Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

A re-telling of the classic tale of Faust in all of two minutes by French filmmaker Alice Guy.

A pregnant woman steals things from others on account of her cravings.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

An extremely clumsy man tries to clean a woman's house with disastrous results.

A dog runs away with a length of sausage. Chaos erupts as the butcher chasing the dog collides with bystanders who angrily follow.

Mme. Bob Walter performs the serpentine dance.

Columbine resists Pierrette's courting in favour of Harlequin in this hand-coloured short by Alice Guy.

A lady uses her maid to lick her stamps, when an overtly excited man notices the maid, forcibly kisses her, and they wind up stuck to each other.

A shot of a busy street in Paris is shown in reverse.

The fairy at a cabbage patch hovers over the babies. This is a remake of Guy's 1896 film on the same subject, this time shot in 35 mm.

An alcoholic is inadvertently sewn into a mattress.

A four-year-old saves the day.

George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin...

Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe.

Armand Dranem performs The True Jiu-Jitsu ("Le Vrai Jiu-Jitsu", by P. Briollet & G. Fabri / C. D'Orviet) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early...

Cute one-trick doggie show. The backdrop is beautifully detailed, yet the illusion of depth is humorously broken by the balloon bouncing off the set.

A wonderful midwife helps a rich couple pick out a baby from her cabbage patch.

Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe.

A client has trouble listening to the photographer's instructions.