Name: A Four-Year-Old Heroine
Director: Louis Feuillade & Alice Guy
Released: 1907
Duration: 5 min

A four-year-old saves the&nbsp;day.

A Four-Year-Old Heroine

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Marcel Lévesque

Édouard Mathé

 Musidora

Jean Ayme

Delphine Renot

Stacia Napierkowska

Maurice Luguet

Rita Herlor

Louis Leubas

Fernand Herrman

Alain Resnais évoque Louis Feuillade

Fantômas je pense à vous

Musidora à propos de son personnage d'Irma Vep dans Les Vampires

Fantômas je pense à vous 06/04/1979 : Alain Resnais évoque Louis Feuillade

Philippe Gu&eacute;rande, a reporter, is conducting an investigation on The Vampires, a group of frightening criminals who have perpetrated countless crimes which go unpunished. Despite police action, the gang, headed by the mysterious Irma Vep, has still not been apprehended.

Les Vampires (episodes 1, 2, 3 et 4)

Français

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Gaston Michel

 Thelès

Miss Edith

Laurent Morlas

Renée Carl

Les Vampires (episodes 5 et 6)

Edmond Bréon

Emile Keppens

Suzanne Le Bret

Jacques Feyder

Françoise Rosay

 Moriss

René Poyen

Les Vampires (episodes 7 et 8)

Louise Lagrange

Jeanne Marie-Laurent

Germaine Rouer

 Poupette

Jean-François Martial

 Fridolin

Les Vampires (episodes 9 et 10)

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A heavily pregnant woman has a series of irrepressible cravings while walking with her family.

Madame a des envies

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Billy Quirk

Mary Foy

Algie, a handsome boy from the town, asks for the hand of Harry Lions&#x27; daughter. He accepts on condition that Algie proves himself. Ready to do anything to win her sweetheart, our hero packs his bags and leaves for the mines of the West, far from the comfort of city life. He comes back metamorphosed...

Alice Guy

Lobster Films

Hidden Treasures

Home

Algie the Miner

English

Mace Greenleaf

Blanche Cornwall

Marian Swayne

Magda Foy

Darwin Karr

The moves of a worried young girl trying to save her little sister suffering from tuberculosis.

Falling Leaves

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Romaine Fielding

Vinnie Burns

Ed Brady

In a gold mining concession in New Mexico, two stories intertwine: the love triangle between Harry, Florence and Jake, and the attempted murder of Harry by Mexican gold miners employed and exploited by him.

Note: This western with its palpable dramatic tension is a fierce criticism of the daily xenophobia of the time.

Greater Love Hath no Man

Greater Love Hath No Man

Fraunie Fraunholz

Ruined by an unfortunate financial operation, a young man announces to his fianc&eacute;e that he can no longer marry her. She offers him all her savings to help him rebuild his life, but he refuses. To get him out of his predicament, she comes up with a subtle ploy.

Matrimony's Speed Limit 

Lee Beggs

Ivan Orloff, who beats his wife and trades her as a slave, leaves Eastern Europe to settle in the United States, a land of freedom. There, he has a bitter experience of respect for women, and takes four lessons of &quot;Americanism&quot;.&nbsp;

Note: Feminist and incredibly modern, this film also evokes the conditions of integration of foreigners in the USA (such as Alice Guy) who are under social and economic pressure.

Making an American Citizen

Edgar Norton

Carlyle Blackwell

Doris Kenyon

William Morris

Millie, a young woman abused by her adoptive father, runs away and hides in an isolated house soon to be occupied by the famous novelist Ronald Roberts. She falls in love. But things are not going to be that simple...

The Ocean Waif

A son from a good family is introduced by his parents to a young girl whom they would like to see married. If the girl falls in love with the son immediately, it is unfortunately not the other way around. But when she sees him stealing money from her father while she is asleep in the armchair, she is determined to save him from dishonour.

Note: In this film, Alice Guy innovates and explores the use of depth of field to illustrate the simultaneity of several actions. Another moment of bravery is the nightmarish sequence that powerfully depicts her addiction to gambling through the superimposition of cards encircling the character.

