Name: The Ocean Waif
Director: Alice Guy
Released: 1916
Duration: 39 min
Cast: Edgar Norton, Fraunie Fraunholz, Carlyle Blackwell, Doris Kenyon, William Morris

Edgar Norton

Fraunie Fraunholz

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...

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Tempe Pigott

Miriam Hopkins

Halliwell Hobbes

Fredric March

Rose Hobart

Holmes Herbert

&nbsp;Dr. Jekyll allows his dark side to run wild when he drinks a potion that turns him into the evil Mr. Hyde.

L’âge d’or des studios américains 

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Jean Hersholt

Ramón Novarro

Norma Shearer

Gustav von Seyffertitz

Philippe De Lacy

Bobby Mack

A cloistered, overprotected Austrian prince falls in love with a down-to-earth barmaid in this &quot;Viennese fairy tale.&quot;

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

Vieil Heidelberg

Marian Swayne

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 

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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...

Algie the Miner

Mace Greenleaf

Blanche Cornwall

Magda Foy

Darwin Karr

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

Falling Leaves

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.

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Greater Love Hath no Man

Greater Love Hath No Man

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

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

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)

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

The Consequences of Feminism

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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

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

A Four-Year-Old Heroine

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

Marcel Lévesque

Édouard Mathé

 Musidora

Delphine Renot

Louis Leubas

Fernand Herrman

Gaston Michel

Edmond Bréon

Emile Keppens

Suzanne Le Bret

Jacques Feyder

Françoise Rosay

 Moriss

René Poyen

Alain Resnais évoque Louis Feuillade

Fantômas je pense à vous

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

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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 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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Lillian Gish

Erich von Stroheim

Mae Marsh

Robert Harron

Miriam Cooper

F.A. Turner

Mary Alden

Tod Browning

Walter Long

Tom Wilson

Ralph Lewis

Alma Rubens

Wallace Reid

Douglas Fairbanks

Constance Talamadge

Intolerance and its terrible effects are examined in four historical eras. In ancient Babylon, a mountain girl is caught up in the religious rivalry that leads to the city&#x27;s downfall. In Judea, the hypocritical Pharisees condemn Jesus Christ. In 1572 Paris, unaware of the impending St. Bartholomew&#x27;s Day Massacre, two young Huguenots prepare for marriage. Finally, in modern America, social reformers destroy the lives of a young woman and her beloved.

Intolerance

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Henry Bergman

Edna Purviance

Charlie Chaplin

Eric Campbell

James T. Kelley

In the&nbsp;Mutual Comedies, the tramp evolves in the working world, experiencing several professions, from fireman to machinist.&nbsp;The tramp&nbsp;struggles to find his vocation and finds himself in burlesque situations, which he often provokes and from which he always struggles to get out.

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	<li>The Pawnshop</li>
	<li>Behind the Screen</li>
	<li>The Rink</li>
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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

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 

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Judex - Episode 3 : La Meute fantastique

Judex - Episode 4 : Le Secret de la tombe 

Judex - épisode 5 : Le Moulin tragique 

Judex - Episode 6 : La Môme réglisse

Judex - Episode 7 : La Femme en noir 

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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

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