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Gaumont treasures, 1897-1913, Alice Guy, Gaumont Video ; Kino International ; Gaumont ; Cinémathèque Française ; curated by Pierre Philippe, Disc 1

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Gaumont treasures, 1897-1913

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Gaumont Video ; Kino International ; Gaumont ; Cinémathèque Française ; curated by Pierre Philippe

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Alice Guy

This collection looks at pioneering French filmmakers from the Gaumont studio, with extensive examples of their work. Few individual artists have exerted as profound an influence upon the evolution of cinema as Alice Guy (later known as Guy-Blaché). With this collection of more than 60 films, culled from the world's leading archives and carefully mastered, Guy may no longer be seen as a "woman filmmaker." These films, produced by Guy for Gaumont before she moved to the U.S., reveal her to be an unqualified pioneer of motion pictures

Fisherman at the stream = Pêcheur dans le torrent, (1897), Bathing in a stream = Baignade dans un torrent, (1897), Serpentine dance = Danse serpentine, (1897), Turn-of-the-century blind man = Aveugle fin de siècle, (1898), At the hypnotist's = Chez le magnétiseur, (1898), Burglars = Cambrioleurs, (1898), Disappearing act = Scène d'escamotage, (1898), Surprise attack on a house at daybreak = Surprise d'une maison au petit jour, (1898), At the club = Au cabaret, (1899), Wonderful absinthe = Bonne absinthe, (1899)Avenue de l'Opera, (1900), Automated hat-maker and sausage-grinder = Chapellerie et charcuterie automatiques, (1900), At the photographer's = Chez le photographe, (1900), Dance of the seasons: winter, snow dance = Danse des saissons: L'Hiver, danse de la neige, (1900), Landlady = Concierge, (1900), Turn-of-the-century surgery = Chirurgie fin de siècle, (1900), Pierrette's escapades = Fredaines de Pierette, (1900), At the floral ball, featuring Miss Lally and Miss Julyett of the Olympia = Mesdemoiselles Lally et Julyett de l'Olympia, au bal de flore, (1900), Cabbage-patch fairy = Fée aux choux, (1900)Serpentine dance by Lina Esbrard = Lina Esbrard, Danse serpentine, (1902), Midwife to the upper class = Sage-femme de première classe, (1902), Untimely intrusion = Intervention malencontreuse, (1902), Miss Dundee and her performing dogs = Miss Dundee et ses chiens savants, (1902), How monsieur takes his bath = Comment Monsieur prend son bain, (1903), Faust and Mephistopheles = Faust et Méphistophélès, (1903)Saharet performs the Bolero = Saharet, Boléro, (1905), Polin performs 'The anatomy of a draftee' = Polin, L'Anatomie du conscrit, (1905), Dranem performs 'The true jiu-jitsu' = Dranem, Le Vrai Jiu-jitsu, (1905), Dranem performs 'Five o'clock tea' = Dranem, Five O'clock tea, (1905), Félix Mayol performs 'Indiscreet questions' = Félix Mayol, Questions indiscrètes, (1905), Félix Mayol performs 'The Trottins' polka' = Félix Mayol, La Polka des trottins, (1905), Félix Mayol performs 'White lilacs' = Félix Mayol, Lilas-Blanc, (1905)Birth, the life and the death of Christ = Naissance, la vie et la mort du Christ, (1906), Obstacle course = Course d'obstacle, (1906), Madame's cravings = Madame a des envies, (1906), Sticky woman = Femme collante, (1906), Hierarchies of love = Hiérarchie dans l'amour, (1906), Cruel mother = Marâtre, (1906), Story well spun = Histoire roulante, (1906), Drunken mattress = Matelas épeliptique, (1906), Parish priest's Christmas = Noël de Monsieur le curé, (1906), Truth behind the ape-man = Vérité sur l'homme-singe, (1906), Consequences of feminism = Résultats du féminisme, (1906), Ocean studies = Effets de mer, 1906), Game-keeper's son = Fils du garde-chasse, 1906), Race for the sausage = Course à la saucisse, (1907), Glue = Glu, (1907), Fur hat = Bonnet à poil, (1907), Cleaning man = Frotteur, (1907), Four-year-old hero = Héroïne de quatre ans, (1907), Rolling bed = Lit à roulettes, (1907), Irresistible piano = Piano irrésistible, (1907), On the barricade = Sur la barricade, (1907), Dirigible 'Homeland' = Ballon dirigeable 'Le Patrie', (1907)

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Alice Guy