The Girl in the Arm-Chair

Le Trust - 1911 (24 minutes) 
In the series&#39; claimed greyness (the everyday, always the everyday, nothing but the everyday...), and despite its anti-cinematographic subject matter, Le Trust conceals some refreshing scenes and, above all, a sort of aesthetic premonition as to the future of its director.

La Tare - 1911 (41 minutes) 
La Tare is exemplary of Louis Feuillade&#39;s intentions towards the line, both aesthetic and moral, of his collection of films classified under the banner of &quot;Life as it is&quot;, the cinematic equivalent of the novels of Zola and Goncourt.

Le Nain - 1912 (17 minutes) 
Without doubt the most audacious of the series, this film seems, a rare occurrence, to have escaped L&eacute;on Gaumont&#39;s inflexible censorship on subjects deemed &quot;delicate&quot; and likely to shock the public.

La Hantise - 1912 (24 minutes) 
The film of the series that &quot;sticks&quot; the most to the immediate current events of the time. With an astonishing modernity, Feuillade makes one of his best films, often described as an unknown masterpiece.

The scenes "of Life as it is" are unlike anything that has been done so far by the various publishers of the world. They are an attempt at realism that is being brought to the screen for the first time, just as it was years ago in literature, theatre and the arts. It was up to the Société des établissements Gaumont to attempt this essay first; the public will tell us if it succeeded.

Gaumont

Programme Louis Feuillade

Ce programme r&eacute;unit 11 courts m&eacute;trages r&eacute;alis&eacute;s par Alice Guy :&nbsp;La F&eacute;e aux choux, Comment monsieur prend son bain, Le Matelas &eacute;pileptique, Les R&eacute;sultats du f&eacute;minisme, Madame a des envies,&nbsp;Une femme collante, Le Bonnet &agrave; poil, Une h&eacute;ro&icirc;ne de 4 ans,&nbsp;La Naissance, la vie et la mort du Christ, Sur les barricades et&nbsp;Alice Guy tourne une photosc&egrave;ne.

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Première femme cinéaste au monde, Alice Guy a marqué l’histoire du Cinéma. Véritable pionnière, elle débute avec La fée aux choux, dont la première version date de 1896, premier film fantastique de l'histoire du 7e art et première fiction Gaumont. Quelques années plus tard, elle réalise une série de films autour de la vie du Christ et donne naissance au péplum (elle en offrira un remake quelques années après avec La Naissance, la vie et la mort du Christ – 1906, son chef-d’œuvre). C’est elle qui fait rentrer Louis Feuillade chez Gaumont, qui deviendra l’un de ses plus grands auteurs (Fantômas, Les Vampires, Judex). En ayant l’idée de filmer un tournage, elle invente le concept de making of et nous laisse une trace inestimable de l’ambiance des tournages du début du siècle. Ses œuvres abordent aussi plus ou moins en filigrane la question de la place de la femme dans la société du début du XXème siècle, comme Les Résultats du féminisme, Une femme collante et Madame a des envies. Ce ne sont que quelques-uns des nombreux aspects de la très riche carrière de la légendaire Alice Guy, que nous vous proposons dans cette anthologie

« J’entendais, du matin au soir, parler de cinéma. Cependant, les films que l’on projetait n’étaient que des expériences de laboratoire : sorties d’usines, trains en marche, défilés de troupe. Il me semblait qu’on pouvait faire autre chose. M’armant un jour de courage, je demandai à monsieur Gaumont de m’autoriser à écrire et à faire jouer par mes camarades une ou deux saynètes. (…) La permission me fut accordée à condition que cela n’empiète pas sur mon travail de secrétaire. J’eus tôt fait de réunir quelques amis, de choisir mes costumes et d’écrire un semblant de scénario. A côté des ateliers de travaux photographiques, à Belleville, se trouvait un petit jardin, clos par un grand mur. C’est là que je mis en scène mon premier film, La fée aux choux. Je ne vous dirais pas que c’était une merveille ! cependant, si extraordinaire que cela puisse paraître aujourd’hui, ce fut un succès ; si bien que je fus autorisée à renouveler ma tentative. »

