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| Be natural "In the Year 2000" by Alice Guy Solax |
50 ans après la mort d'Alice Guy, un siècle après avoir tourné son dernier film, Mémoires d Alice Guy Edition 2018 . Librairie Appel 20 Bd. VOLTAIRE Paris 01 47 00 64 88
Alice Guy Blache by Emmanuelle Gaume with Alexandra Lamy
dimanche 21 septembre 2014
BE NATURAL ©riginal story of ALICE GUY BLACHE since 1894 by Alice Guy Jr تكون القصة الأصلية الطبيعية أليس الرجل blache بواسطة أليس الرجل صغار
jeudi 18 septembre 2014
©riginal BE NATURAL ALICE GUY BLACHE 1911 ,,, Movingpicturenew04unse_0607
©riginal BE NATURAL ALICE GUY BLACHE 1911 ,,, Movingpicturenew04unse_0607
... 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 ..
... 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 ..
dimanche 7 septembre 2014
“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
vendredi 25 juillet 2014
Alice Guy Blache Be Natural Portrait
Alice Guy-Blaché (Painting #7 of 13) “Influential Women”
Alice Guy-Blaché
1873 – 1968
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)
© Laurence Revene, 2014mardi 24 juin 2014
Madame Alice Guy Blache narrowly escaped serious injury Be Natural оригинальная история Алисы парень BLACHE Алисой парень младшего
lundi 9 juin 2014
Be Natural ...Hilary Greatorex has been visiting schools in Hertfordshire dressed at Alice Guy Blache, the first woman film director, to inspire children to explore filmmaking.
dimanche 8 juin 2014
Be Natural Alice Guy Blaché (March 11, 2014) ( Paper Doll) by Bridget McAlonan -
Es sobrecogedor intentar relatar la historia
de una mujer que es tanto un icono cinematográfico como una leyenda casi
mitológica. Ante todo Alice Guy fue una pionera.
Alice Guy, francesa del siglo XIX, empezó a trabajar como secretaria de un
pionero de la industria del cine, que se dedicaba a fabricar máquinas
fotográficas. Fue la primera mujer en asistir a una demostración privada
del nuevo invento de Louis Lumière: el antecesor de la cámara de vídeo.Cuando su jefe, Léon Gaumont, perfeccionó el rudimentario aparato de Lumière, la joven Alice Guy – de tan solo 23 años – tuvo la idea definitiva: el aparato podría usarse para contar historias animadas, lo que el cine necesitaba era narrar. Decidió que demostraría el valor de su idea llevándola a cabo ella misma.
Fue ella la que realizó la primera película per sí de la historia del cine, lo que la convierte en el primer cineasta del mundo. Una mujer fundó el cine. La primera producción cinematográfica (en el sentido moderno de la palabra) de la historia se llamó La Fée aux Choux (El hada de las coles).
Como Méliès y otros muchos pioneros del cine, no tuvo el suficiente poder para poder competir con Hollywood, y en la Meca del cine no había sitio
En un artículo mucho más completo que éste podéis encontrar información sobre la filmografía y biografía más completa de este titán del cine experimental
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