lost visionary

Whitney Museum Retrospective

Submitted by alison on Mon, 2009-09-28 08:22
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Winter 2009

The Whitney Museum of Art in New York retrospective of the work of Alice Guy Blache (catalog available from Yale University Press):
November 6, 2009 - January 20, 2010  Read more »

Jane Plymale, Univ of Georgia, Athens.

Submitted by admin on Mon, 2009-09-21 19:41
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March 15th edition of 'Library Journal'

Right: Alice Guy Blaché directing  Read more »

Amelie Hastie, Cineaste

Submitted by admin on Mon, 2009-09-21 19:40
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Alice Guy Blaché was the first woman filmmaker in the world. She was the first and sole director for the French House of Gaumont until 1905; there she experimented with a variety of genres and techniques, including early sound production, from 1895-1907.  Read more »

Bruce Calvert, Google Group

Submitted by admin on Mon, 2009-09-21 19:37
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I had a really long airplane ride today, so I read most of a book called Alice Guy Blaché, Lost Visionary of the Cinema, by Alison McMahan. I already knew that Guy was the first woman who directed films. I didn't know that she directed hundreds, maybe 2000 films. Of course most were very, very short, since she started about 1896 or 1897.  Read more »

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