Inventing The Movies

This novelized biography brings Alice Guy back to us, all of her determination, her creativity, her passion, her flaws, and her glory.

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Lost Visionary of The Cinema

This book provides a close analysis of the one hundred Guy Blaché films that survive, and in the process rewrites early cinema history.

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Recent News & Updates

Hugo, a hommage to silent cinema
Posted on Nov 25, 2011

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I went to see Hugo expecting more a children's adventure movie. Instead what I found was a 3D love letter to early cinema.

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Vote to Induct Alice Guy to the New Jersey Hall of Fame
Posted on Nov 6, 2011

Tom Meyers of the Fort Lee Film Commission has asked me to pass on this request to my blog readers. The State of New Jersey has many residents to be proud of and every year a handful are inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in different categories.  Building on the success of their efforts to have Alice Guy Blaché inducted into the Directors Guild of America, the Fort Lee Film Commission is now working tirelessly to have Alice Guy Blaché inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in the historical figure category. Other nominees for the 2012 historical category are Aaron Burr, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Grover Cleveland, Irene Hill Smith and Annie Oakley.

 

The deadline for voting is December 31st, 2011. Anyone can vote by following this link, logging in, and voting.

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Alice Guy Blaché inducted into the DGA
Posted on Oct 26, 2011

On October 13, 2011, one hundred and one years after Alice Guy Blaché produced her first film out of her Solax Studio, and forty three years after her death the Director's Guild of America inducted her as a member.

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