Video of Alice Blache'

 

*The Inspirational Alice Guy Blache'*

                                   
                                                                                                               
           - Blache' exploring cinema                                    
   
   Alice Guy Blache' was history's first female director, who although born in Paris, France on July 1, 1873 was a great part of American culture. Blache' made over 1,000 films and began her own film studio in New Jersey known as, The Solax Studio. Thus far, she is the first and only woman to own and run her own studio plant. 
    
   Blache' was born Alice Ida Antoinette Guy after her mother, who sailed from America back to France to make sure that her child would be born on French soil. As a child she went to a convent school on the French border and at the age of twenty one joined a still-photography company as a secretary to Leon Gaumont. From then, the motion picture camera had just developed. This development caused Blache' to explore cinema in a whole new level. 
   
   Alice's first film was known as the Cabbage Fairy. This movie brought Blache' success and she earned enough money to make a career as a film director in America. She went on to making hundreds of films, but sadly was not generally acknowledged as being the first female film maker. Her story is very inspirational considering the 19th century was a very patriarchal period. Alice Guy Blache' was one of many great women to break the barrier that set women so far apart from men. 

  Links
http://www.biography.com/people/alice-guy-blach%C3%A9-37846#death-and-legacy
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0349785/
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/benatural/be-natural-the-untold-story-of-alice-guy-blache
http://www.aliceguyblache.com/lost-visionary/home