Extrait de Alice Guy-Blaché (1873-1968) la première femme cinéaste au monde de Victor Bachy, éditeur Institut Jean Vigo (1993)

Programme Alice Guy

Jeanne Saint-Bonnet

Bout de Zan is a very precocious young man! When the circus comes to town, he does what any kid might do in this situation--he steals the circus&#x27; elephant!!! Later, he sits on the curb with the elephant and begs coins off people--with a sign saying &#x27;blind since birth&#x27;...

Tiny Tim and the Adventures of His Elephant

René Cresté

Yvonne Dario

A twelve part serial following the adventures of the masked vigilante Judex as he fights against criminals led by the corrupt banker Favrauxom.

Judex - Prologue

Yvette Andréyor

Jean Devalde

Judex - épisode 5 : Le Moulin tragique 

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René Navarre

Georges Melchior

Jane Faber

Inspector Juve is tasked to investigate and capture an infamous criminal Fantomas.

Fantômas - Épisode 1 : À l'ombre de la guillotine

In Part Two of Louis Feuillade&#x27;s 5 1/2-hour epic follows Fant&ocirc;mas, the criminal lord of Paris, master of disguise, the creeping assassin in black, as he is pursued by the equally resourceful Inspector Juve.

Fantômas - Épisode 2 : Juve contre Fantômas

André Luguet

After a body disappears from inside the prison, a series of crimes take place, all seemingly by the dead man. With Juve presumed dead, Fandor must investigate alone. Will Fantomas finally be brought to justice?

Fantômas - Épisode 3 : La Mort qui tue

Laurent Morléas

The mystery of the drama is the appearance of the finger-print of a dead artist upon the neck of Princess Sonia Danidoff, whom Fantomas, as Nanteuil, relieves of her pearl necklace, and again on the body of Thomery, a merchant also done to death by the arch villain. Fandor, in the pursuit of his railing, has endeavored to solve the mysteries of these crimes, and eventually recognizes Cranajour, an idiot in the employ of Mother Toulouch, a receiver of stolen goods, as inspector Juve, of the Criminal Investigation Department. They consult together and decide that Nanteuil, the banker, should be called upon. Already suspicious, when Juve finds a glove of skin upon his hand, suspicion becomes certainty, but before they are able to secure the villain, he backs through an unsuspected door in the wall of the room and once again escapes.

Fantômas - Épisode 4 : Fantômas contre Fantômas

Having committed murder in Belgium, Fantomas is sentenced to life imprisonment. Two crimes committed in France suggest to inspector Juve that the Fantomas gang is still at work. He conceives the idea that if Fantomas is set free it will be possible to follow him and capture him and the remaining members of the gang.

Fantômas - Épisode 5 : Le Faux magistrat

Olinda Mano

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A twelve part serial following the adventures of the masked vigilante Judex as he fights against criminals led by the corrupt banker Favrauxom.

Judex - Episode 2 : L’Expiation 

Judex - Episode 3 : La Meute fantastique

Judex - Episode 4 : Le Secret de la tombe 

Judex - Episode 6 : La Môme réglisse

Judex - Episode 7 : La Femme en noir 

Georges Flateau

Judex - Episode 8 : Les Souterrains du Château-Rouge

Judex - Episode 9 : Lorsque l'enfant parut

Judex - Episode 10 : Le Cœur de Jacqueline

Judex - Episode 11 : L'Ondine

Judex - Episode 12 : Le Pardon d'amour

Judex - Episode 1 : L’Ombre mystérieuse

Paul Manson

A young inventor is kidnapped to force him to tell the secret of his invention, but he foils his captors thanks to a pen with invisible ink.

