{"product_id":"0738329244446-alice-guy-blache-volume-1-the-gaumont-years-dvd1897-1907ff-133bw","title":"ALICE GUY BLACHE Volume 1: The Gaumont Years","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter years of relative obscurity, Alice Guy Blaché is now being recognized for her role in the development of the cinematic arts. Beginning as a typist for the Gaumont Company, she volunteered to produce a series of novelty films. So successful were her films—and so efficient her methods—she eventually became the studio’s head of production. During cinema’s first decade, the multi-talented Guy Blaché experimented with color and synchronized sound (decades before these technologies would be perfected) and cultivated such diverse genres as slapstick comedy, social realism, historical epic, and fantasy. Though rooted in the theatrical style of the Belle Époque, there is a decidedly modern sensibility to her films, as she playfully discovers comic and dramatic potential in the social mores of gender and class. This collection includes films made directly by Guy Blaché at Gaumont, as well a sampling of films produced by others, under her executive supervision (for example, The Birth, the Life, and Death of Christ, 1906).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS INCLUDE:\u003cbr\u003eAt the Hypnotist’s (1898)\u003cbr\u003eWonderful Absinthe (1899)\u003cbr\u003eAt the Photographer’s (1900)\u003cbr\u003eThe Cabbage-Patch Fairy (1900)\u003cbr\u003eTurn-of-the-Century Surgery (1900)\u003cbr\u003eMidwife to the Upper Class (1902)\u003cbr\u003eAlice Guy Films a “Phonoscène” (1905)\u003cbr\u003eThe Results of Feminism (1906)\u003cbr\u003eThe Drunken Mattress (1906)\u003cbr\u003eThe Hierarchy of Love (1906)\u003cbr\u003eMadame Has Her Cravings (1906)\u003cbr\u003eA Sticky Woman (1906)\u003cbr\u003eThe Rolling Bed (1907)\u003cbr\u003eThe Glue (1907) and more!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpecial Features:\u003cbr\u003e- Booklet essay by film historian Kim Tomadjoglou \u003cbr\u003e-Restoration samples\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41016011030625,"sku":"0738329244446","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_8179141_879743_jpg.jpg?v=1722417239","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/0738329244446-alice-guy-blache-volume-1-the-gaumont-years-dvd1897-1907ff-133bw","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}