Alice Guy-Blaché

A hapless man tries to get undressed only to find himself magically layered in even more clothes.

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

Tribe from India do various acrobatic exercises. Some dance on a rope stretched at the end of two bamboos stuck in the ground, carry on their ...

Lina Esbrard performs a serpentine dance.

A fighting couple gets interrupted by the landlady.

A wonderful midwife helps a rich couple pick out a baby from her cabbage patch.

A woman shows off her trained dogs.

Silent film

“This funny individual will make you laugh until your sides ache. He is funny in all his actions, yet when he puts on his shoes you can ...

Madame Ondine performs a serpentine dance surrounded by big cats.

A shot of a busy street in Paris is shown in reverse.

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

A turn-of-the-last-century hand-tinted short, which features two women, Miss Lally and Miss Julyett, dancing at a ball. By the legendary French ...

A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other.

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

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.

Butterfly dance.

A landlady is taunted by neighborhood kids.

A dancer personifying Winter, dances in the snow.