Alice Guy
- Active years (films on this site)
- 1906–1912
- Schools and movements
- Early and Pioneering Cinema
Directors worked with
Biography
Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché was a French pioneer film director. She was the first filmmaker to make a narrative fiction film, as well as the first woman to direct a film. From 1896 to 1906, she was probably the only female filmmaker in the world. Her first film was La Fée aux Choux, and her last was Tarnished Reputations (1920). She experimented with Gaumont's Chronophone sync-sound system, and with color-tinting, interracial casting, and special effects. She was artistic director and a co-founder of Solax Studios in Flushing, New York. In 1912, Solax invested $100,000 for a new studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey, the center of American filmmaking prior to the establishment of Hollywood. That year, she made the film A Fool and His Money, probably the first to have an all-African-American cast.
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Awards and honours
International
- New Jersey Hall of Fame 2013
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
2 films on this site
- The Consequences of Feminism 1906 · Alice Guy-Blaché · IMDb 6.7 · Writer
- Algie the Miner 1912 · Alice Guy-Blaché · IMDb 5.7 · Producer