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“a French film pioneer who invented the director’s job.” Barbara Streisand

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Barbra Streisand is credited with calling Alice Guy-Blaché “a French film pioneer who invented the director’s job.” And indeed that is true, because in the early days of moviemaking, long

before there was a film industry, everyone was just making it up as they went along, experimenting with the new technology. Because Guy-Blaché crafted stories, she shaped what it meant to be a director as the role is defined today

Alice Guy Blache Be Natural Portrait

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)

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ALICE GUY LOUIS FEUILLADE

"ALICE GUY CINEMA PREMIER" GAUMONT

ous ferez des films, c'est d'accord, c'est une affaire de fille, mais en dehors de vos heures de travail et à condition que votre courrier n'en souffre pas."

early women filmmakers presented on the American Movie Classics cable network. Although not the true premier Cinema auteur, Alice Guy-Blache will be remembered as a pioneer.

LE CINEMA PREMIER ALICE GUY Gaumont

vous ferez des films, c'est d'accord, c'est une affaire de fille, mais en dehors de vos heures de travail et à condition que votre courrier n'en souffre pas." C'est ainsi que la Gaumont a incité , Alice Guy, née en 1873, à se lancer dans la réalisation et la production cinématographiques. A la toute fin du XIXe siècle, la société Gaumont et Compagnie avait pour objet la fabrication et la vente de matériel photographique. C'est donc pour commercialiser son chronophotographe que la Elge souhaitait présenter à ses clients des vues animées. Dès 1896, Alice Guy a mis en scène ses premiers courts métrages, en démarrant par La Fée aux choux, tourné dans un jardin clos à Belleville, avec quelques amis. Première cinéaste puis productrice, Alice Guy est persuadée qu'il est possible de filmer autre chose que les sujets choisis par les frères Lumière : des sorties d'atelier, des vues de train... "Il me semblait qu'on pouvait faire mieux", disait-elle. Ses tout premiers films s'apparentent à des sketchs proches des numéros de cirque (Miss Dundee et ses chiens parlants, 1902), des captations de chorégraphies proches de celles de Loïe Fuller ou des gags, comme Comment Monsieur prend son bain (1903). Les talents d'Alice Guy seront davantage reconnus lors de la sortie de son film de 35 minutes - fort long pour l'époque -, La Vie du Christ (1906). Il a nécessité une centaine de figurants et vingt-cinq décors.

Alice Guy dirige toute la fiction cité Elge. Un secteur qu'Alice Guy défriche avant de le confier à Louis Feuillade, au moment où elle part, en 1908, s'installer aux Etats-Unis avec son mari,Herbert Blache Bolton qui représentait Gaumont.

Figure dominante du cinéma outre-Atlantique, elle fait construire un gigantesque studio, Solax, implanté dans le New Jersey a Fort Lee. Contrairement à tous les usages, elle pose des petites pancartes à l'intention des comédiens : "Soyez naturels !", les exhorte-t-elle. Rien ne semble l'effrayer : ni les tournages avec des animaux sauvages ni les cascades imposées aux comédiens... En 1912, Alice Guy-Blaché est la seule femme qui gagne aux Etats-Unis plus de 25 000 dollars par an. Ce qui n'empêche pas son mari de faire l'erreur de vendre les droits de The Lure (1914), qui fut pourtant un immense succès au box-office américain, pour une bouchée de pain.

Malgré les 700 films qu'elle a réalisés, scénarisés ou produits, Alice Guy, rentre ruinée en Europe en 1922. Son studio a été vendu à l'encan. Elle meurt en 1968,le 24 mars il y a tout juste 40 ans, aux Etats-Unis, où elle s'est installée à nouveau sur la fin de sa vie, avec sa fille. A deux pas de son ancien studio.Elle a consacrée les 25 dernieres années de sa vie a rechercher un de ses 700 films, tous disparu, ses memoires dont une dizaine de telefilm ont ètè tirés, seront èditè 8 ans après sa mort. Aujourd'hui 100 ans après son dèpart de la Gaumont ,miracle du cinema ,Paramount.Gaumont edite un dvd avec 64 film "disparu" depuis plus d'un siecle.Et de nombreux films de la SOLAX company pour illustrer leur documentaire.
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