Alice Guy Blache by Emmanuelle Gaume with Alexandra Lamy

Alice Guy Blache by Emmanuelle Gaume with Alexandra Lamy
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Affichage des articles dont le libellé est regine blache bolton. Afficher tous les articles

samedi 23 novembre 2019

1894-1907 Alice Guy travaille avec Georges Demenÿ #aliceguy #aliceguy1894 #aliceguyblache #motherofcinema #herstory #aliceguystory

1894-1907 Alice Guy travaille avec Georges Demenÿ #aliceguy #aliceguy1894 #aliceguyblache #motherofcinema #herstory #aliceguystory



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https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011291565144 These are frames from Georges Demeny's 1896-97 60mm films which Alice said “only recorded a small range of the black-and-white spectrum and produced images that were too sharply contrasted.” As you can see, if it's in the shade, it doesn't come out. There is a lot of talk about these early films being copied to 35mm but I don't see why they would copy them.

samedi 26 octobre 2019

Se Natural La Pionera de Pamela B Green La historia muy interesante de Alice Guy contada de una forma muy aburrida y farragosa por Pamela B Green. The untold story of Pamela B Green

Alice Guy La Pionera "Se Natural" The untold story of Pamela B Green https://www.facebook.com/aliceguyblache/Tiene narices que una película para reivindicar a una figura tan importante para la historia del cine se parezca más a un documental de sobremesa al estilo de Crímenes Imperfectos que al cine. He aquí un magnífico ejemplo de cómo una causa noble está llevada a cabo con unos medios nefastos. Una pena que a pocos parezca importarle esto y no falten los elogios hacia la película o las buenas notas en Filmin. Cómo vamos a hablar mal de una causa tan valiosa, pensarán. Estoy indignada. Si Alice Guy pudiese hablar, espero que lanzase un escupitajo a esta película.
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La historia muy interesante de Alice Guy  contada de una forma muy aburrida y farragosa por Pamela B Green.

mercredi 23 octobre 2019

For the love of the flag - Alice Guy - 1912 #aliceguy #aliceguysolax #aliceguyblache #motherofcinema


 ... . The acting is as good as the situation permitted. Miss lilanche Cornwall plays the heroine; Darwin Karr, the hero who, net very fortunately for the picture, is also a fugitive from the just law. "FOR THE LOVE OF THE FLAG" (Solax), Sept. 25 ... https://archive.org/stream/movinwor14chal#page/n147/mode/2up
 For the love of the flag - Alice Guy - 1912 #aliceguy #aliceguysolax #aliceguyblache #motherofcinema

vendredi 18 octobre 2019

Serge Bromberg plaisantin têtu en matière d'histoire du cinéma. In Be Natural the Untold story of Pamela B Green.

Serge Bromberg plaisantin têtu en matière d'histoire du cinéma. In Be Natural the Untold
story of Pamela B Green. #aliceguy #retourdeflamme #aliceguymythomane #aliceguylapionera #madredelcine #motherofcinema #sergebromberg #aliceguyVsgaumont #pionera #aliceguyjr #aliceguybenatural #2012
Maurice Gianati made giant leaps over his own evidence, which he put in the footnotes. The footnotes showed that Alice Guy moved to the Belleville property in 1898 (not 1902), and that Leon Gaumont in 1897 filed under seal in the secretariat of the Conseil des Prud’hommes de Paris the titles and paper samples of the Series N films to protect them against falsification. Alice Guy provided details about these films. Gianati’s most facile argument was that Alice Guy was too old in the 1950s and 1960s to remember what she did in 1896. He acknowledged that he deliberately ignored the statements about this subject that she made starting in 1912 when she was only 39. JJ Dietrick

