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jeudi 2 octobre 2014

BE NATURAL Alice Guy Blache La fata dei cavoli. Memorie di una pioniera del cinema.

La fata dei cavoli. Memorie di una pioniera del cinema.

jeudi 18 septembre 2014

©riginal BE NATURAL ALICE GUY BLACHE 1911 ,,, Movingpicturenew04unse_0607

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... THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS 9 .... MADAME ALICE BLACHE President of Solax Company To the indefatigable industry, the experience, enterprise and progressiveness of this little lady is due the remark- able success which has been achieved by the Solax Company during the comparatively short time it has been in business ..

vendredi 25 juillet 2014

Alice Guy Blache Be Natural Portrait

Alice Guy-Blaché (Painting #7 of 13) “Influential Women”

Alice Guy-Blaché
1873 – 1968

“Be Natural”

Surely, Léon Gaumont could not have foreseen the typist he hired to do clerical work would turn out to be one of the most inventive and influential filmmakers in the fledging years of the motion picture industry in France. In 1896, after two years with Gaumont Films, Alice Guy was head of production for the company. Under her direction, the first narrative films were developed, a shift from the street scenes vignettes heretofore popular subjects for audiences around the turn of the century. By 1906 Alice was writing, directing and producing several short films a week at Gaumont. A decade before D. W. Griffith’s seminal Birth of a Nation in the US, Alice made The Life of Christ, one of the largest budget productions anywhere in its day. She has not been properly credited for such cinematic first as: split screen, double exposure, reversing shots, and for overseeing the development of “Chronophone”, the first sound recordings synced with picture. In 1930, Léon Gaumont published the history of his company with no mention of Alice or any productions prior to 1907. Understandably upset, Alice, wrote a letter to Gaumont, and he agreed to change the text to include her contributions leading to the success of his company. These promised changes never made it into print and were never published.

In 1907, Alice Guy became Mrs. Alice Guy-Blaché, when she married the scoundrel, Herbert Blaché, another Gaumont employee who worked as a production manger. The newly weds set sail for America to head the Gaumont company’s expansion into the US market. By 1910, the couple in partnership with moneyman George A. Magie, felt secure enough in their abilities to sever ties with Gaumont and form the largest pre-Hollywood film company, Solax. First located in Flushing New York, the success of their partnership soon saw them relocating to Fort Lee N.J., the epicenter at the time for motion picture production. With Alice as artistic director, and Herbert as production manager and cinematographer, the company flourish under a large sign Alice had place in the facility quoting her motto: “Be Natural.” Despite the complications of being the mother of two young daughters, Alice, as head of Solax, continued to write, direct and produce as many as three films a week. In order to focus more on writing and directing, Alice put the presidency of their company solely in Herbert’s hands. The exodus of many of the Fort Lee film companies to the warmer, less expensive climes of the West Coast, where they could escape the Edison patent thugs, meant a decline in East Coast production and a decline in Solax’s fortunes – as well as Alice and Herbert’s marriage. After starting another company, Herbert deserted Alice and their two children and ran off to Hollywood with one of his actresses.

Alice briefly made films for William Randolf Hearst, but the loss of her husband and the transplanting of the film industry to the West coast, soon found Alice in bankruptcy. She returned to France with her daughters and although for the next 30 years lectured and wrote about film, Alice never made another movie. Alice Guy-Blaché’s twenty four years in the industry and nearly one thousand films, were virtually forgotten by the film community until she received the Légion d’honneur (1953) in her native France. Barely a third of her work still exist (mainly the films she directed featuring Charlie Chaplin), her legacy has been revived by the New Jersey Film Commision with a monument in her honor in Fort Lee, NJ, the site of her Solax studio. Her contrabutions to the art of filmmaking have influenced and are evident in every film that is made to this day.https://www.facebook.com/aliceguyblache

(Painting photo: Mark Serman)

lundi 13 janvier 2014

A SOLAX CELEBRATION Alice Guy Be Natural©riginal ©1992 by Alice Guy Jr.

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Allice Guy Blache Be Natural ©riginal by Alice Guy Jr

A SOLAX CELEBRATION Cast: The Cause... Madame Alice Guy Blaché A Relative-but an outsider .....Herbert Blache
In Be Natural 1913 ©riginal by Ace Slax © 1992

A SOLAX CELEBRATION

Cast:

The Cause... Madame Alice Guy BlachéA Relative-but an outsider .....Herbert Blache
In Be Natural 1913 ©riginal by Ace Slax © 1992

samedi 16 novembre 2013

" BE NATURAL ! " The ©riginal Story of Alice Guy by Alice Guy jr

"Be natural !" Alice Guy

" BE NATURAL ! " The ©riginal Story of Alice Guy by Alice Guy jr

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" BE NATURAL ! " The ©riginal Story of Alice Guy by Alice Guy jr

lundi 13 mai 2013

Danse serpentine par Mme Bob Walter est un film français réalisé par Alice Guy en 1897.

Danse serpentine par Mme Bob Walter est un film français réalisé par Alice Guy en 1897.

dimanche 12 mai 2013

Alice Guy tourne une phonoscene Studio des Buttes Chaumont 1904-1905

Alice Guy tourne une phonoscene 1904 studio Buttes Chaumont Cité Elge

Véritable making of avant la lettre, ce film d'Alice Guy montre le tournage d'un des films sonores produits par la Gaumont au début du XX^e siècle.

La caméra placée derrière les techniciens permet de voir les différentes phases du tournage : un assistant donne les dernières directives d'emplacement aux acteurs, les phonographes sont réglés une dernière fois et on commence l'enregistrement. Un léger panoramique horizontal vers la droite permet de découvrir le système d'éclairage qui ressemble à une batterie d'énormes quinquets dont s'échappe parfois une inquiétante fumée.

Alice Guy dès l’origine, croit au film parlant. En 1905, elle utilise un appareil, le "chronophone Demenÿ", qui combine l’enregistrement sonore sur rouleau de cire et l’image filmée. L’essentiel de l’activité d’Alice Guy en 1906 et jusqu’au printemps 1907 consistera à réaliser 160 phonoscènes pour le chronophone. Dépassant rarement une ou deux minutes, ils reproduisent surtout des chanteurs en action ou des tableaux illustrés par des chorals. Après les Ballets de l’Opéra (avec Gaillard et la maîtresse de ballet), les Sœurs Mante danseuses mondaines, elle enregistre la classe de Rose Caron rose-caron.blogspot.com du Conservatoire dans Carmen, Mignon, Manon, les Dragons de Villars, les Cloches de Corneville, Madame Angot, la Vivandière, Fanfan la Tulipe, le Couteau de Théodore Botrel. Elle enregistre à la faveur d’un voyage en Espagne des Danses gitanes Viendront interpréter leur répertoire devant sa caméra et ses enregistreurs : La Belle Otero, Mayol, Dranem, Polin...