ Trottins Polka, The
- Alternate Title:
- La polka des trottins
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1905
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Music Video
- Notes:
- Félix Mayol performs The Trottins Polka (La Polka des Trottins, by A. Trebitsch and H. Christine) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early form of music video was created using a chronophone recording of Mayol, who was then filmed “lip singing”. Guy would film phonoscenes of all three major Belle Époque celebrities in France: Polin, Félix Mayol, and Dranem.
+ In a Bamboo Hut
- Alternate Title:
- À la cabane Bambou
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1905
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Music Video
- Notes:
- Alice Guy experiment with visuals and sound by Félix Mayol.
+ Indiscreet Questions
- Alternate Title:
- Questions indiscrètes
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1905
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Music Video
- Notes:
- Felix Mayol performs a song, in colour.
+ Anatomy of a Draftee, The
- Alternate Title:
- L'Anatomie du conscrit
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1905
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Music Video
- Notes:
- Polin performs a song.
+ Five O’Clock Tea
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1905
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Music Video
- Notes:
- Dranem performs “Five O’Clock Tea” for Alice Guy.
+ True Jiu Jitsu, The
- Alternate Title:
- Le Vrai Jiu Jitsu
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1905
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Music Video
- Notes:
- 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 form of music video was created using a chronophone recording of Dranem, who was then filmed “lip singing”. Guy would film phonoscenes of all three major Belle Époque celebrities in France: Polin, Félix Mayol, and Dranem.
+ Bathing in a Stream
- Alternate Title:
- Baignade dans un torrent
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1897
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- A group of kids play in a stream.
+ Serpentine Dance by Madame Bob Walter
- Alternate Title:
- Danse serpentine par Mme. Bob Walter
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1897
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- Mme. Bob Walter performs the serpentine dance.
+ Turn-of-the-Century Blind Man
- Alternate Title:
- L'aveugle fin de siècle
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1898
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Comedy
- Notes:
- A blind man begging for change tries to outsmart a cop.
+ Illusionist Scene
- Alternate Title:
- Scène D’escamotage
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1898
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Comedy
- Notes:
- An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.
+ At the Club
- Alternate Title:
- Au Cabaret
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1899
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Comedy
- Notes:
- Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe.
+ Automated Hat-and-Sausage-Maker
- Alternate Title:
- Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder, Chapellerie et charcuterie mécanique
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1900
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Comedy
- Notes:
- A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other.
+ Avenue de l’opéra
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1900
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- A shot of a busy street in Paris is shown in reverse.
+ Dance of the Seasons: Winter
- Alternate Title:
- Danse des saisons : L'hiver, danse de la neige
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1900
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Dance
- Notes:
- A dancer personifying Winter, dances in the snow.
+ Serpentine Dance by Lina Esbrard
- Alternate Title:
- Danse serpentine par lina esbrard
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1902
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Dance
- Notes:
- Lina Esbrard performs a serpentine dance.
+ How Monsieur Takes His Bath
- Alternate Title:
- Comment monsieur prend son bain
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1903
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Comedy
- Notes:
- A hapless man tries to get undressed only to find himself magically layered in even more clothes.
+ What Is A Flag
- Alternate Title:
- Ce que c'est qu'un drapeau
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1909
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Music Video
- Notes:
- M. Dona appears in this Alice Guy film where he performs the title song.
+ The Birth, Life, and Death of Christ
- Alternate Title:
- La naissance, la viem et la mort du christ
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 33 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1906
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Drama
- Notes:
- The stations of Christ’s life are segmented into a series of performative tableaux.
+ On The Barricade
- Alternate Title:
- Sur la barricade’
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1907
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Drama
- Notes:
- During the Paris Commune, a boy runs across trouble at the barricade.
+ Race for the Sausage
- Alternate Title:
- la course à la saucisse
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1907
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Comedy
- Notes:
- A dog chasing after sausage trips up the town with its leash.
+ Banknote, The
- Alternate Title:
- Le billet de banque
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 12 minutes
- Sound:
- silent, optional soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1907
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Comedy
- Notes:
- A rich man rewards a tramp for defending him from muggers with a large sum of money in the form of a single bank note. Nobody can cash the big bill the tramp is carrying and hilarity ensues.
+ Standing Cock, The
- Alternate Title:
- Le coq dressé
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1910
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Documentary
- Notes:
- Early experiment with sound has a rooster making his call.