Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

Columbine resists Pierrette's courting in favour of Harlequin in this hand-coloured short by Alice Guy.

Mme. Bob Walter performs the serpentine dance.

A client has trouble listening to the photographer's instructions.

A biodoc about the first female filmmaker and her relative disappearance from the history of cinema.

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...

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

Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city.

A boy spreads glue all over town.

The kids of a game-keeper get into a chase with rifles.

A runaway barrel wreaks havoc all over the city.

A four-year-old saves the day.

A spoof of Sherlock Holmes. Directed by Alice Guy-Blache for Solax Film Company.

A Jewish man is treated poorly by a member of the upper-class. When tragedy strikes, the Jewish man has an opportunity for revenge, but he turns the...

A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other.

Felix Mayol performs a song, in colour.

Early short film by Emile Cohl

Actuality film of miners entering a mine.

It was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

A balding man drinks a whole bottle of hair tonic. The unexpected surplus of hair promises a successful showbiz career for him and his wife.

"Wild Bill" Gray is a renegade and a wife-beater. He is about to start on some expedition of crime and his wife implores him to stay at home. She...