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George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin...

An extremely clumsy man tries to clean a woman's house with disastrous results.

Peggy Wilson has recently become an orphan and a ward of the Waston family. She’s also inherited the late Robert Wilson’s vast fortune,...

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

Columbine resists Pierrette's courting in favour of Harlequin in this hand-coloured short by Alice Guy.

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.

A group of kids play in a stream.

A young girl is trying to live an honest life in a crooked city. Caught up with a crook that might be the son of a millionaire and other crooked...

In this story the hero is haunted by a beautiful young woman who tries to stab him to death with a knife. This fantasy recurs on each of his...

Who, apart from moviegoers, knows Alice Guy (1873-1968) today? However, she was the first woman behind the camera and the first female director and...

A magician transforms a tiny dinner table into a full meal for a homeless man.

A landlady is taunted by neighborhood kids.

A re-telling of the classic tale of Faust in all of two minutes by French filmmaker Alice Guy.

The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more than 300 films over 10 years. Frances...

Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city.

A rich man rewards a tramp for defending him from muggers with a large sum of money in the form of a single bank note. Nobody can cash the big bill...

A fighting couple gets interrupted by the landlady.

After the success of his painting "The Empress," artist DeBaudry (William Morse) takes his model, Nedra (Doris Kenyon), to a roadhouse and,...

A woman wearing dragonfly wings performs a romantic dreamlike dance.