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The fascinating memoir of influential French filmmaker Alice Guy
Blache, one of the industry's most significant pioneers and a
trailblazer for female directors. Alice Guy Blache (1873-1968) is a
unique pioneer of the motion picture, being not only a female
filmmaker but also one of the first, if not the first, to make a
narrative film. Her career spanned from 1894, when she became
secretary to the legendary Leon Gaumont, through 1920, working in
both her native France and the United States. In all, she was
responsible for approximately 1,000 films, possibly more than any
other director or producer. The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blache was
first published in 1976, and to a large extent led to her
rediscovery after decades of relative obscurity. Guy Blache writes
of her beginnings in the motion picture industry, her direction not
only of silent films but also some of the earliest synchronized
sound motion pictures, her marriage and journey to the United
States, the founding of her own studio in New Jersey, her fame, and
the sad journey into obscurity in the 1920s. Her story reveals both
the opportunities and the ultimate rejection facing a woman
director in the early years of the twentieth century. These
first-hand and original memoirs are enhanced with a complete
filmography, an epilogue by her daughter Simone, a brief biography
of her director husband, Herbert Blache, a remembrance by feminist
actress/writer Madame Olga Petrova, and a sampling of contemporary
articles on the director. Through it all, Alice Guy Blache's
personal charm, good humor, and modesty shines.
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