Lost Garden, The: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-BlachÉ

Synopsis: Biography of Alice Guy-Blaché, the world’s first woman film-maker who, from the moment she saw the Lumière brothers’ first moving picture, fell in love with movies and progressed to director of all productions at the Gaumont Studios. Includes sequences from films she made in France and in Hollywood and extracts from television interviews from the 1960s.
Language: English
Country: Canada
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 53 min.
Year of production: 1995
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Subjects: Media studies
Keywords: biographies; early cinema; film directors; Guy-Blaché, Alice; history of cinema; women in cinema

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