This is a short film about Alice Guy-Blaché, the first female director of fiction in the history of cinema. Alice Guy was Léon Gaumont's secretary at the beginning of the last century and she was the first woman to ever direct actors in ...See moreThis is a short film about Alice Guy-Blaché, the first female director of fiction in the history of cinema. Alice Guy was Léon Gaumont's secretary at the beginning of the last century and she was the first woman to ever direct actors in front of the camera. In 1895, the Lumière brothers introduced to the world the "Cinématographe", the first ever camera. Léon Gaumont decided to sell this revolutionary new device. Fascinated, Alice asked her boss for permission to use the camera to make her own films. Mr. Gaumont agreed under the condition that she "would be able to keep up with her mail." This short-film is a poetic reverie that Alice Guy might have had at the time, wishing for so many challenges in the society in her time.
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