Remnants of the Past: A filmography of Early Cambodian Cinema by LinDa Saphan & Nate Hun
The Search for lost Remnants of Cambodia's Cinema
This novelized biography brings Alice Guy back to us, all of her determination, her creativity, her passion, her flaws, and her glory.
This book provides a close analysis of the one hundred Guy Blaché films that survive, and in the process rewrites early cinema history.
Alison McMahan is the author of the award-winning Alice Guy Blaché, Lost Visionary of the Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2002) and The Films of Tim Burton: Animating Live Action in Hollywood (Bloomsbury, 2005). She has a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies and Women's Studies from Union Institute & University. She produces documentaries for Homunculus Productions, and writes screenplays and fiction. Contact: [email protected]
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Alice Guy Honored at the Olympics
In the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Paris last summer, ten golden statues honoring French women of accomplishment were displayed and highlighted, including one of Alice Guy. The statues emerged from the Seine, adding a message about gender equality to the Olympics.
Video clip of Alice's four-meter tall statue emerging from the Seine. Note that the gold rings acnkowledge that she made her first film, The Cabbage Fairy, in 1896.
Lumière Film Factory Plant Discovered in Vermont!
How can anyone lose a film factory?
Well it wasn't really lost—it's still there, in Burlington, Vermont. But it was lost to history.