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The Films of Alice Guy #1

Four short comedies from film pioneer Alice Guy-Blaché, the first female director.



 

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Billy bluffs his way into a musician’s favor with a musical disguise and well-hidden phonograph player.

Starring Billy Quirk · Directed by Alice Guy-Blaché

A woman fakes suicide to test her husband’s love, but he knows her game and decides to play along.

Starring Marian Swayne and Vinnie Burns · Directed by Alice Guy-Blaché

Algie tries his hand at mining under the tutelage of Big Jim but it is not long before Jim comes to rely on Algie as much as Algie does on him.

Starring Billy Quirk · Directed by Alice Guy-Blaché, Harry Schenck, and Edward Warren

A policeman goes undercover as a woman to catch a pickpocket, but when his wife finds an unfamiliar dress in the closet, she comes to a different conclusion.

Starring Fraunie Fraunholz and Marian Swayne · Directed by Alice Guy-Blaché


Additional content

  • All the films in this collection feature an original, scene-specific piano score compiled from period appropriate photoplay music.

 

Information

Definition:

480p SD

Total length:

63 minutes

 

Format

  • On-demand DVD

 

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