She Invented the MoviesShe Invented the Movies

jeudi 17 octobre 2019

Alice Guy Blache 1956 She Invented the Movies

Alice Guy-Blache, la Ire femme metteur en scene. — Vous êtes bien jeune, mademoiselle, pour occuper un poste aussi important. — Ne craignez rien, monsieur, cela me passera ! Telle fut la repartie que M. Leon Gaumont, alors fonde de pouvoirs du Comptoir General de Photographie, recevait a bout portant un beau jour de 1894. Son interlocutrice etait une frele jeune fille de dix-neuf ans, au regard decide, qui briguait la place de secretaire du patron. Elle s'appelait Alice Guy. Elle fut engagee. Deux ans plus tard, Gaumont, ayant rachete le Comptoir, s'interesse au cinematographe naissant. Les freres Lumiere l'ont invite en mars 1895, ainsi que sa bouillante petite secretaire, a la fameuse seance de la Société de Photographie ou ils presentent le premier film : « La sortie des Usines Lumiere ». Gaumont a depuis construit ses propres appareils. Ses operateurs et ceux des Lumiere (qui arreteront leur exploitation en 1898) mitraillent a la ronde les scenes de la rue : arrivees de trains, defiles militaires, etc... Le premier emerveillement passe, cela devient monotone. La petite Alice Guy, qui a l'esprit vif, declare a son patron : — II faudrait tourner des petits sketches, avec costumes, mise en scene, etc... — Bonne idee, repond Gaumont. Occupez-vous en donc. Ce cinematographe est tout a fait du travail pour jeune fille !

