My youth, my lack of experience, my sex all conspired against me. — Alice (image via Women Film Pioneers Project) She directed the first pre-Hollywood narrative film, shaped major voices of French cinema, founded her own studio in 1910, experimented beyond silent films with 1,000 motion pictures and worked with the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Louis Lumiere — so why is Alice ommitted from so many cinema textbooks and forgotten in legacy remembrances?
A woman to Know: Alice Guy Blache
A woman to Know: Alice Guy Blache
A woman to Know: Alice Guy Blache
My youth, my lack of experience, my sex all conspired against me. — Alice (image via Women Film Pioneers Project) She directed the first pre-Hollywood narrative film, shaped major voices of French cinema, founded her own studio in 1910, experimented beyond silent films with 1,000 motion pictures and worked with the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Louis Lumiere — so why is Alice ommitted from so many cinema textbooks and forgotten in legacy remembrances?