Movies

An alcoholic is inadvertently sewn into a mattress.

A group of kids play in a stream.

A man must marry by noon or lose his inheritance. It's 11:50 a.m. and he can't find his fiancée.

Short film by Alice Guy about a Western love triangle.

George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin...

When Algie Allmore asks to marry Clarice, the young woman's father gives him one year to prove that he's a man.

A turn-of-the-last-century hand-tinted short, which features two women, Miss Lally and Miss Julyett, dancing at a ball. By the legendary French...

Sam the white-washer pines for the affluent Lindy, but she has dumped him in favor of another. Sam finds a large sum of money, and goes to New York...

A landlady is taunted by neighborhood kids.

A dog runs away with a length of sausage. Chaos erupts as the butcher chasing the dog collides with bystanders who angrily follow.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

An abused young woman finds safety and love in the arms of a famous novelist.

A woman wearing dragonfly wings performs a romantic dreamlike dance.

A re-telling of the classic tale of Faust in all of two minutes by French filmmaker Alice Guy.

In this story the hero is haunted by a beautiful young woman who tries to stab him to death with a knife. This fantasy recurs on each of his...

During the Paris Commune, a boy runs across trouble at the barricade.

Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe.

Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city.

Who, apart from moviegoers, knows Alice Guy (1873-1968) today? However, she was the first woman behind the camera and the first female director and...