Alice Guy-Blaché was a trailblazing French director, producer and screenwriter, and the co-founder and artistic director of her own film studio, Solax. She made hundreds of films between 1896 and the 1920s, including the first fictional film with a scripted narrative, La Fée aux Choux (The Cabbage Fairy, 1896).
Guy-Blaché later experimented with early synchronised sound, colour and special effects, often filming on location with hundreds of extras. In 1912 she made A Fool and His Money, widely believed to be the first film to have an all–African American cast.
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Alice Guy-Blaché's The Cabbage-Patch Fairy, the world's first narrative film.
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The Story of the Moving Image → Moving Pictures → MI-04. Materiality → MI-04-C01
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