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Société L. Gaumont et compagnie

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Esmeralda poster
Movie

It was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Esmeralda

Dec 1905

At the Club poster
Movie

Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe. There is no known credited director for this film, although the attribution usually goes for Alice Guy.

At the Club

Jan 1899

The Cabbage-Patch Fairy poster
Movie

A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages.

The Cabbage-Patch Fairy

Mar 1896

How Monsieur Takes His Bath poster
Movie

A hapless man tries to get undressed only to find himself magically layered in even more clothes. There is no credited director for this film. Modern attributions go to either Alice Guy or Ferdinand Zecca, according to the PG archives.

How Monsieur Takes His Bath

Apr 1903

Dance of the Seasons: Winter, Snow Dance poster
Movie

A dancer personifying Winter, dances in the snow. "L'Hiver: Danse de la neige" is the fourth and last film of the series DANSE DES SAISONS. "Le Printemps: Danse des roses", "L'Eté: Danse de la moisson" and "L'Automne: Danse des vendanges" are lost or unlocated.

Dance of the Seasons: Winter, Snow Dance

Jan 1900

The Burglars poster
Movie

Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city. Gaston Breteau filmed the original film in early 1898 for Lumiére, and also the remake in late 1898 for Gaumont.

The Burglars

Jan 1898

Surprise Attack on a House at Daybreak poster
Movie

Soldiers ambush a house. This is the Alice Guy version, not to be confused with the less accessible Lumiere of the same title from the same year.

Surprise Attack on a House at Daybreak

Jan 1898

Disappearing Act poster
Movie

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air. There is no credited director for this film, although three different persons get attributed, Gaston Breteau, Alice Guy or Georges Hatot.

Disappearing Act

Jan 1898

Wonderful Absinthe poster
Movie

Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe. There is no known credited director for this film, although the attribution usually goes for Alice Guy.

Wonderful Absinthe

Jan 1899

The Sock poster
Movie

A man dancing at a party finds one of his socks has fallen down. Retreating where no one can see him, he removes the offending item. the consequences are not long in coming in this very short -- two minutes -- comedy from Alice Guy.

The Sock

Dec 1905

The Cabbage-Patch Fairy poster
Movie

The fairy at a cabbage patch hovers over the babies. This is a remake of Guy's 1896 film on the same subject, this time shot in 35 mm.

The Cabbage-Patch Fairy

Jan 1900

The Turn-of-the-Century Blind Man poster
Movie

A blind man begging for change tries to outsmart a cop. There is no known director for this film, although it is included in the filmography of Alice Guy-Blaché.

The Turn-of-the-Century Blind Man

Jan 1898

Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder poster
Movie

A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other. The director of this film is not credited in any contemporary catalogues or trade publications, or attributed to anyone by scholars or primary sources, however Alice Guy-Blaché is the most probable candidate.

Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder

Jan 1900

Midwife to the Upper Class poster
Movie

A wonderful midwife helps a rich couple pick out a baby from her cabbage patch.

Midwife to the Upper Class

Sep 1902

Madame's Cravings poster
Movie

A pregnant woman steals things from others on account of her cravings.

Madame's Cravings

Aug 1906

Dranem Performs The True Jiu-Jitsu poster
Movie

Armand Dranem performs The True Jiu-Jitsu ("Le Vrai Jiu-Jitsu", by P. Briollet & G. Fabri / C. D'Orviet) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early form of music video was created using a chronophone recording of Dranem, who was then filmed "lip singing". Guy would film phonoscenes of all three major Belle Époque celebrities in France: Polin, Félix Mayol, and Dranem.

Dranem Performs The True Jiu-Jitsu

Jan 1905

At the Photographer's poster
Movie

A client has trouble listening to the photographer's instructions.

At the Photographer's

Jan 1900

Pierrette's Escapades poster
Movie

"Les Fredaines de Pierrette" is the collective name of four short films of 20 meters each ("Arrivée de Pierrette et de Pierrot", "Arrivée d'Arlequin", "Suite de la danse", and "Départ d'Arlequin et de Pierrette"), attributed to Alice Guy (although not confirmed in any primary source), in which Columbine resists Pierrette's courting in favor of Harlequin. From July 1901, the series were made available hand-colored.

Pierrette's Escapades

Jan 1900

The Bricklayers poster
Movie

Starring 'Les Omers' as a bunch of bricklayers causing trouble for the local cops.

The Bricklayers

Aug 1905

Faust poster
Movie

Alice Guy directed a now lost phonoscene (film that relied on a chronophone sound recording that the actors in the film lip-synced with) version of Faust in 22 scenes(or short films) totaling 1245 meter of film. What remains are mostly postcards containing images of some of the scenes. The earliest proof of this film dates from 1905, as it was shown in a Phono Chronomegaphone Theatre in Belgium(stating it had 5 acts and 8 tableaux). The captions of the postcards refer to lines taken from the opera libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré for the 1859 Opera by Charles Gounod(which again was loosely based on Goethe's play) which the film was based on.

Faust

Jan 1905

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