Alice Guy avise une plateforme goudronnee a ciel ouvert en bordure des ateliers Gaumont, mobilise les services d'un peintre en eventails qui habite dans le voisinage, ecrit un scenario, trouve des acteurs benevoles, s'adjoint un operateur, plante un decor en carton découpé et peint. Et en route ! Voila le premier film a scenario tourne aux ateliers Gaumont: « La fee aux choux ». II a 30 metres et la pellicule 60 mm. de large. Nous sommes en 1896. La Française Alice Guy vient de prendre date pour se classer premiere femme metteur en scene du monde. Interrogee sur son titre, bien des annees apres, par le fils, de son ancien patron, M. Louis Gaumont, elle lui ecrit : « ... Je pense que les Lumiere, avec L'arroseur arrose, sont les premiers metteurs en scene ; je ne revendique que le titre de premiere femme metteur en scene, auquel je fus seule, pendant 17 ans, a avoir droit ». Pendant les annees qui suivent La fee aux choux Alice Guy met en scene pour la maison Gaumont plus de cent films. De ceux-ci il ne reste malheureusement que les titres des catalogues, des photos et quelques fragments, dont ceux d'une Passion qui fut en France l'ceuvre la plus importante et la plus grave d'Alice Guy et que l'on vient de retrouver en Allemagne. II est probable que l'interet que suscitent dans le public, enfin averti, l'étonnante carriere et la personnalite d'Alice Guy, va contribuer a faire sortir ses films de leurs poudreuses cachettes. Alice Guy, metteur en scene chez Gaumont, voyait ses films inscrits au catalogue de la maison. Ils n'etaient que rarement presentes au public sous son nom, exception faite de cette Passion, film de 800 metres, avec 21 decors et une vaste figuration, dont elle possede encore toutes les photos. Devenue prematurement veuve en 1922, elle rentra en France apres avoir liquide son studio de New-Jersey, mais le monde du cinema se montra peu enclin a faire place a cette revenante. Brisee par la perte de son mari et le bouleversement de sa vie, Alice Guy ne pensa plus qu'a elever ses enfants. En femme de devoir simple et courageuse, elle rentra dans l'obscurité que tout le monde semblait si bien s'accorder a lui laisser en partage. Elle en sort aujourd'hui avec un peu d'etonnement. Charmante vieille dame qui a garde toute sa vivacite d'esprit, elle habite un sixieme ensoleille non loin de l'Opera. La Cinematheque Française a fete recemment ses 85 printemps. Au cours de la reception donnee en son honneur, M. Louis Gaumont a pris la parole pour dire ce que fut son ceuvre. Elle n'a pas aujourd'hui de plus zélé champion que le fils de son ancien patron. Demandez un jour dans un club de cinema de quand date le premier film parlant. Alice Guy-Blache peut vous repondre, car c'est elle qui l'a tourne en 1902. Cela s'appelait dans ce temps-la des « phonoscenes » : on enregistraitd'abord la voix sur rouleau de cire, puis le phonographe etant synchronise avec la camera, on procedait a l'adaptation des gestes sur les paroles : procédé inverse de celui du doublage actuel. II existe une magnifique photo a contre-jour montrant, au fond, sur une scene eclairee par des projecteurs a arc, la cantatrice Rose Caron jouant une scene de Mignon, tandis qu'on distingue en ombre chinoise 1'immense pavillon d'un phonographe a rouleau et une camera entre lesquels se dresse, toute mince, l'intrépide petite silhouette d'Alice Guy, reglant la mise en scene. — Ah ! nous dit Alice Guy-Blache en nous montrant sa collection unique de photographies, les artistes de ce temps-la avaient la fierte de la conscience professionnelle ! Un jour, Rose Caron, pendant qu'elle jouait une scene de Mignon deja enregistree, posait le pied sur un charbon incandescent qui avait saute d'une lampe a arc. Souffrant horriblement, elle joua la scene jusqu'a la fin et s'evanouit. Si je m'en etais aper<,:ue, j'aurais fait interromprej^la prise de vues, mais elle n'avait pas voulu, « pour si peu », dit-elle, nous faire recommencer le travail. Alice Guy a mis en scene et dirige, tantot seule, tantot avec des assistants qu'elle choisissait elle-meme, une centaine de ces « chronophones » parmi lesquels plusieurs operacomiques et operettes, et des chanteurs comiques comme Mayol, Dranem, Polin. Le comique faisait prime a l'epoque dans ces courtes bandes que Pathe et Gaumont produisaient a la douzaine et les artistes « serieux )) y regardaient a deux fois avant de se commettre avec la nouvelle invention. Caruso, pressenti, accepta, puis se ravisa. C'etait le temps ou le cinema connaissait de beaux jours dans les baraques foraines et Alice Guy-Blaché, dont les films comiques etaient fort apprecies, a la-dessus de bien pittoresques souvenirs qu'elle racontera, nous l'espérons, dans les memoires qu'elle est en train d'ecrire et dont un editeur avise ne tardera certainement pas a s'emparer. Loin de se terminer avec son mariage en 1907, la carriere d'Alice Guy devenue Mme Blache, prenait un nouvel essor. Son mari ayant ete nomme agent de la maison Gaumont aux Etats-Unis, qu'allait faire cette dynamique petite femme de son temps et de ses energies disponibles ? C'est bien simple : elle fit construire son propre studio a Fort Lee, dans le New-Jersey, non loin de NewYork, et se mit a tourner des films. Scenariste et metteur en scene, et de plus proprietaire de la firme Solax Co qu'elle a fondee, elle realise jusqu'en 1918 environ deux cents films dont un grand nombre de titres nous ont ete conserves. Elle y dirige les vedettes de l'epoque : Bessie Love, Julia Moore, Dolores Costello, Nazimova, Olga Petrova, Ethel Barrymore, Tom Mix. Son mari, a la fin de son contrat avec Gaumont, vient se joindre a elle. Alice Guy-Blache est bien connue a cette epoque dans tout le monde du cinema americain : elle est en relations amicales avec Griffith. Elle lutte dur au milieu des intrigues et des embuches qui commencent a se dresser sous les pas des pionniers avec la naissance des grandes compagnies. Pendant dix-huit mois la Metro a vecu de la production de la Solax. Ses autres films etaient distribues par la First Nation, aujourd'hui reprise par Warner, la World Pathe, etc... Puis vient l'intrusion des grandes combinaisons financieres dans l'industrie du cinema, le commencement de 1'exode vers la Californie et la naissance d'Hollywood, la mort d'Herbert Blache... La courageuse petite veuve   se sent trop desarmee : elle abandonne la partie, elle rentre en France, en France ou elle a tant fait pour le cinema et ou on ne veut plus d'elle... Et tombe le rideau de l'oubli tandis que
disparait définitivement pour le cinema « l'age de l'innocence ».