Le Trust

Henri Collen

Anna est serveuse&nbsp;dans un dancing parisien qu&#x27;elle quitte&nbsp;pour travailler dans un h&ocirc;pital caritatif. Au fil des ans, elle se hisse &agrave; la t&ecirc;te de l&#x27;institution, mais lorsqu&#x27;un vieil habitu&eacute; du dancing reconna&icirc;t sa photo, il tente de la faire chanter.&nbsp;La Tare&nbsp;est exemplaire des intentions de Louis Feuillade envers la ligne, tant esth&eacute;tique que morale, de sa collection de films class&eacute;s sous l&rsquo;enseigne de &laquo;&nbsp;la Vie telle qu&rsquo;elle est&nbsp;&raquo;, &eacute;quivalent cin&eacute;matographique des romans de Zola et de Goncourt.

The Defect

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 Delphin

Suzanne Grandais

Marthe Vinot

A manuscript is mysteriously delivered to a playhouse where it is eventually turned into a major hit with critics calling it a masterpiece. The only problem is that no one knows who wrote it. The actress of the play receives a call from the author and the two quickly becomes friends but the man won&#x27;t give any details about himself because he has a secret.

Le Nain

Henri Jullien

Maurice Mathieu

A wife obsesses over the fact that a fortune teller revealed husband&#x27;s voyage to America is doomed, he is booked to sail on the Titanic.

La Hantise

Germaine Serand

Yvonne Serand

The first film directed by a female director, &quot;The Cabbage Fairy&quot; presents a brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. Gently moving through the cabbages and using of lovely gestures, she takes one baby out of there, then makes more magic and delivers two more.

La Fée aux choux

Ferdinand Zecca

An uncharacteristic &quot;trick&quot; film from Alice Guy. The fellow prepares for his bath. And prepares. And prepares.

Comment monsieur prend son bain

Romeo Bosetti

Comedy is benefited by originality. In this Alice Guy short, an alcoholic is inadvertently sewn in to a mattress. With that unique premise, havoc ensues.

The Drunken Mattress

An upper class lady goes to the post office and takes her maid with her to help with the stamp affixing.

A Sticky Woman

A comedy about social convention. A maid allows a soldier into the kitchen triggering, if discovered, potentially embarrassing liaisons.

Le Bonnet à poil

The life of Jesus Christ in 25 scenes.

The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ

A tumultuous time in French history affects the life of one particular man, an innocent bystander swept up in the confusion around him.

L'Enfant de la barricade

Étienne Arnaud

A behind the scenes look at Alice Guy Blanche directing one of her films.

Alice Guy tourne une phonoscène

In a society in which gender roles are switched, will men tolerate being unequal?

The Consequences of Feminism

Alfred Latell

A humongous and obese anthropomorphic swine dressed like a fine gentleman in a fancy dinner attire tries to make a pass at a solitary lady having a picnic.

Restauré par Lobster Films en collaboration avec The Blackhawk Film Collection et l’Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, ce numéro de vaudeville tourné entre deux représentations est longtemps resté une énigme. Que cherche à nous dire cette étrange et désopilante séquence ? Le mystère vient de s’éclaircir, puisqu’un historien du spectacle vivant au début du siècle a découvert le nom de l’auteur de cette routine : Alfred Latell (né Alfred Lee, ca. 1880s-1951), un imitateur animalier aux costumes et mécanismes spectaculaires. Sa carrière dura de 1902 à 1948, où il continuait à faire ses numéros à près de 70 ans. Un voyage dans le temps…

The Dancing Pig

A family troupe of acrobats, made up to appear Japanese, perform various unbelievable stunts in front of the camera, achieved through a trick of the camera.

Restauré par Lobster Films en 2000 avec le concours de la Cinémathèque Française, ce film unique était distribué à l’origine en couleurs, grace au système de coloriage au pochoir. Malheureusement, aucune copie coloriée n’a survécu, à part un très court fragment (quelques images) dans les collections du département de la Charente (à l’époque Collection René Charles). A partir des éléments nitrates originaux noir et blanc, une copie a été tirée et coloriée au pinceau, image par image, par Hélène Bromberg. Trois mois de travail, et un résultat époustouflant. 

Kiri-Kis

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