Alice Guy-Blaché — Director (50)
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Man Monkey (1906) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
La vérité sur l'homme-singe
director: Alice Guy-Blaché
other title: La vérité sur l'homme-singe / The Truth Behind the Ape-Man …
A gentleman visits a hair consultant for his baldness problems. The latter recommends a new lotion. The gentleman lets himself be convinced and a bellboy is immediately dispatched for the delivery which arrives at the concierge's lodge. The concierge, curious, and believing it to be good wine drinks a good part of it. He then tops up the bottle with water from the carafe. His wife goes to take his package to the gentleman. The concierge who does not feel well goes to bed quickly. When he wakes up he is perked up. But dismay, he is completely covered in hair. At first frightened, his wife and he come up with an idea. They get hired by an impresario in a music hall number, to a big success.
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Algie, the Miner (1912) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Algie, the Miner
director: Edward Warren / Harry Schenck … actor: Billy Quirk / Mary Foy
other title: Algie, el minero / Algie the Miner …
When Algie Allmore asks to marry Clarice, the young woman's father gives him one year to prove that he's a man.
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At the Floral Ball (1900) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Au Bal de flore
director: Alice Guy-Blaché actor: Miss Lally / Miss Julyett
other title: Au Bal de flore / Au bal de Flore …
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 filmmaker Alice Guy (attributed only, but not confirmed in any primary sources).
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Turn-of-the-Century Surgery (1900) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Chirurgie fin de siècle
director: Alice Guy-Blaché
other title: Chirurgie fin de siècle
George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin de Siecle (1900) is more widely available. And it’s not one to watch the night before an operation. In this clinic, a sign pleads “On est prie de ne pas crier/Please do not cry”, and the doctors set about the patient with saws, cheerily hacking off limbs, and then slopping them into a bucket, all the while arguing ferociously with each other. They then reattach arms and legs from a bucket of “exchange pieces” (using glue) before re-animating their victim, I mean patient, with bellows. (from http://silentlondon.co.uk/2015/01/23/10-disgusting-moments-in-silent-cinema/)
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Wonderful Absinthe (1899) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
La Bonne absinthe
director: Alice Guy-Blaché
other title: La Bonne absinthe / La bonne absinthe …
Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe. There is no known credited director for this film, although the attribution usually goes for Alice Guy.
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At the Club (1899) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Au cabaret
director: Alice Guy-Blaché
other title: Au cabaret / Au Cabaret
Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe. There is no known credited director for this film, although the attribution usually goes for Alice Guy.
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A Sticky Woman (1906) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
La femme collante
director: Alice Guy-Blaché
other title: Die klebrige Frau / La femme collante …
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.
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Pierrette's Escapades (1900) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Les Fredaines de Pierrette
director: Alice Guy-Blaché actor: Julia Petit / Melle de Fretières
other title: Les Fredaines de Pierrette / Pierrette …
"Les Fredaines de Pierrette" is the collective name of four short films of 20 meters each ("Arrivée de Pierrette et de Pierrot", "Arrivée d'Arlequin", "Suite de la danse", and "Départ d'Arlequin et de Pierrette"), attributed to Alice Guy (although not confirmed in any primary source), in which Columbine resists Pierrette's courting in favor of Harlequin. From July 1901, the series were made available hand-colored.
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Félix Mayol Performs "The Trottins' Polka" (1905) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
La polka des trottins
director: Alice Guy-Blaché actor: Félix Mayol
other title: La polka des trottins / La Polka des trottins
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.