*Be Natural* Alice Guy Blache’s film The Cabbage Fairy is widely regarded as the first narrative film

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Blache’s film The Cabbage Fairy is widely regarded as the first narrative film

But with this smorgasbord of different inventions in the technology of film-making, viewing and projection, what was actually drawing the audiences into the Kinetoscope Parlours, amusement arcades, and viewing theatres (no proper ‘cinemas’ until 1904), was the films themselves – often no more than a minute or two long. Alice Guy Blaché  was the first female film director that we know of, and the author of the first narrative film – predating those of Lumiere by a few months.