She Invented the Movies

lundi 14 octobre 2019

The Empress . under the direction of Madame Alice Guy Blaché featuring Doris Kenyon & Ocean Waif #AliceGuy #AliceGuyBlaché #DorisKenyon #CarlyleBlackwell #motherofcinema Golden Eagle Features

She Invented the Movies 

Alice Guy Blache

The Empress . under the direction of Madame Alice Guy Blaché   featuring Doris Kenyon 

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Ocean Waif #AliceGuy #AliceGuyBlaché #DorisKenyon #CarlyleBlackwell #motherofcinema Golden Eagle Features https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvlCVC8Ueqw

AN INTERESTING STATEMENT By Madame Alice Blache of the Solax Company

AN INTERESTING STATEMENT By Madame Alice Blache of the Solax Company
Madame Alice Blaché, president of the Solax Motion Picture Company, known as the only woman of prominence manufacturing and producing moving pictures, and the pioneer in the productio
n of grand opera in motion pictures, said in discussing the Dowling amendment to the Folks ordinance placing all films under the supervision of the Board of Education:
“Before making serious changes the manufacturers of films should be given an opportunity to be heard. A board of censorship should be composed, in addition to the members of the Board of Education of practical business men and film manufacturers. The exercise of a rigid censorship would work considerable harm, and a reaction after too much censorship is likely to ruin the industry.”
In discussing children and moving pictures, because the attendance of children at picture shows makes censorship necessary, she said:
“Twenty school children, not one of them above the age of fourteen, accompanied by their teacher visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on a Sunday afternoon not very long ago. The class consisted of boys and girls. The children were of the type one sees in the recreation centers and playgrounds in the tenement sections of a cosmopolitan city. They were bright children and shuffled through the corridors of the marble museum with eyes full of enquiry and minds making mental photographs of the wonderful collections on exhibit. The zigzag line of these impressionable youngsters eventually filed into the large hall where are exhibited wonderful works from the sculptor’s chisel.
“The kids regarded the nude statues with a peculiar surprise. Some were embarrassed, and faced the teacher with somewhat averted eyes. The teacher, who understood children,--not because she had any of her own, but because she had not forgotten her own childhood—took in the situation and with tact managed to put the children at their ease. She made plain to them the difference between vulgar nakedness and nude art. As an example, she pointed to Rodin’s Pygmalion and Galatea, and she told them the charming legend of the statue that came to life. The story told by the teacher immediately cloaked Galatea’s nude figure with poetry. It made them forget sexual outline, and evicted from their minds any sex-consciousness.
“These same children and thousands like them attend moving picture shows. Those who know children at all know that the children of ‘the other half’ are wise in the ways of the world, and in life itself, and have a surprising knowledge of human nature,--more knowledge than their years would indicate. These children read the sensational newspapers with the avidity that they observe sensational moving picture films. The high average of child attendance at the moving picture shows and the diversity of opinion with regard to the influence for evil certain pictures have on the juvenile mind, makes the task of the film producers a rather difficult one. If manufacturers were to follow the advice of old maids,--who of course, understand the bringing up of children—and male tea-drinkers—the market would be crowded with nothing but fairy stories. The triangular plot and stories of real life would be taboo. It is sometimes wondered whether it is at all possible for a film of the type of ‘The Wages of Sin,’ etc., to influence a child in the ways of righteousness and steer it on to the straight and narrow path. Is it not at all possible that a film exercises the same influence as that teacher exercised over her children at the museum? Or is it impossible because the self-constituted bodies who superintend the public morals, can see nothing in creations like Pygmalion and Galatea but vulgar nakedness?
“The trouble with most well-meaning meddlers who undertake to prescribe for children of their neighbors is that they forget that they have been children themselves. They forget that they have resisted as many temptations, and perhaps more than their parents. And they forget that their children with proper home influences or good influences at the schools will resist as many temptations as they have resisted in their childhood. There is a difference of opinion as to whether the picture shows will counteract the influence of the school and home. To go exhaustively into the merits of films manufactured to-day would mean considerable discussion—but narrowing the question as far as films affect juvenile delinquency, is it not a matter of opinion as to whether children really commit the same crimes that they see in moving pictures? In pictures, the criminals are invariably punished. Can we not find any other reason for the juvenile delinquency except the one that it is caused by the sight of an overt act which the children try to emulate? Is it not reasonable to assume that the schools and colleges have failed in their missions if children cannot be taken to a moving picture show, and be shown a burglar entering a house without arousing in them the desire to commit a similar rime? The ostrich that digs its head in the sand to evade capture, feeling a mistaken security in darkness, usually is surprised to find itself captured. Its own ignorance is its undoing. By shutting our eyes against the evils that exist in this world, we will not succeed in eliminating these evils. They exist and will exist, and the more we talk about them, the more they are discussed, the more apt are we to correct them. Hypocrites and the “I am holier than thou” element are not the kind who helps society.
“Because they lived in darkness and in ignorance, do we call those who lived centuries before us primitive?
“At this time, when pictures are being shown in schools and colleges, and when the classics and exact scientific operations are flashed on the screen, when real dramas and operas are shown with more effectiveness and realism than on the legitimate stage, it is about time folks stopped to throw the harpoon into the hide of the moving picture manufacturers; it is about time that a real board of censorship is legislated into power; not a board composed of raw college students, tea-drinkers and old maids, but a board composed of mothers, fathers, practical men and women who are paid by the commonwealth to do a public service, to stamp out absolute immorality and absolute vulgarity that is flashed on the screens solely to entertain the morbid. There’s a marked difference between matters of ‘taste’ and ‘immorality.’ Manufacturers welcome criticism and censorship, but they will not tolerate the vagaries of meddling hypocrites.”


