Casts largely unidentifed ; sound films feature Félix Mayol, Polin, or Dranem. Title from container. Accompanying booklet: Alice Guy, woman's work and the cinema. Part 1: The Gaumont years to early Solax comedies / Kim Tomadjoglou. Originally produced in France as motion pictures between 1897 and 1910. Collection curated by Kim Tomadjoglu, who also authored the booklet essay. Full screen 1.33:1. Special features: restoration comparison.
Contents:
The standing cock The cabbage-patch fairy (1910) -- Restoration comparison. Sage femme de première classe = Midwife to the upper class (1901) -- Madame a des envies = Madame has her cravings (1906) -- La hiérarchie dans l'amour = The hierarchy of love ( The maid and the officers) (1907) -- Les résultats du féminisme = The results of feminism (1906) -- The coming of Sunbeam (Solax 1913) -- Alice Guy tourne un photoscène dans les Studios des Buttes-Chaumont = Alice Guy films a phonoscène (1907) -- La polka des trottins = The trottins polka (1905) -- À la cabane bambou = In a bamboo hut (1905) -- Questions indiscrètes = Indiscreet questions (1905) -- L'anatomie du conscrit = The anatomy of a draftee (1905) -- Five o'clock tea (1905) -- Le vrai jiu jitsu = The true jiu jitsu (1905) -- Une femme collante = A sticky woman (1906) -- La glu = The glue (1907) -- Le matelas alcolique = The drunken mattress (1906) -- Le lit à roulettes = The rolling bed (1907) -- Baignade dans un torrent = Bathing in a stream (1897) -- Danse serpentine par Bob Walter = Serpentine dance by Madame Bob Walter (1897) -- L'aveugle fin de siècle = Turn-of-the-century blind man (1898) -- Chez le magnétiseur = At the hypnotist's (1898) -- Scène d'escamotage = Illusionist scene (1898) -- Au cabaret = At the cafe (1899) -- La bonne absinthe = Wonderful absinthe (1899) -- Chez le photographie = At the photographer's (1900) -- Chapellerie et charcuterie mécaniques = Automated hat-and sausage-maker (1900) -- Avenue de l'opéra (1900) -- Danse des saisons: L'Hiver, danse dans la neige = Dance of the seasons: winter (1900) -- Chirugie fin de siècle = Turn-of-the-century surgery (1900) -- Danse serpentine par Lina Esbrard = Serpentine dance by Lina Esbrard (1902) -- Comment monsieur prend son bath = How monsieur takes his bath (1903) -- Ce que c'est qu'un drapeau = What is a flag? (1909) -- La naissance, la vie et la mort du Christ = The birth, life, and death of Christ (1906) -- Sur la barricade = On the barricade (1907) -- La course à la saucisse = Race for the sausage (1907) -- Le billet de banque = The banknote (1907) -- Le coq dressé = The standing cock (1910) -- Restoration comparison.
Summary:
After years of relative obscurity, Alice Guy Blach is now being recognized for her role in the development of the cinematic arts. Beginning as a typist for the Gaumont Company, she volunteered to produce a series of novelty films. So successful were her films, and so efficient her methods, she eventually became the studio's head of production. During cinema's first decade, the multi-talented Guy Blach experimented with color and synchronized sound.
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