Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

Alice Guy experiment with visuals and sound by Félix Mayol.

Nouveau Cirque performs the cake-walk.

A father who is determined his daughter should marry a count leading the boyfriend to dress up as the count to thwart his plans.

The parish priest looks to create a Nativity scene for his church, but his congregation is too poor to afford the statuary dealer's price for a...

Three wartime friends, two wealthy, and one poor, reunite at an upscale dinner party. Things take a turn when the poor man is accused of stealing...

"Danse fantaisiste" (Gaumont #589) is part of the "Miss Lina Esbrard. Danseuse cosmopolite et serpentine" series of 4 films, and should not be...

A dog runs away with a length of sausage. Chaos erupts as the butcher chasing the dog collides with bystanders who angrily follow.

Early short film by Emile Cohl

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

Polin performs a song.

Silent film

Held at MoMA

"Les Acrobats" is the second short film (out of 5) in the series "Les Malabares", which were filmed during the exhibition of the Malabari, an Indian...

Felix Mayol performs Théodore Botrel's 'Lilas-blanc'.

Paul Wellard is leaving home for the city. He goes to say good-bye to his mother and finds her at the organ singing her favorite hymn. For a while he...

Remake of the 1895 by the Lumière Brothers. A similar scene is filmed from a different angle, and a young man has replaced the prankster child.

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