mercredi 9 octobre 2019

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연스러운 연기가 굉장히 일반적이지 않은 것이기 때문이었다. 이렇듯 영화사 전체적으로 인문학적 주제면에서도, 영화 기술 면에서도, 연기론적 측면에서도, 그리고 최초의 미국 여성 감독을 배출하기도 했던 것처럼 제작자 측면에서도 상당한 의미가 있을 알리스 기 블라쉐는 그러나, 초~중기 남성 중심의 영화사가 및 평론가들의 무지와 게으름과 여성천시주의 때문에, 자신에 대한 정확한 영화사적 기록은 물론 자신의 대부분의 작품까지도 보존되지 못하는 불행을 겪는다. 그러나 다행히 많은 사람들의 노력으로 알리스의 작품들이 세계 곳곳의 영상자료원에서 발견되고 있으며 덕분에 영화사는 .



연스러운 연기가 굉장히 일반적이지 않은 것이기 때문이었다. 이렇듯 영화사 전체적으로 인문학적 주제면에서도, 영화 기술 면에서도, 연기론적 측면에서도, 그리고 최초의 미국 여성 감독을 배출하기도 했던 것처럼 제작자 측면에서도 상당한 의미가 있을 알리스 기 블라쉐는 그러나, 초~중기 남성 중심의 영화사가 및 평론가들의 무지와 게으름과 여성천시주의 때문에, 자신에 대한 정확한 영화사적 기록은 물론 자신의 대부분의 작품까지도 보존되지 못하는 불행을 겪는다. 그러나 다행히 많은 사람들의 노력으로 알리스의 작품들이 세계 곳곳의 영상자료원에서 발견되고 있으며 덕분에 영화사는 .